To keep the tradition alive, below are a few photos from the final student presentations in the 2019 International Development Planning Studio. This year, the proposals focused on projects in Nigeria, Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania, Indonesia, and Iran. The titles of the projects were as follows:
- Reducing Food Insecurity in Yobe, Adawama, and Borno, Nigeria (Steven Black)
- Ensuring Energy Accessibility in Rural Uganda (Barrett Cosgrove)
- Increasing Rural and Semi-rural Electrification Rates In Lilongwe District, Malawi with Microgrids (Kia Lua)
- Dar es Salaam Urban Planning Incubation Lab (Brandon McCord)
- Decreasing Diarrheal Disease by Improving Water Safety (Kayla Septer)
- Increasing Educational Attainment of Adolescent Girls in Central Tanzania through Menstrual Hygiene Management (Kelly Summers)
- The Pollution Problem: A Collaborative Approach to Pollution in the Caspian (Neeki Zamanali)
I’d like to thank Dr. Sophie Wenzel, Dr. Rebecca Powell Doherty, Prof. A. Ozzie Abaye, John J. Lipsey, II, Dr. Kerry Redican, Dr. Larry Vaughan, Jim Foreman, Daniel Sumner, and Dr. Van Crowder for serving on the proposal review panel and/or for sharing their expertise with the students during the semester.
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