Over $577,000 to Fund Student Research and Internships Abroad
The International Institute and the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan awarded $577,350 in support of international research and internships to 172 students through 18 funding opportunities. Students will travel abroad between May 2019 and May 2020 to conduct research or serve internships in 81 countries.
Research projects range from: monitoring water quality in Mexico to studying female infertility in Tanzania, from researching public housing developments in China to mapping public spaces in Moscow. Internships will be with organizations including the U.S. State Department, museums, law offices, and NGOs.
The 2019 funding categories, grantees, degrees, locations, and internship or research projects, are:
International Institute Individual Fellowship: supports U-M students who are enrolled in a degree program and wish to participate in internships or conduct research abroad.
Souad Ali, MPH health behavior and health education, Lebanon: “Older Syrian Refugees’ Inclusion in the Humanitarian Response in Lebanon”
Joumana Altallal, MA English, Iraq: “Inhabiting the Hereafter: Poetry of Care in Basra's Salt Marshes”
Asmah Amirkhani, MPH epidemiology, Ethiopia: “Epidemiology of TB among the Prisoner Population of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”
Evan Binkley, BA history of art, Ghana: multidisciplinary summer field school and internship with Elmina Castle
Samet Budak, PhD Middle East studies, Egypt: “Intellectual Networks and Trends in Late-Mediaeval Eastern Mediterranean”
Samuel Canfield, BA international studies, Ecuador: community development and social entrepreneurship internship
Mario Chacon Arias, MFA dance, France / Jordan / Costa Rica: “Migrare”
Yun Chen, PhD social work / anthropology, China: “How Social Work Changes Anti-Addiction Interventions in Post-Maoist China”
Paloma Contreras, PhD anthropology, Mexico: “Water Quality, Public Trust, and Health in Mexico City”
Chantal Croteau, PhD anthropology, Thailand: “(Re)Creating Home: Muslim Identity and Belonging in Southern Thailand”
Jordon Drohner, MSW interpersonal practice in health, Australia: global field internship
Miranda Garcia, PhD anthropology, Cuba: “Independent Advertising in Cuba: A Lens on Economic and Social Change”
Zachary Gersten, PhD nutritional sciences, Ghana: “Exploring Fisheries to Nutrition in Ghana”
Emma Grife, BBA finance / entrepreneurship, the Netherlands: internship with Sage Corp Global
Ciara Hancock, BA women's studies, South Africa: internship with Experiential Learning Abroad
Mary Kay Hazel, MSW social work, Israel: internship with municipality of Haifa
Ruoyu Huang, PhD psychology, China: “Mandarin-Speaking Children's Learning of English Grammar from Animations”
Marie Kaniecki, MPH epidemiology, Israel: “Characterization of Water and Sanitation Access in Bedouin Communities”
Kim Karlsrud, MFA studio art, India: “Ecologies of Elsewhere: Examining Accidental Landscapes in Indian Megacities”
Emily Korman, MURP urban and regional planning, Ethiopia: “Analyzing and Implementing Green Infrastructure in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”
Lucas Koutsoukos Chalhoub, PhD history, Brazil: “The President and the Rabble: Vargas and Race in 1950s Rio de Janeiro”
Madel Leal, MSI information, Ecuador: internship with History Project, Nido De Vida
Erin McKenna, MFA art, Japan: “Japanese Physical and Metaphysical Relation between Body, Object, and Space”
Jonathan Morris, PhD environment and sustainability, Mexico: “Biodiversity, Interaction Complexity, and Pest Control in Coffee”
Megan O'Brien, MPH health behavior and health education, Benin: internship for health policy and reproductive health access
Ethan Pattison, BSE mechanical engineering, Bangladesh: internship
Alexandra Pejas, BA economics / international studies, Canada: political internship in Ottawa
Maria Pensa, PhD Romance languages and literatures, Argentina / Paraguay: “Writing the War: Official Discourse in Colonial Settlement of the Chaco”
Kelli Peterman, MPH epidemiology, Ecuador: internship
Emily Pfleiderer, MS environmental policy and planning, Chile: “Modeling Circular Urban Metabolism in Chilean Cities”
Kate Powers, JD law, Switzerland: internship with the International Law Commission
