Four years after fleeing her home in Dnipro, Ukraine, Mariia Syzonenko is now set to cross the graduation stage in Plainview.

The native of Dnipro, Ukraine, first came to Plainview after fleeing the instability caused by Russia’s invasion of her homeland. Now she's graduating from Wayland Baptist University.

In September 2021, 15-year-old Iryna Petrovitska made a life-changing decision. She left her home country of Ukraine and traveled more than 5,000 miles to the United States, trading life in the ...

East Tennessee State University held a special virtual ceremony for an international graduate student, a 27-year-old war journalist living in Ukraine who completed his master's degree at home amid the ...

DELAND − After Russia waged a bombing campaign and invasion of her country two years ago, Yana Verbova thought the idea of earning a bachelor's degree from a U.S. university − let alone an Ivy League ...

A woman who was forced to flee war-torn Ukraine has said graduating from university in the UK felt "incredibly special" after what she and her family had been through. Sofia Demkiv left her home in ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Amid the flashes and celebrations of commencement at the University of South Florida, Danylo Solomentsev holds onto the moment a little differently. "What can I say? I'm just lucky to be ...

Graduating international students whose families can’t attend commencement due to travel costs and visa barriers are finding ...