Wallenberg Fellowship

  1. March 25, 2024

    Wallenberg Fellow encourages sociocultural awakening in Brazil

    Saige Porter, the recipient of the 2024 Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship, plans to study the complex systems and policies working to perpetuate social inequality in Brazil.

  2. April 24, 2023

    Taubman grad to study Mexico City sustainability

    Meghana Tummala was recently awarded a Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship, which provides $25,000 for an independent project of learning or exploration anywhere in the world during the year after graduation.

  3. February 20, 2023

    Wallenberg Fellow’s drawings illustrate climate change in Mexico

    Meghana Tummala, an undergraduate at the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, is the winner of the 2023 Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship.

  4. March 21, 2022

    Wallenberg Fellow to research realities of exploited Rwandan women, girls

    Graduating senior Chloe Hale has been named the 2022 Raoul Wallenberg Fellow. The award will allow her to spend the next year exploring how health crises affect the education of women and girls in Rwanda.

  5. September 20, 2021

    Wallenberg Fellowship celebrates a decade of making a difference

    In its 10 years of existence, the Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship at U-M has become one of the most prestigious self-designed, independent study-abroad projects for students.

  6. April 28, 2020

    Wallenberg Fellow plans to head back to Greenland

    Abigail Meyer, a computer science engineering student, won the $25,000 Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship Award for 2020 and will spend a year in Greenland once U-M travel restrictions are lifted.

  7. April 26, 2019

    Wallenberg Fellow to work with sexual assault survivors in Ethiopia

    Carly Marten is the 2019 recipient of U-M’s Wallenberg Fellowship, given each spring to a graduating senior with exceptional accomplishment for service to the public good.

  8. March 22, 2018

    Wallenberg Fellow to study whether mobile phones ease poverty

    U-M’s 2018 Wallenberg Fellowship recipient Meagan Malm plans to study the role mobile phones play in reducing poverty in Tanzania.

  9. March 22, 2017

    Wallenberg Fellow to use children’s stories to pursue social justice

    LSA senior Adelia Davis has been selected as this year’s Wallenberg Fellow, which is given each spring to a graduating senior with exceptional promise and accomplishment to service and the public good.

  10. March 9, 2015

    Architecture senior wins Wallenberg Fellowship to study refugee camps

    Architecture student Bjørnar Haveland will be awarded the 2015 Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship to support his study of and work to improve two of the world’s oldest refugee camps.