Psychology graduate student Zhen Wu receives Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad

Friday, April 3, 2015

Zhen WuPsychology graduate student Zhen Wu is a 2015 recipient of the prestigious Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad.

Wu is a graduate student in the Department of Psychology, part of the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. She is particularly interested in development science, and her graduate work is supervised by Psychology Professor Julie Gros-Louis.

The $6,000 award is sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Education. It recognizes the academic excellence of self-financed Chinese students studying overseas, selected by invited experts from their fields both in China and in their host country. This year, it was awarded to 500 students studying in 32 countries, out of about 400,000 Chinese students currently studying abroad.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.