From Kenya and India to South Africa and Peru, nine U-M graduating seniors — one each year since 2013 have had the opportunity to study abroad, immerse themselves in a new culture and go beyond a purely academic experience.

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.

He was brilliant, brave, and curious — and his tale unspools like a thrilling mystery. Architect Raoul Wallenberg, ’35, protected thousands of Jews from the Nazis in World War II. And then he disappeared off the face of the earth. Listen in, as we meet the 2018 Wallenberg scholars at the University of Michigan.

Global service and humanitarianism are in the DNA at U-M. Watch ‘A Selfless Cause,’ by Detroit Public Television.

The exhibit “To Me There’s No Other Choice,” honoring WWII hero and U-M alumnus Raoul Wallenberg, runs Jan. 30-Feb. 28.

Swedish native Raoul Wallenberg was a typical U-M student in 1935. But after graduation, he followed a path that was anything but typical. This World War II hero rescued close to 100,000 Hungarian Jews from the Nazis.