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News and Events for the Wallenberg Medal and Lecture, Fellowships, and Summer Travel Awards.
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...
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...
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...
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 Michigan...
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...
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 German culture and...
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 local educators in leading...
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...
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 they served.
