Archbishop Desmond Tutu received the Wallenberg Medal at the University of Michigan in 2008.
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- Desmond Tutu to receive Wallenberg Medal at University of Michigan in October, Ann Arbor News, July 2008
Nobel Prize winner and South African cleric Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be awarded the Wallenberg Medal and deliver the 18th annual Wallenberg Lecture at the University of Michigan in October, U-M announced Monday. The presentation honors Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, a 1935 graduate of the U-M College of Architecture, who is credited with saving the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews near the end of World War II.
