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: 2019
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…