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Women in an under-resourced section of the Mexican city of Mérida formed a cooperative kitchen in response to the economic hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic. They call themselves Las Zarigüeyas, or “the opossums.” Their aim: Feed their children and keep them in school.

Crump, Zepeda win grant for sustainability in Mexico

  • by Trina Kleist

Ana Zepeda received the Grant for Advancing Sustainable Development Goals on behalf of the Crump Lab in order to help women in southern Mexico plant a community garden. Read an excerpt of the article below and follow the link to read the original article. 

Ana Zepeda has received a $7,300-grant to help women in southern Mexico plant a community garden, intended to provide better nutrition for their children and keep them in school.

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Global Aggies: Designing Global Classrooms for Real-World Challenges

In June 2020, Universitas 21 (U21) named UC Davis among the winners of its inaugural Global Education Enhancement Fund. Through this grant, UC Davis partnered with Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico to create a framework for teaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Global Classroom modules.
People working on Seed Grant projects, including lake research

2021 Global Affairs Seed Grant Projects Aim to Solve Global Challenges

The sixth annual International Connections Reception, hosted by Global Affairs on March 4, brought together the UC Davis community in an online forum to celebrate several award and grant programs, including the 2021 recipients of Global Affairs Seed Grants for International Activities. These grants are offered in partnership with the Office of Research and the individual colleges and schools to faculty taking on innovative research, service, and engagement projects around the world.
College of Engineering Student Jennifer Lainez collaborating with Daniel Sanchez y Sanchez from Reforestamos, a nonprofit consortium in Ciudad de México, Mexico.

UC Davis Students Put Engineering and Professional Skills Into Global Practice

In the remote learning environment, students in a UC Davis University Writing Program engineering writing class have a new way to engage in global collaborations. Ten small-scope, high-impact projects offered by companies based in Germany, Austria, Spain, Ireland, and Mexico are giving undergraduate engineering students in UWP102E the opportunity to put professional writing and communication skills into practice.
Collage of several portraits of the featured stories.

Humanizing Deportation: The Faces of Contemporary Migration

Robert Irwin, a professor at University of California, Davis, has been working on a community-based digital storytelling project, Humanizing Deportation/Humanizando la Deportación, since 2016. The project website describes their mission and contains over 300 digital stories of more than 250 different people. These testimonial audiovisual shorts focus on the issues that migrants want to highlight regarding their experiences and their thoughts on the contemporary phenomenon of mass deportation.
Future of International Education Graphic with IIE and UC Davis logos

Briefing Paper: The Future of International Education: Leadership Perspectives from Around the World

IIE and UC Davis created the Future of International Education: Leadership Perspectives from Around the World as an online series for candid discussion among senior university leaders, to facilitate region-specific and global insights about how the pandemic is reshaping global engagement for higher education. Based on the series, this briefing paper covers four key themes for the future of international education.
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