/ African Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en /news/uc-davis-energy-institute-helps-light-way-africa <p>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.</p> <p>But a six-week <a href="/search/news/african">energy institute at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis</a> is helping her blaze a trail for a new endeavor —&nbsp;setting up a lending library of solar lanterns for rural schoolchildren whose families are too poor to connect to the power grid.</p> July 26, 2016 - 4:17pm Julia Ann Easley /news/uc-davis-energy-institute-helps-light-way-africa /news/african-drumming-dancing-open-uc-davis-student-center <p>WHAT: 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis will celebrate the opening of its Center for African Diaspora Student Success with a ceremony featuring African drumming and dancing.</p> <p>At the heart of the campus's new African-American Initiative, the center will facilitate many services -- including on-site tutoring, academic advising and mental health counseling -- to support those historically underrepresented in higher education.</p> <p>See the full release at: <a href="http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=11332">http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=11332</a></p> October 23, 2015 - 12:00am Julia Ann Easley /news/african-drumming-dancing-open-uc-davis-student-center