Molly Green
My internship was at the International Center at the University of Bayreuth in Bayreuth, Germany along with the Transkulturelle Kompetenz und Gesundheit (TKG) Projekt, Refugee Housing Centers and the City of Bayreuth. The mission...
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Meet 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 German culture and...
Meet 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 local educators in leading...
Meet 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...
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 Janeiro when she went...
These 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 they served.
Lily Bonadonna, 2014 Wallenberg Fellow, Writes a Letter to Future Wallenberg Fellows
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...
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...
Jennifer 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...
Jesse 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 children under five years...
