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ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN – Safa Al Ahmad, a Saudi Arabian journalist and documentary filmmaker, will receive the 2019 Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan. She has produced documentaries for the BBC and PBS...
ANN ARBOR—Carly Marten was in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, for a summer project last year when she decided to attend a feminist film festival. She hired a cab for the drive...
Carol spent her summer in Zanzibar studying its tourism as a consumption service. Specific focus included the impacts on local communities, natural ecosystems, and economies. Her work delves into the deeper interconnections between ecotourism...
Anudeeta spent six weeks in Uganda (specifically the cities of Lubowa and Kampala) during the summer of 2018 interning at an HIV clinic, the Joint Clinical Research Centre. For the past two years, Anudeeta...
Jordyn completed the RARO Artist Residency Program in Buenos Aires during the months of May and June 2018. During her residency, she worked in three different studios to complete her painting and video installation...
Elizabeth complete a summer internship in Tel Aviv, Israel working with an urgent care clinic that served asylum seekers and undocumented migrant workers. She worked with clinic staff to analyze medical record data to...
Jordan used the Isabel Bagramian Travel Award to work with the Grenada Ministry of Social Development, Housing and Community Development to establish the groundwork needed for the Ministry to generate recommendations guiding future policy...
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN – Two youth advocacy groups that are focused on ending gun violence in their communities will be awarded the 2018 Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan. The winners of this...
On November 14 at 7:30 p.m. the 2018 Wallenberg Medal was presented to youth activists from March For Our Lives (Parkland, FL) and The B.R.A.V.E. Youth Leaders (Chicago, IL) for their fight against gun...
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....