Lu Qu, PhD movement science, China: “Alleviation Stress in Parents of Autism via Family-Centered Intervention”
JoAna Rusche, PhD voice, India: “The Holistic Pedagogical Practices of Carnatic Music”
Abigail Shotwell, MPH epidemiology, Tanzania: “The Geographic Distribution of HPV and Cervical Cell Dysplasia in Tanzania”
Neetu Singh, MPP public policy, India: internship with Pratham Foundation
Sarah Thornburgh, MPH epidemiology, Ghana: “Formative Research to Understand Female Infertility in Kumasi, Ghana”
Maki Usui, MSW social work, Greece: internship with Ritsona Refugee Camp
Mai Ze Vang, MA Southeast Asian studies, Thailand: “Ethnic Minority Women Accessing Citizenship in Thailand”
Sarah Warnez, BSN nursing, Uganda: “Men's Sexual and Reproductive Health Education Program”
Maxwell Weng, BSE computer science engineering, China: “Vitamin SPEECH: Helping Stroke Survivors Communicate in Shanghai, China”
Daniel Wilkinson Wong Gonzales, PhD linguistics, Philippines: “Wh-Questions in Philippine Hybrid Hokkien: A Preliminary Investigation”
Rachel Willis, MA transcultural studies, Martinique: “Black Women and the Press in 20th Century Brazil and the French Caribbean”
Jackie Wrage, PhD earth and environmental sciences, Germany: “Magma Mixing Diffusion-Couple Experiments Unraveling Metal Transport”
Yvonne Wu, BS public health, Ethiopia: “Water Distribution in Addis Ababa”
Weican Zuo, PhD architecture, China: “Public Housing Development in China: From an Interpretive Approach
Rackham International Research Award: supports international research by students in Rackham programs.
Phoebe Aron, PhD earth and environmental sciences, Peru: “Spatiotemporal Variability of Water Cycling in Southern Peru”
Hayley Bowman, PhD history, Spain / Italy: “Visualizing Physical and Spiritual Landscapes”
Andrew Cabaniss, PhD classical art and archaeology, Greece: “Household Decisions and Community Uniqueness in the Classical Aegean”
Sofia Carrera, PhD psychology, Ethiopia: “Early-Life Adversity: Maternal Effects on a Wild Primate”
Christine Chalifoux, PhD anthropology, Uganda: “‘Called’ to Adopt: Evangelical Christianities and Creative Kinships”
Anne Marie Creighton , PhD anthropology, Peru: “Linguistic Diversity in the Colca Valley, Present and Seventeenth Century”
Lisa Veronica Decenteceo, PhD musicology, Philippines: “Contesting Indigeneity: Igorot Festivals and Music-Cultural Subjectivities”
Rebecca Dzombak, PhD earth and environmental sciences, Iceland / Denmark / Scotland / Wales: “High-Latitude Soils’ Response to Past and Present Climate Change”
Duygu Ergun, PhD comparative literature, Germany: “Transnational Politics of Photographic Images in the Turkish-German Context”
Leon Espira, PhD epidemiology, Mexico: “Urban Wastewater Reuse and Disease Risk in the Mezquital Valley, Mexico”
Yuequan Guo, PhD political science, China: “Protest in Autocracy with Capacity: Workers’ Collective Action in China”
Kathryn Holihan, PhD Germanic languages and literatures, Germany / Austria / Hungary / Croatia: “Staging the Somatic: The Popular Hygiene Exhibition in Germany, 1882-1931”
Shalmali Jadhav, PhD comparative literature, South Africa: “In 'Other Tongues': Towards Multi-Tongued Conceptions of Feminist Theories”
Cara Janusz, PhD epidemiology, Kenya: “Impact of New Vaccine Introduction on Childhood Immunization in Kenya”
Diana Jue-Rajasingh, PhD strategy, Kenya / Rwanda / Uganda: “Developing Clean Cookstove and Fuel Markets in East Africa”
Heeyun Kim, PhD higher education, South Korea: “A Saga in College Admissions: Policy Borrowing of Holistic Admissions”
Sean Kramer, PhD history of art, England / France: “Martial Madness: Picturing the Soldier in France and Britain, 1871-1914”
Brenna Larson, PhD history of art, Italy / France: “The Prestige of the Foreign in Genoese Devotional Painting, 1460-1528”
Dominic Liao-McPherson, PhD aerospace engineering, France: “Optimization-Based Autonomous Parafoil Control”
Cindy Kaiying Lin, PhD information, Indonesia: “Algorithms against Deforestation: Automating Regulation in Indonesia”
Ruby MacDougall, PhD Asian languages and cultures, China: “Researching Dance Forms and Cultural Production Indigenous to Kunming”
Jamie MacLennan, PhD applied physics, India: “Production of a Ultracold Sample of Sr Atoms for Plasmon-Polariton Coupling”
