1999 Wallenberg Award

This year's Wallenberg Award recipient is U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Georgia), a leader of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee in his youth and champion of human rights in his political career. Lewis will deliver the 1999 Wallenberg Lecture in April or early fall. The date and venue will be anounced soon, the committee said.

Contributions to the Wallenberg Endowment may be made payable to the University of Michigan and designated "for the University Wallenberg Endowment." For further information, contact the Wallenberg Lecture Coordinator, Room 172, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, 48109-1070. Telephone (734) 647-4566.