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Workshop Students Take First Place: UNICEF and six students from SIPA's workshop in development practice won first place in USAID’s “Development 2.0 Challenge.” The award recognizes an innovative system using mobile phones and text messages to monitor children's health in Malawi. More
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Read more about the project from UNICEF here.
Bamboo Bike Project: A student research team has partnered with the UN Millennium Cities Initiative to assess the feasibility of growing a bamboo bike-building industry in Kenya. More
Brazilian Mining Project Wins Award: The student team of Noelia Cornejo, Claire Kells, Tania Ortiz de Zuniga, Stacey Roen and Brandon Thompson won the 2009 Leous Parry Award for Progressive Sustainability for its work on promoting social dialogue on the impacts of mining company operations in Pará, Brazil. The team partnered with the Instituto Observatório Social (IOS) and Centro de Estudos das Negociações Internacionais (CAENI) to study the mining of bauxite, from which aluminum is derived. More
Rebuilding Nias Island in Indonesia: One EPD workshop partnered with the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) as it helps Nias Island recover in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami. The workshop consisted of four weeks of field work. Kelly Heindel (MIA '09) described her workshop experience for the Office of Admissions' blog. More