International IU Alumni

Ria Vavhal, BFA’23, a two-time Top 100 honoree from Mumbai, discusses finding community while being the only international student in her Herron School of Art and Design program and incorporating Indian tribal art into her coursework.

Second-generation international alumna, Waed Athamneh, PhD’14, returned to her native Jordan to gather heart-wrenching stories from women who escaped civil war in Syria.

Emily Lines, BA’10, has been living in Berlin since 2011. She shares her favorite Berlin haunts in this Q&A.

In September 2018, members of an IU delegation led by IU President Michael A. McRobbie set out from Beijing to the coastal metropolis of Tianjin and to Nankai University, one…