Erin McKenna, MFA fine art, Japan: “Japanese Physical and Metaphysical Relation between Body, Object, and Space”
Mario Medina, PhD mechanical engineering, Spain: “Investigation of Chemically Reacting High-Pressure Gasoline Sprays”
Nicholas Medina, PhD ecology and evolutionary biology, Mexico: “Microbial Meta-Community Dynamics in Structured Tropical Agroforest Soils”
Lindsay Michocki, PhD chemistry, France: “Novel Multimodal Probes of Biological Structure and Function”
Thomas Morgan, PhD ecology and evolutionary biology, Guyana: “Phylogeography of Cichlid Fishes in the Essequibo River and Rupununi Portal”
Sauda Nabukenya, PhD history, Uganda: “The High Court and Uganda's Legal History, ca. 1900-1989”
Emily Nagy, MS environmental health sciences, Trinidad and Tobago: “Assessment of Water Treatment Technologies for Disaster Preparedness in Trinidad and Tobago”
Yuki Nakayama; PhD film, television, and media; Japan: “The Core of Television: The History of Japanese Variety Programs, 1953-2000”
Swapna Nelaballi, PhD anthropology, Indonesia: “Impacts of Hunting on Interactions between Fruiting Trees and Frugivores”
Mara Page, MA earth and environmental sciences, Kenya: “Understanding the Climatic Context for the Emergence of Humans in Kenya”
Naivedya Parakkal, PhD educational studies, India: “(Un)Learning Local Epistemologies: Paradox of Education in the Anthropocene”
Eitan Paul, PhD public policy / political science, Indonesia: “Elite-Driven Development? Accountability in Village Budgeting in Indonesia”
Julia Porth, PhD epidemiology, Kenya: “Utilization of Maternal and Child Health Services among Migrants in Kenya”
Lauren Pratt, PhD anthropology, Peru: “Searching for the Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of Chachapoyas, Peru”
Hannah Roussel, PhD history, Israel: “Mental Disability and Illness in Ancient Rabbinic Literature”
Megan Ryan, PhD political science, Myanmar: “Can Media Literacy Training Decrease Hate Speech Vulnerability in Myanmar?”
Sangita Saha, PhD history / women's studies, India / Bangladesh: “Women, Consumption and Making of Middle Class in 19th and 20th Century Bengal”
Elvin Salerno, PhD chemistry, France / Portugal: “Temperature Dependent Magneto-Electronics of Metallacrowns and Applications”
Moira Saltzman, PhD linguistics, Japan / South Korea: “A History of Jejueo”
Cristina Salvador, PhD social psychology, Colombia / Ecuador: “Varieties of Interdependence across the Globe: The Case of Latin America”
Kimberly Sanchez, PhD anthropology, Mongolia: “Property and Human-Animal Relations in Post-Socialist Mongolia”
Omri Senderowicz, PhD anthropology / history, Israel: “Privatization in an Israeli Kibbutz”
Richard Smith, PhD musicology, Israel: “Did You Hear That Cross Drag?: Queer Musical Echoes in Tel Aviv Nightlife”
Jonathan Sullivan, PhD environment and sustainability, Tanzania: “Agricultural Transitions: Land-Use Change Outcomes of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Tanzania”
Xin Sun, PhD psychology, China: “How Do Bilingual Children Acquire Literacy? An fNIRS Study in US and China”
Taru Taru, PhD urban planning, Ghana / India: “Procedural Planning in Post-Colonial Cities Facing Structural Conflict”
Moniek van Rheenen, PhD anthropology, Indonesia: “Mothers for Allah: Voicing Gender, Piety, and Agency in Indonesia”
Saranyaraajan Varadarajan; PhD molecular, cellular and developmental biology; England: “Role
of Stretch-Activated Calcium Channel in Remodeling of Tight Junctions”
Rosa Vasquez, PhD chemical biology, Peru: “MicroAmazon: The Hidden World of Amazonian Extremophiles”
Xuan Wang, PhD economics, China: “Salience of Indirect Tax and Attitudes towards Tax and Public Policy”
Anna Wozny, PhD sociology, Japan: “The Cultural and Economic Logic of Marriage-Hunting in Contemporary Japan”
Nicole Wu, PhD political science, China: “Mass Attitudes toward Automation in China”
Felix Zamora-Gomez, PhD Romance languages and literatures, Spain: “Bringing the Heritage of the State to Light: Poetics of Political Opposition”
African Studies Center Research or Internship Support in Africa: open to U-M students wishing to pursue summer or semester-long projects or internships with businesses and institutions in Africa.
