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…
Category: Summer Travel Awardees
The Wallenberg International Summer Travel Award allows selected students to take part in a community service project or civic participation anywhere in the world.
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…
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…
Jordan Mizell
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 decisions and the improvement of health services that the Ministry provides to their elderly population on a large scale. In order…
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 Broadway Dreams Foundation, I traveled to Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, Aspen, Charlotte, Philadelphia, and Toronto, Canada and facilitated arts workshops…
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 the Breast Cancer Initiative of East Africa (BCIEA), a small nonprofit with a goal to promote awareness and education of breast…