Ryan Thomas
Biomedical Engineering I lived in two areas of the Dominican Republic this summer, conducting needs assessment through interviewing physicians, clinicians, patients and other community members as well...
View ArticleLucia Michelazzo Ceroni
Nursing This summer I had the opportunity to work with La Matria, an Argentinean non-profit organization that aims to better society through empowering individuals and communities. The empowerment...
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Neuroscience This summer I was able to set up a program to help women who are afflicted with obstetric fistula in the rural communities of Kashongi and Kitura in western Uganda. Obstetric fistula is a...
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Master’s Student, Social Work and Public Health This summer I interned at Clínica de Familia La Romana (CFLR), a clinic located in the eastern region of the Dominican Republic. CFLR provides a wide...
View ArticleKatherine Finn
Ph.D. Candidate, Nursing I had the opportunity to spend two months in Kampala, Uganda working with a multi-disciplinary research collaboration called Global Health Uganda. I joined an established...
View ArticleJesse Contreras
Master’s Student, Public Health in Global Health Epidemiology I spent this summer leading a study in central Mexico on the association between exposure to untreated wastewater and diarrheal disease in...
View ArticleJennifer Bourlier
Computer Science This summer I was given the opportunity to work with an organization called Hogar CREA in Costa Rica. I worked with boys aged 10-18 that have had previous problems with drugs. As the...
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The 2015 Wallenberg Summer Travel Awardees
While a student at the University of Michigan in the 1930s, Raoul Wallenberg traveled across North America to observe and learn from people of all kinds on their own terms. This experience helped him...
View ArticleLily Bonadonna, 2014 Wallenberg Fellow, Writes a Letter to Future Wallenberg...
The night before I arrived in Peru, August 8, 2014, I was quieter than usual. I am quiet when I feel scared or nervous. The last time I had been in the country, I was ten years old and then I had my...
View ArticleThese People Can Make a Difference: The Wallenberg Summer Travel Award Students
Seven University of Michigan students traveled abroad last year thanks to the Wallenberg Summer Travel Award. Their experiences were transformative and they had a powerful impact on the communities...
View ArticleArtistic activism in India
Wallenberg fellow to explore the power of art to change society.
View ArticleMeet Kaylla Cantilina, a 2016 Wallenberg Summer Travel Awardee
Kaylla is a member of BLUElab, and is in the second year of a project in Dolatpura, a rural village in India. She is in India to work with rural communities by providing stoves that will improve the...
View ArticleMeet Margaret Shope, 2016 Wallenberg Summer Travel Awardee
Margaret is working in partnership with the international volunteer organization, UBELONG, at a youth sports center this summer in Cusco, Peru. During her 49 day experience, Margaret will be assisting...
View ArticleMeet Molly Green, 2016 Summer Travel Awardee
Molly is a non traditional U-M student working with the University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth Germany, on a project coordinating an extensive effort to assist recent migrants to adapt and integrate into...
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2016, Meredith Starkman
Written by William Foreman, originally published by Global Michigan. Meredith Starkman says one of the most emotionally trying experiences of her life happened on an education-abroad trip to Rio de...
View ArticleMolly Green
Public Health “My time spent working with Syrian refugees in Germany this summer has given me insight not just into their health needs, but also into their lives as they adjust to living in a new...
View ArticleJohn Shaver
Nursing “I have been privileged to spend the last several weeks working with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) here in South Africa. I, along with another student from the University of...
View Article2016 Wallenberg Fellow, Meredith Starkman, Begins Her Journey
Meredith reports, “Writing to you live from Bangalore! Flight and transportation went well and my first month here has been a whirlwind. I haven’t written or recorded as much as I would like but am...
View ArticleBryan Stevenson to Receive Wallenberg Medal
The 2016-2017 Wallenberg Medal will be awarded to civil rights lawyer and social justice activist Bryan Stevenson on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rackham Auditorium on the University of...
View ArticleResource Toolkit for the 25th Wallenberg Medal and Lecture
About the Lecture March 7, 2017 at 7:30 pm Rackham Auditorium Watch live Download a PDF of the Resource Toolkit for the 25th Wallenberg Medal and Lecture The Wallenberg Lecture is free and open to the...
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