UC Davis was selected as one of 27 partner institutions to host the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders and Global Affairs is set to run a Public Management Institute this summer (June 20–July 27, 2018). The 2018 Mandela Fellows are welcomed from 17 countries and bring with them a passion for public policy and partnership.
The second cohort of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, Public Management Institute on Energy Policy sent a personal letter to the Global Affairs staff.
As national news regularly draws attention to concerns about international students on United States’ college campuses, The Enterprise sat down with Joanna Regulska, the UC Davis vice provost and associate chancellor of global affairs.
UC Davis Global Affairs will host its third institute for the Mandela Washington Fellowship, the flagship of the U.S. government’s Young African Leaders Initiative.
"South African author Alan Paton in 1948 wrote “Cry, the Beloved Country,” a story about a South African minister who goes in search of a wayward son who has been jailed for his part in a serious crime in Johannesburg.
Nearly 70 years later, perhaps a new novel, written by a new author, could be titled “Cry, the Beloved Continent,” a story about Africa and the formidable problems that continue to plague most of its 1.2 billion people.
Twenty-five young African leaders will leverage the world leadership of the University of California, Davis, in zero-net energy and its global experience to tackle energy challenges in their countries.
Under US President Barak Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative, 25 Africans leaders will head to the University of California, Davis for the first and only energy-themed institute offered through the Mandela Washington Fellowship.
Sarah Mulwah of Botswana has been an environmental consultant and a marketing manager for a nature reserve where she helped track white rhinos for a conservation project.
When Fatima Oyiza Ademoh of Nigeria arrived in California in June to attend the Power Africa/Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Energy Institute, she expected the gender component of the trainings to offer the usual information on how energy access impacts women and men differently.
The Mandela Washington fellows last week were visiting UC Davis’ Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility, learning about irrigated and dry-land agriculture.
