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Global Health Symposium – presented by Timmy Global Health & MHEAL

Small Grants /

The Global Health Symposium is an annual lecture-based symposium hosted by M-HEAL and Timmy Global Health to promote active learning and engagement in global health efforts in the university community.  With generous grants from BLI and other organizations, we were able to successfully carry out our event.  This year, 124 students from various majors were able […]

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Standing Rock Solidarity Zine Release Event

Small Grants /

This fall semester, I had the great privilege to work with a group of independently organized students to show solidarity with the water protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota. Though our project originally formed through the Graham Sustainability Institute’s undergraduate scholars program’s interdisciplinary courses, our team grew to incorporate a larger group of students from

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Pantanal Partnership Solar Team – Mato Grosso, Brazil

Project Grants, Think Global /

By Ava Landgraf Pantanal’s Solar Project Pantanal is the largest wetland in the world, where Pantanal Partnership travels to implement sustainable technology. Shift in Leadership Perspective While in Brazil I learned that culture plays a big part on roles, especially in terms of gender. In the community where we installed the solar-powered refrigerator, women were

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Romina – UBELONG (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)

Archive, Internships, Think Global /

By Romina Potter This past May, I taught English in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for four weeks through a non-profit called UBELONG. This was my second time volunteering through UBELONG because I sincerely ascribe to its service philosophy, with its deep commitment to long term initiatives, for a lasting impact that is achieved through a sustained

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Julia Snider – Copenhagen, Denmark; Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Think Global /

By Julia Snider With the help of the BLI Global Scholarship, I was able to spend six weeks of this past summer studying abroad–five of those weeks were in Copenhagen, plus a week-long class field trip to Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This was my first time in the Eastern Hemisphere, and I’m happy to say I returned home

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Brian – Institute for Economics and Peace (Sydney, Australia)

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By Brian Lee I was interning for the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). They are a not for a profit think tank that tries to measure peace in the world by developing a global peace index. In the organization, I was doing some in-house consulting for a philanthropist that wanted to measure the cost-effectiveness

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