Wallenberg Fellow plans to head back to Greenland
Author: Wallenberg Committee
Muriel Bassil, Isabel Bagramian Travel Award
Through her internship with the FlüGe Project, housed at the School of Public Health at Bielefeld University, Muriel’s goal was to understand refugee health, and to learn more about public health research using biostatistics and computer software. She analyzed and interpreted data on health behaviors and nutritional status, developed a research question, and wrote a…
Daisy Johnson
This past summer, Daisy spent a month in Bali, Indonesia, capturing the story of a man named Darmawan and his fight to preserve the centuries-old practice of living in harmony with nature in the wake of increasing plastic pollution. Through his organization, Keep Bali Beautiful, Darmawan has been working to spread the message to recycle…
Angie Miller
Over the summer of 2019, Angie was in Yangon, Myanmar with the organization, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). IPA is a nonprofit that creates and evaluates solutions to social development problems, and works to scale up successful ideas through implementation and dissemination to policymakers, practitioners, investors, and donors. At IPA, she worked on a variety…
2019, Safa Al Ahmad
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN – Safa Al Ahmad, a Saudi Arabian journalist and documentary filmmaker, received the 2019 Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan. She has produced documentaries for the BBC and PBS about uprisings in the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Her 2014 BBC documentary, Saudi’s Secret Uprising, brought attention to…
Carly Marten — the 2019 Wallenberg Fellow
Listening to Survivors of Sexual Assault, Wallenberg Fellow to Follow Survivors in Ethiopia on Their Journey for Justice
Carol Maione
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 and degradation of the local environment by researching the contributions of the tourism industry to waste generation locally and ocean plastic…
Anudeeta Gautam
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 has been working on a research project that aims to build an all-encompassing lifestyle and mental health app for HIV-positive adolescents,…
Jordyn Fishman
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 project. Her intentions during this experience were to challenge her own work by way of new mediums and concepts. She is…
Elizabeth Moran
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 determine the most common diagnoses and how they had changed since the clinic opened in 2013. This work will help inform…