Americas / en Two Students Receive Peace Prizes to Expand Possibilities for Young People in their Home Countries /projects-peace/two-students-receive-peace-prizes-expand-possibilities-young-people-their-home Ruth Olujobi ’25 and Victor Souza ’26 have each received a Projects for Peace grant to work on self-designed initiatives in Nigeria and Brazil. 2025-05-10T06:55:43-0400 Rebecca Goldfine 23145 UNC students' focus grant on Native American skin cancer prevention efforts /projects-peace/unc-students-focus-grant-native-american-skin-cancer-prevention-efforts Two UNC students, junior Urvi Patel and sophomore Khizra Ahmad, recently received a $10,000 grant from Projects for Peace for their research in skin cancer prevention in Native American communities.  2025-05-09T11:05:25-0400 Anthony Locklear 23140 Penn Fourth-Year Annabelle Jin Named 2025-26 Luce Scholar /projects-peace/penn-fourth-year-annabelle-jin-named-2025-26-luce-scholar Jin is one of 16 students chosen as a 2025-26 Luce Scholar by the Henry Luce Foundation. 2025-04-14T15:20:45-0400 Penn Today 23040 Bard Student Grace Miller-Trabold ’26 Awarded Davis Projects for Peace Grant /projects-peace/bard-student-grace-miller-trabold-26-awarded-davis-projects-peace-grant Miller-Trabold’s project will provide resources for youth workshops on Indigenous Oaxacan textile traditions. 2025-04-14T10:51:28-0400 Bard College 23033 Sharing Educational Opportunities To Build a Brighter Future /projects-peace/sharing-educational-opportunities-build-brighter-future Two WPI juniors get youth in their hometown excited about STEM. 2025-04-14T10:22:58-0400 Mia Lumsden 23028 GW Senior Fights against Gender-Based Discrimination in Puerto Rico /projects-for-peace/reading-room/gw-senior-fights-against-gender-based-discrimination-puerto-rico Criminal justice major Helena Betancourt champions Projects for Peace reducing period poverty on her home island. 2024-01-12T12:23:13-0500 Nick Erickson 21584 Stitching Hope: Student Project Brings Healing to Displaced Afghan Women /projects-for-peace/reading-room/stitching-hope-student-project-brings-healing-displaced-afghan Over summer 2023, UNC Chapel Hill students Divya Patel and Grace May partnered with the Refugee Community Partnership to provide art therapy and community building opportunities for the local Afghan refugee population. 2023-10-24T15:34:45-0400 Brianna Patterson 21318 Yale University Global Affairs Students Work Toward Peace /projects-for-peace/reading-room/yale-university-global-affairs-students-work-toward-peace Lucy Calcott and Rolando Kattan Rubi will spend this summer in South Africa and Honduras, respectively, implementing projects that address critical societal issues. 2023-07-27T16:04:16-0400 Yale Jackson 20630 College of the Atlantic Students Mounts Refugee Support Project /projects-for-peace/reading-room/college-atlantic-students-mounts-refugee-support-project Alejandra Morales Torres will utilize her grant to improve the lives of migrant children in her hometown of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico. 2023-07-27T15:56:03-0400 Anara Katz 20627 Colorado College Grads Plan Art Workshops /projects-for-peace/reading-room/colorado-college-grads-plan-art-workshops Friends and collaborators Cormac McCrimmon, Andres Madrigal, and Manuel Uribe will use their grant to focus on the power of art to enact social change. 2023-07-27T15:27:39-0400 Julia Fennell 20618