Alumni Association University of Michigan Winter 2012 : Page 16around the U Suu Kyi Receives Wallenberg Medal Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese human rights activist and Nobel Peace laureate, is the recipient of the 21st U-M Wallenberg Medal. In a rare public address overseas, Suu Kyi gave her videotaped Wallenberg Lecture on October 25 before an audience in Rackham Auditorium. A live Q&A followed. Suu Kyi serves as the general secretary of the National League for Democracy, the leading opposition political party in Burma. She led her party to victory in 1990 elections, but military leaders refused to recognize the results. She spent most of the past two decades in jail or house arrest before being freed in November 2010. The medal is named for Raoul Wallenberg, ’35, a Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews near the end of World War II before he vanished into the Soviet Gulag. LESTER MONTS, SENIOR VICE PROVOST FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, DISPLAYS THE WALLENBERG MEDAL, WHICH THE UNIVERSITY AWARDED TO AUNG SAN SUU KYI, WHO APPEARS ON THE SCREEN BEHIND HIM. Jo ch ear S b Net wo r DARYL MARSHKE, U-M PHOTO SERVICES ng ki starting out in your first job, seeking to polish up your skill set or finding the job of your dreams... LOOK TO THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. n r Advice e e r Ca Mentor ing Ca r ee c ia t io r s er v i c es o f f er ed b y y o u r Al u mn i As s o umalumni.com/jobs 16 Michigan Alumnus | Winter 2012 | umalumni.com B uilding Skill Publication List Using a screen reader? Click Here |
