2014, Agnes Heller
On September 30, the 2014 Wallenberg Medal is being awarded to Agnes Heller, a distinguished philosopher and Holocaust survivor who seeks to understand the nature of ethics and morality in the modern world, and...
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Implementing School Newspapers in Amman, Jordan
Ms. Dana Del Vecchio, an LS&A student majoring in Near Eastern Studies is a Wallenberg Summer Travel Awardee spending her summer in Amman, Jordan. There, she is working on a project that she has...
New U-M President Schlissel recognizes the heroism of Wallenberg at his first Board of Regents meeting
None has made a more lasting impact than Raoul Wallenberg, who came here from Sweden and graduated in 1935. We should never forget his heroics in saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from death during...
Report From the Field: A Wallenberg Student Shares His Journey in Germany
Stuart Richardson is a dual-concentrator in German and International Studies and a member of the LSA Honors Program, the Residential College, and the Barger Leadership Institute. As a recipient of a 2014 Wallenberg Summer...
A Lifelong Journey of Service: How one University of Michigan Alum Found Inspiration Through His Summer Global Experience
“My baseline has changed.” David Witte, U-M 2010 alum, says when talking about re-entry after his years in the Peace Corps. “Re-entry had been kind of a whirlwind. People say going into the Peace...
Spring Updates
The University holds the achievements of this esteemed alumnus and humanitarian to be among the most important ideals we can embody, and students with these exceptional characteristics have been active on campus and around the world. This newsletter showcases the many ways U-M is honoring humanitarians and engaging young people to understand the human condition and make the world a better place. We hope you find them as inspiring as we do.
2014-2015 Summer Travel Award Recipients Announced
Five undergraduates and one graduate student were selected to receive the 2014 Summer Travel Awards. These awards allow selected students to take part in a community service project or civic participation anywhere in the...
2014, Lily Bonadonna
This article originally appeared in the University Record on March 17, 2014. The $25,000 Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship Award for 2014 has been presented to LSA senior Lily Bonadonna, to study the social causes of...
23rd Raoul Wallenberg Lecture
The 23rd Wallenberg Lecture will be presented in the fall of 2014. More information on the medal recipient will be available in the coming months.
Lucy Zhao
I spent my summer with The Kenya Project, a program I started my freshman year that brings an interdisciplinary group of University of Michigan undergraduates to Kithoka, Kenya to partner with locals to start...
Layne Vandenberg
This past June, I traveled to Meru, Kenya to continue working on a grassroots, social entrepreneurship and human-centered design experiment called “The Kithoka Soap Initiative” (TKSI). I originally laid the foundation for TKSI in...
