Mandela Content / Mandela Content for 51ԹϺ Davis en 51ԹϺ Davis to Help Equip Africans to Meet Energy Challenges /news/uc-davis-help-equip-africans-meet-energy-challenges <p>Evelyn Mugisha grew up in rural Uganda where, for most people, there still is no power to light the night. But with eyes wide open, she’s dreaming of extending electricity to those rural areas.</p> <p>She and 24 other young professionals from sub-Saharan Africa — where two out of three people lack access to electricity — have come to the University of California, Davis, to equip themselves to tackle the enormous energy challenges on their continent.</p> June 19, 2017 - 9:21am Julia Ann Easley /news/uc-davis-help-equip-africans-meet-energy-challenges 51ԹϺ Davis to Help Young Africans Tackling Energy Challenges /news/uc-davis-to-help-young-africans-tackling-energy-challenges <p>The University of California, Davis, has been selected to host the second energy institute for young African leaders who are tackling energy challenges in their countries.</p> <p>Considered the most sustainable university in the world, 51ԹϺ Davis will offer “Sustainably Extending Energy Services: A Stakeholders Approach” for the Mandela Washington Fellowship, the flagship of the U.S. government’s Young African Leaders&nbsp;Initiative.</p> February 06, 2017 - 11:48am Julia Ann Easley /news/uc-davis-to-help-young-africans-tackling-energy-challenges 51ԹϺ Davis Helps Empower Those Tackling Africa's Energy Challenges /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 51ԹϺ 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 51ԹϺ Davis to Be Living Lab for Young African Leaders Tackling Energy Issues /news/uc-davis-be-living-lab-young-african-leaders-tackling-energy-issues <p>Their work in Africa ranges from placing solar lanterns in humble huts to advising the leadership of South Africa’s national power utility.</p> <p>But over the next six weeks, 25 young African leaders will be at the University of California, Davis, to leverage the campus’s&nbsp;energy expertise and better equip themselves to tackle the enormous energy challenges on their continent.</p> June 17, 2016 - 11:33am Julia Ann Easley /news/uc-davis-be-living-lab-young-african-leaders-tackling-energy-issues 51ԹϺ Davis to Host First Energy Institute for Obama's Young African Leaders Program /news/uc-davis-host-first-energy-institute-obamas-young-african-leaders-initiative <p>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.</p> <p>They will come to 51ԹϺ Davis for the first and only energy-themed institute offered through the <a href="https://youngafricanleaders.state.gov/washington-fellowship/">Mandela Washington Fellowship</a>, the flagship of President Obama’s <a href="https://youngafricanleaders.state.gov/">Young African Leaders&nbsp;Initiative</a>.</p> February 09, 2016 - 11:32am Julia Ann Easley /news/uc-davis-host-first-energy-institute-obamas-young-african-leaders-initiative