By Amrita Kondur We are team Solar Fridge, a group of students creating a solar-powered storage fridge to holdvaccines. Over a million people die every year from vaccine-preventable illnesses. In 2017, ateam of University of Michigan students traveled to a community in the Monte Plata provinceknown as Rincon Claro.Rincon Claro is a community of less […]
By Rahul Nanwani We recently held our Day of Service on April 19th, 2025, and wanted to share a bit about how it went. Wehad 71 volunteers join us, along with four local organizations, to contribute to some meaningful projectsacross the Ann Arbor community. Working TogetherCollaboration played a big role in this event. We worked
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By Shriya Mehta Project RISHI (Rural India Social and Health Improvement) is a student-runnonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the sustainable development andgrowth of rural Indian communities. For the past 8 months, our team has been collaboratingwith CanKids KidsCan, an India-based nonprofit organization dedicated to improving thetreatment, care, and support of pediatric cancer patients
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By Lily Gerlach Thank You!! Hey everyone! Food Group here! Thank you to everyone who attended our event, “Beyond Ramen,” and supported our journey through the BLI Leadership Seminar! Our event featured free healthy MDining catering (including dietary options) and an interactive Q&A with a university nutritionist to promote proper nutrition. To measure success, we
By Yeyang Zhang The world can feel overwhelming, especially when it comes to managing health in today’sfast-paced life. At a time when many face challenges in maintaining a healthy lifestyle, wefounded GreenPlatter with a simple goal in mind: to empower diabetic patients to take control oftheir diets in a convenient, data-driven way. At first, it
By Sylvia Rodriguez, Amanda Gebre, and Gabriela Gaytan-Aguirre Gaby: From the start, we all put forth skills we deemed necessary to navigate the journey we setourselves on. In gaining the funding from BLI, it allowed us to curate events to cater tobroadening student experiences and perspectives. Through our experience in creating eventscentered around creating connections,
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By Tess Carichner As a nursing major who has a lifetime of experience and participation in the disability community, integrating my disability cultural values into my college transition and general life work has always been important to me. I lead a group called Disability Justice @ Michigan and work in the Digital Accessible Futures Lab,
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By Alisha Keshwani Alisha and Alina Keshwani are both sophomores at the University of Michigan on the pre-medical track. They are the founders and Co-Presidents of the University of Michigan Chapter of the American Lung Cancer Screening Initiative (ALCSI) and have been actively involved in health advocacy since high school. Through their work, Alisha and
By Ariana Kertsman This summer I interned with the Racial Justice Clinic (RJC) at the University of San Francisco’sLaw School, where I researched cases of people currently incarcerated in California’s prison system,wrote memos and case summaries, and performed organizational tasks assigned to me. I am grateful tothe attorneys at the clinic who were willing to
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By Sadie Esch Laurent The BLI grant helped pay for a summer studying and working in Dublin. I interned at a hotel andtook two classes during my two months in Ireland. My main challenge was that my internshipwas not as it was initially described. Before starting, I was told certain tasks that I would bedoing
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