2018, Meagan Malm
2018, Meagan Malm: Breaking Down Social Barriers Written by Mandira Banerjee, originally published by Global Michigan When Meagan Malm was a freshman at the University of Michigan, she had to choose a language requirement....
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2017, Adelia Davis
Written by Mandira Banerjee, originally published by Global Michigan. Adelia Davis was a freshman at the University of Michigan the year Nelson Mandela died. Listening to his obituary on CNN in her dorm room,...
Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist Art Exhibition
The exhibition will be on display from Feb. 7 through March 12, 2018, in the Duderstadt Center Gallery on U-M’s north campus. Ann Arbor, MI | January 15, 2018 Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist celebrates the remarkable...
Keem Avraham
This summer, I had the opportunity to work as the Executive Intern with the Broadway Dreams Foundation, a not for profit arts organization dedicated to arts education and musical theatre around the world. With...
Rachel Jonassen Bittman
Over the summer in 2017, I had the opportunity to travel to Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda, to spend three and a half months working with a breast cancer initiative. I worked with...
Daphne Cheng
Daphne Cheng worked with the Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children and local health organizations in the province of Cavite in the southern Philippines. She was part of a team helping a group...
Moustafa El-Kashlan
I spent my summer in Beira, Mozambique working on research to evaluate the impacts of different health, economic, and educational HIV interventions for orphans and vulnerable children. This was my first time in a...
Joshua Flink
Over the summer, I volunteered in Delhi, India for four weeks and worked at an organization called PORDAC (Protection of the Rights of Differently Abled Children). This opportunity was made possible both by the...
Hayden Hedman
I spent the summer finalizing a twelve-month longitudinal field epidemiological study within northwestern Ecuador (province Esmeraldas). Interestingly, this region has been isolated from most of the continent until recent highway development within the last...
Frederick Newing
Frederick Newing volunteered at an orphanage in Arusha, Tanzania. Because of the high rate of HIV/AIDS infections and other illnesses, many children are being fostered by relatives. Orphanages alleviate the strain on families with...
Sofia Squatriti
This summer, I worked as a French and Italian teacher for adult refugees at the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center in Rome, Italy. The JNRC is a day center where 250 refugees and asylum-seekers gather...
