International Institute

  1. September 11, 2024

    Activist Bassey stresses shared humanity in Wallenberg Lecture

    Nnimmo Bassey — architect, poet and African environmental activist — accepted U‑M’s 2024 Wallenberg Medal for his outstanding humanitarian work, declaring, “We are part of nature, not apart from it.”

  2. July 2, 2024

    International Institute names von Moltke interim director

    Johannes von Moltke, the Rudolf Arnheim Collegiate Professor of German Studies and Film, Television, and Media in LSA, will serve as the International Institute’s interim director through June 30, 2025.

  3. December 13, 2023

    Remembering LSA assistant professor Xiaohong Xu

    Xiaohong Xu, assistant professor of sociology and associate director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, died Dec. 12 after a long struggle with cancer. He was 45 years old.

  4. July 6, 2023

    Lucas Benitez, farmworker leader, to receive Wallenberg Medal

    Lucas Benitez, co-founder of the Florida-based labor and human rights organization the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, will receive the 2023 Wallenberg Medal from U-M.

  5. September 12, 2022

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  6. September 8, 2022

    Russian journalist comes to U-M under new WCED fellowship

    Elena Milashina, an award-winning Russian journalist, has joined the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies as its inaugural Freedoms Under Fire Residency Fellow.

  7. March 3, 2022

    U-M tops public universities for Fulbright student awards

    U-M students and faculty scholars were offered 25 Fulbright grants to fund overseas work for the 2021-22 academic year. The university is among the top-producing institutions in the country.

  8. November 11, 2021

    Ann Chih Lin named Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies director

    Ann Chih Lin has been appointed director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, one of the nation’s most prominent centers devoted to a deeper understanding of China, past and present.

  9. March 24, 2021

    CWPS marking 20 years as U-M’s hub for performance studies

    U-M’s Center for World Performance Studies is launching a series of events to mark the 20th anniversary of its grand opening at the International Institute on March 30, 2001.

  10. February 19, 2021

    U-M among nation’s top Fulbright-producing institutions

    U-M students and faculty scholars were offered 40 Fulbright grants for the 2020-21 academic year. The university is among the top producing institutions in the country for both programs.