Institute for Regional and International Studies
IRIS NRC is delighted to announce that UW-Madison junior Zindzi Frederick has been awarded a 2026 Reporting Fellowship by the Pulitzer Center. The Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowships support students pursuing independent journalism projects on underreported global topics including climate change, migration and refugees, global health, and human rights. Frederick’s project will report on the growing …
Cat Carroll (B.A. Journalism, International Studies, and German, ’25) has published a new project with the Pulitzer Center, From the Ground Up: Filipino Community Helps Fill Gaps in Austria’s Health Care. A Wolff Fellow and Health Journalism Fellow with the Association of Health Care Journalists, Carroll investigates how Austria’s Filipino community is addressing a growing …
As she wraps up her senior year at UW–Madison, Cat Carroll is preparing for a journey unlike any other: a year-long global trek across seven countries to explore the human stories behind migration. Cat, a Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow and IRIS NRC FLAS awardee, was recently named as the College of Letters & Science Wolff …
IRIS NRC is delighted to announce that UW-Madison senior Catherine “Cat” Carroll has been awarded a 2025 Reporting Fellowship by the Pulitzer Center. Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowships support students pursuing independent journalism projects on underreported global topics including climate change, migration and refugees, global health, and human rights. Carroll’s project “Critical Care: Two Nations, One …