Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Ahmed Banya, a doctoral candidate in agricultural and extension education in the College of Agricultural Sciences and a master's candidate in the School of International Affairs, and Jeffrey Lackey, a recent graduate in electrical engineering in the College of Engineering, have been awarded the 2011 W. LaMarr Kopp International Achievement Award. Banya receives the graduate award, and Lackey is honored as the undergraduate recipient. The award recognizes graduate and undergraduate students who have contributed significantly to the advancement of the international programs of the University. It is named for the late deputy vice president for international programs. (more)
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Geography major Jen Spinelli was on a team of researchers that went to Rau and three other Tanzanian villages over the summer to study what the residents know about climate change. The visit was part of a larger project, Anticipatory Learning for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, or ALCCAR, led by geography assistant professor Petra Tschakert in Tanzania and Ghana. Its goal is to learn how the communities can avoid future effects of climate change by using the residents' skills and knowledge. (more)
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Two College of Education undergraduates spent part of the past summer working with children at a primary school in Tanzania. (more)
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
In 2008, two Penn State professors, Duarte Morais and Ladislaus Semali, ventured to Tanzania to perform fieldwork and devise a system that would improve communities though tourism. They established two efforts, which will be implemented in the coming months: to build a pottery kiln and booth for a local women's co-op, and to create a training program for local mountain guides. (more)
Friday, April 18, 2008
This summer will be Penn State senior Michael Dissen's second journey across the globe to the small village of Imbaseni, Tanzania. An elementary education major from Pittsburgh, Dissen's first trip to the eastern country in Africa was in 2007, with other Penn State students and professors in the women's studies department who were interested in outreach beyond conventional borders. (more)
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
A team of Penn State students have won $10,000 in an online contest that will help fund their project to aid Tanzanian children. The students, from the Colleges of Engineering, Health and Human Development, Business and Medicine, entered their project on ideablob.com to compete for the best social entrepreneurial idea. The team was pitted against seven other finalists during an online vote in February. According to Khanjan Mehta, one of the team's faculty advisers, the student project - called "Mashavu: Networked Health Solutions for the Developing World" - allows medical professionals to e-adopt children from the developing world through the use of modern communications technology. (more)
