DATE: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5, 2006.

EVENT: Sixteenth Wallenberg Medal Ceremony and Lecture

The University of Michigan will award its 16th Raoul Wallenberg Medal to Sister Luise Radlmeier, a Dominican nun who was born in Germany to a family who helped feed and shelter Jewish families in World War II. Radlmeier has worked in Africa since 1956. From her base in northern Kenya, Radlmeier helps refugees from throughout East Africa, focusing in particular on the lost generation of Sudanese youth, including the Lost Boys of Sudan. U-M provost Teresa Sullivan will introduce Radlmeier, who will then deliver the Wallenberg Lecture. Micklina Pia Peter, a young woman from Sudan rescued by Radlmeier and now a student at the University of Colorado, will also speak.

A reception will immediately follow the lecture. The events are free and open to the public.

Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish citizen who graduated from the U-M College of Architecture in 1935. In 1944 the Swedish Foreign Ministry sent Wallenberg on a rescue mission to Budapest where his incomparable personal courage and ingenuity saved 100,000 Jewish lives. The Raoul Wallenberg Endowment was established at the University of Michigan in 1985 to commemorate Wallenberg and to recognize other individuals whose own courageous actions exemplify Wallenberg’s extraordinary humanitarian accomplishments and values. Previous Wallenberg Medal recipients include Miep Gies, the woman who supported Ann Frank and her family in hiding, and Nobel laureates Elie Wiesel and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

PLACE: Auditorium and lobby of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, 915 E. Washington St.; Central Campus map: http://www.umich.edu/~info/maps.html

SPONSORS: The lecture and medal ceremony are cosponsored by the Wallenberg Endowment and the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies.