Article 26 Backpack Content / Article 26 Backpack Content for ٺƵ en A Backpack to Help Refugees /news/podcasts-and-shows/face-to-face/backpack-help-refugees <p><span><span>This month’s guest on <em>Face to Face With Chancellor May</em> is a student who came to ٺƵ to help refugees preserve their access to higher education — all while completing her own studies.</span></span></p> January 30, 2024 - 9:00am Cody Kitaura /news/podcasts-and-shows/face-to-face/backpack-help-refugees Top ٺƵ Graduate to Pursue Studies in Climate Change Fiction /news/top-uc-davis-graduate-pursue-studies-climate-change-fiction <p>An English major who aims to use fiction to address climate change&nbsp;is the 2020&nbsp;University Medalist at ٺƵ.</p> June 09, 2020 - 11:55pm Julia Ann Easley /news/top-uc-davis-graduate-pursue-studies-climate-change-fiction LAURELS: A Medal for Keith David Watenpaugh /news/laurels-medal-keith-david-watenpaugh <p>The Institute of International Education today (Feb. 19) awarded a Centennial Medal to Keith David Watenpaugh, professor and director of Human Rights Studies at ٺƵ. The presentation took place at the institute’s Centennial Summit in New York City.</p> February 19, 2019 - 11:43am Dave Jones /news/laurels-medal-keith-david-watenpaugh ٺƵ helps Syrian refugees reclaim right to education /news/uc-davis-helps-syrian-refugees-reclaim-right-education <p>In Lebanon, Syrian refugees are reclaiming the human right to education with help from the University of California, Davis.</p> <p>As that right — in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ Article 26 —&nbsp;marks 70 years in December, they are rewriting the narrative around what it means to be a refugee.</p> November 14, 2018 - 2:22pm Julia Ann Easley /news/uc-davis-helps-syrian-refugees-reclaim-right-education ٺƵ Launches Digital Tool in Lebanon to Help Refugees Reclaim Right to Education /news/uc-davis-launches-digital-tool-lebanon-help-syrian-refugees-reclaim-right-education <section class="wysiwyg-feature-block "> <h3 class="wysiwyg-feature-block__title">World Refugee Day June 20 Facebook Live, 9 a.m. PDT&nbsp;</h3> <div class="wysiwyg-feature-block__body"> <p>To mark World Refugee Day, join Keith David Watenpaugh as he discusses Article 26 Backpack&nbsp;in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/IIEglobal/videos/10156376534733428/">Facebook Live event</a> from Beirut at 9 a.m. PDT on Wednesday, June 20. Nele Feldman, head of Student Emergency Initiatives&nbsp;for the Institute of International Education, hosts. (20 minutes)</p></div></section> June 12, 2018 - 3:41pm Julia Ann Easley /news/uc-davis-launches-digital-tool-lebanon-help-syrian-refugees-reclaim-right-education IET Team Behind Project to Help Syrian Refugees Reclaim Right to Education /news/iet-team-behind-project-help-syrian-refugees-reclaim-right-education <p>A team from Information and Educational Technology is behind a very human project that launches this week to help Syrian refugees in Lebanon reclaim their right to education.</p> <p>Web developers did the custom programming for the Article 26 Backpack, a cloud-based platform to help refugees document and share their educational credentials.</p> <p>Keith David Watenpaugh, a professor in the College of Letters and Science and director of the Backpack project, is in Lebanon to help 300 to 400 refugees set up virtual “backpacks” June 15 to July 3.</p> June 12, 2018 - 2:19pm Julia Ann Easley /news/iet-team-behind-project-help-syrian-refugees-reclaim-right-education ٺƵ Doctoral Student Designs Comic Book for Refugee Project /news/uc-davis-doctoral-student-designed-comic-book <p>With ink and watercolors, a doctoral student at the University of California, Davis, is helping Syrian refugees thousands of miles away to pursue their education too.</p> <p>Maureen Burdock, who already has a career as an artist, designer and illustrator, designed the comic book for Article 26 Backpack, which launches in Lebanon June 15.</p> June 12, 2018 - 8:41am Julia Ann Easley /news/uc-davis-doctoral-student-designed-comic-book