Hollie Adejumo, PhD civil and environmental engineering, Ethiopia: “Disinfection Byproducts and Human Carcinogenesis in Addis Ababa”
Asmah Amirkhani, MPH epidemiology, Ethiopia: “Epidemiology of TB among the Prisoner Population of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”
Timothy Berke, PhD urban planning, Uganda: “The Effects of Land Provisions for Refugees in Northern Uganda”
Evan Binkley, BA history of art, Ghana: multidisciplinary summer field school and internship with Elmina Castle
Sargeant Donovan-Smith, PhD anthropology / history, Liberia: “A Post-War (Re)Turn to School: Liberians and Higher Ed in the 21st Century”
Brian Grace, JD law, Namibia: internship in law development and reform
Temisan Hambraeus, BBA finance, Nigeria: “Emerging Market Private Equity: Value Creation in the Nigerian Market”
Diana Jue-Rajasingh, PhD strategy, Kenya / Rwanda / Uganda: “Developing Clean Cookstove and Fuel Markets in East Africa”
Lamin Manneh, PhD history, Gambia / England: “Constructing Muslim Space: Mosques and Migrants in Gambia 1900-1950”
Hyuri McDowell, MPH health behavior and health education, Kenya: internship with Wema Centre
Comfort Tamanda Mtotha, PhD history, Malawi: “A History of Collectors and Collections in Museums of Malawi-20th Century”
Sauda Nabukenya, PhD history, Uganda: “The High Court and Uganda's Legal History, ca. 1900-1989”
Alexandra Norwood, PhD anthropology, South Africa: “Seasonality and Behavioral Modernity in South Africa during the MSA/LSA”
Maxwell Otiato, BA biology / international studies, Uganda: “Chronic Disease Self-Care Programs among Young People in Uganda”
Mara Page, MA earth and environmental sciences, Kenya: “Understanding the Climatic Context for the Emergence of Humans in Kenya”
Courtney Petersen, JD law, Namibia: internship with international law and development
Jonathan Sullivan, PhD environment and sustainability, Tanzania: “Agricultural Transitions: Land-Use Change Outcomes of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Tanzania”
Taru Taru, PhD urban planning, Ghana / India: “Procedural Planning in Post-Colonial Cities Facing Structural Conflict”
Fantasia Williams, MPH epidemiology, Uganda: “Implementation and Evaluation of Water Filter Distribution in Rural Uganda”
Armenian Studies Program Haigaosh Mengushian/Ajemian Memorial Student Travel Award: provides funding for undergraduate and graduate student travel and study abroad related to Armenian studies.
Swathi Gopala Krishna Shetty, MPH nutritional sciences, Armenia: “Supplementary Food for Children in Armenia to Combat Undernutrition”
Arakel Minassian; MA Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies; Armenia / Lebanon / Turkey: “Contemporary Literature in the Centres of Armenian Culture”
Annika Topelian, BA linguistics, Armenia / Hungary: “Acquisition of Western Armenian as a Heritage Language”
Center for European Studies Jean Monnet Fellowship: supports graduate student research on Europe and European integration.
Luiza Duarte Caetano, PhD comparative literature, France: “Friend or Foe: Notions of Foreignness During the Terror in France”
Center for European Studies Summer Research and Internship Grant: supports undergraduate and graduate student summer research or internships for projects about Europe and European integration.
Marina David, PhD physics, Italy: “Holography and its Applications”
Mia Delano, MS environmental health science, Switzerland: internship working with vaccine delivery and climate preparedness
Angela Feak, PhD anthropology, Germany: “Excavation at Hohle Fels Cave”
Marisol Fila, PhD Romance languages and literatures, Portugal: “Lisbon's Black Press: Past and Present” Banesa Hernandez, MHI health informatics, Spain: internship with Anaxomics
Anil Menon, PhD political science, Northern Ireland: “The Shadow of the Past”
Paige Newhouse, PhD history, Germany: “Vietnamese and the Construction of the German Asylum State”
Megan Rigney, MPH health behavior and health education, Germany / the Netherlands: internship with Cityplot Berlin
Emily Sartorius, MSI information, Germany: internship with HEADT Centre
Anikka Van Eyl, MURP urban and regional planning / MSW social work, the Netherlands: “Planning for a Sustainable and Resilient Amsterdam City Region Food System”
Justin van Geest, PhD music theory, Germany: “The Chorale in American Music Theory: A Genealogy”
Parrish Wright, PhD classical art and archaeology, Italy: “Competing Narratives of Identity and Urbanism in Central and Southern Italy”
Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Tinker Field Research Grant: supports master’s, doctoral, and professional school students conducting preliminary or pre-dissertation fieldwork in Latin America.
Savannah Boerger, MPH epidemiology, Ecuador: “Mosquito Species Characterization to Inform Dengue Surveillance in Ecuador”
Eimeel Castillo , PhD women's studies, Nicaragua: “U.S. Marines and Prostitution in Occupied Nicaragua (1912-1928)”
Abigail Collingwood, MPH epidemiology, Ecuador: “Sociometric Survey Design for Dengue Transmission in Ecuador”
Paloma Contreras, PhD anthropology, Mexico: “Water Quality, Public Trust, and Health in Mexico City”
John Curlis, PhD ecology and evolutionary biology, Panama: “Experimentally Testing the Evolutionary Drivers of Color Signals in Lizards”
Bianca Dragone, MS sustainable systems, Chile: “Modeling Circular Urban Metabolism in Chilean Cities”
Javier Augusto Espinoza Rios, PhD history, Peru: “The Widespread Priestly Engagement in Economic Life in Colonial Lima”
Maria del Mar Estrada Rebull, PhD educational studies, Mexico: “Integrated Social Studies in a Mexican Indigenous-Mestizo Elementary School”
Aaron Frutos, MPH epidemiology, Brazil: “Spatiotemporal Cluster Analysis of Breteau Indices in Sao Paulo, Brazil”
Miranda Garcia, PhD anthropology, Cuba: “Independent Advertising in Cuba: A Lens on Economic and Social Change”
Dylan Kilby, MPH epidemiology, Chile: “Air Pollution and Maternal/Child Health Outcomes in Southern Chile”
Lucas Koutsoukos Chalhoub, PhD history, Brazil: “The President and the Rabble: Vargas and Race in 1950s Rio de Janeiro”
Jennifer Larios, PhD anthropology, Peru: “Unagara¡ Mapping Project”
Madel Leal, MSI information, Ecuador: internship with History Project, Nido De Vida
Rumaan Malhotra, PhD ecology and evolutionary biology, Chile: “Dogs and Darwin's Fox: Coexistence in a Complex Landscape of Interactions”
Leigh Mitchell, MS sustainable systems, Chile: “Modeling Circular Urban Metabolism in Chilean Cities”
Jaime Moore, MPH epidemiology, Bolivia: “Tuberculosis in Bolivia”
Jonathan Morris, PhD environment and sustainability, Mexico: “Biodiversity, Interaction Complexity, and Pest Control in Coffee”
Emily Pfleiderer, MS environmental policy and planning, Chile: “Modeling Circular Urban Metabolism in Chilean Cities”
Sylvia Simioni, PhD information science, Honduras: “Connectivity, Community and Caravans: Technology and Central American Migrants”
Rosa Vasquez, PhD chemical biology, Peru: “MicroAmazon: The Hidden World of Amazonian Extremophiles”
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Research, Internship, and Fellowship Program Grant: supports summer research projects or internships in Eastern Europe or the former Soviet Union.
Suzanna Duba, BA international studies, Russia / Kazakhstan: internship with Ernst & Young
Rachel London, BFA art and design, Russia: “From the Periphery: Mapping Public Space in Moscow”
Grace Mahoney, PhD Slavic languages and literatures, Ukraine: “State Museums and Cultural Development in Soviet Ukraine, 1918-1939”
McKenna Marko, PhD Slavic languages and literatures, Croatia / Serbia / Israel: “Trauma, Testimony, and Resistance: Remembering the Holocaust in Yugoslavia”
Genta Nishku, PhD comparative literature, Albania / Kosovo: “Comparative Analysis of Activist Movements in 1990s Albania and Kosovo”
Gyorgyi Parditka, PhD anthropology, Hungary / Serbia: “Isolation and Transformation: Response to Collapse in Bronze Age Eastern Europe”
Zhehao Tong, BA undeclared, Czech Republic: internship focused on cross-cultural psychology
James Torpy, PhD anthropology, Albania / Kosovo / Greece / Cyprus: “Death in Contested Landscape: The Iron Age Cemetery of Athienou, Cyprus”
Mariya Zilberman, MFA creative writing, Belarus: “Belorussian State Yiddish Theater: A Case Study in Constructing Selfhood”
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Ukrainian Research Grant: provides support for summer research projects focused on Ukraine.
Kaley Hanenkrat, MA Russian, East European and Eurasian studies / JD law, Ukraine: “Understanding and Analyzing Anti-Corruption Reforms in Ukraine”
Copernicus Program in Polish Studies Amelia Kulesa Konopka Fellowship: supports summer research projects or internships in Poland.
Minh-Quan Nguyen, BSE naval architecture and marine engineering, Poland: internship
Copernicus Program in Polish Studies Summer Grants: provide support to undergraduate and graduate students performing summer research projects or internships in Poland.
Erina Baci, PhD anthropology, Albania / Greece / Kosovo / Macedonia / Montenegro: “Seasonal Mobility and Settlement Patterns in Bronze Age-Iron Age Kosovo”
Jeffrey Bilik, PhD sociology, Russia: “Moral Boundaries, City Borders: Migration Regulation in Soviet-era Moscow”
Emily Learman, BA history / German, Poland: internship with the Tatra Museum
Catherine Szkop, BS anthropology, Poland: internship with POLIN
Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Summer Fellowship: open to undergraduate and graduate students, and supports summer research projects or internships in Europe or Eurasia which engage the theme of “emerging democracies past or present.”
Natalie Cadotte, BA undeclared, France: internship with Global Experiences
Emanuel Dushaj, BA undeclared, Albania: internship
Miriam Ernest, BA public policy, Austria: internship with the U.S. State Department
Sofia Gabby, BA biology, Portugal: internship with Atlantis Fellowship
Raul Galan, PhD sociology, Romania: “State Bureaucrats and the Rise of Totalitarianism”
Luc Le Pottier, BS physics, Switzerland: “Machine Learning for Dark Matter Discovery at the Large Hadron Collider”
Anton Lekocaj, BS economics, Albania: internship with the National Coastal Agency
Chris Li, BS cognitive science / psychology / German, Germany: “WZW11: Systems Medicine; Technical University of Munich PREP Program”
Aleksandra Luca, BA political science, England: internship with the U.S. Embassy in London
Andy Ly, BA Romance languages and literatures, Spain: internship
Konrat Pekkip, BA political science / international studies, Germany: internship with the German Parliament and research on socialist nostalgia
Sarah Wheat, PhD history of art, Turkey / Germany: “The Architect Bruno Taut's Japanese and Turkish Influence/Influencers”
Alexa Zielinski, BA psychology, Switzerland: “To Perceive Good: SNSF- Character and the Good Life”
Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Albanian Community Summer Fellowship: awarded to undergraduate students to support study, research, or internships in Albania and neighboring countries preparing to join the European Union.
Madalasa Chaudhari, BA international studies, Albania: internship with Village Development Project
Albi Popaj, BBA business administration, Albania: human resources internship with the Municipality of Tirana
Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Babo Albanian Community Summer Fellowship: supports undergraduate students for study, research, or internships in Albania.
Ina Gjoka, BS biochemistry, Albania: internship focused on chemical analysis of water and mineral resources
Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Kabcenell New Europe Grant: provides funding for summer study, research, or internships in countries that became European Union members in 2004 or later, or are current candidate countries.
Vibhawari Deshpande, BS movement science, Cyprus: internship with Summer in Cyprus