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The 2015-16 Humphrey Fellows, from left: Buddhi Ram Chaudhary Tharu, Muhammad Ahmad, Harum Mukhayer, Maria Beatriz Pugliese, Nirina Fenoarifara Randriambololona, Manuel Patricio Bugueño, Tania Guzman, Humberto Camacho, Sam Oeurn Ke, Kakhaber Bakhtadze, T

Introducing our Hubert H. Humphrey fellows for 2015-16, a dozen midcareer professionals from Africa, Asia and South America. You can see their names below and photo at right, and you鈥檙e invited to hear them give short presentations next week.

AT A GLANCE

WHAT: Introducing our Humphrey fellows

WHEN: 2-4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2

WHERE: 3001

Free and open to the public

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More information about 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis鈥 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program is available online. The program also has a .

The federal government sponsors Humphrey fellows at universities around the country for 10 months of nondegree study as well as professional affiliation experiences.

During the summer, 33 other Humphrey fellows came to 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis for preacademic English orientation and training en route to their 鈥渉ome鈥 colleges for the year. 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Extension鈥檚 has been providing Humphrey fellowship training for 21 years.

Manuel M. Bugueno of Chile also came for training this summer 鈥 but he stayed on as one of our university鈥檚 12 fellows for the year. The others, who arrived in August, are from Argentina, Bolivia, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Georgia, Madagascar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sudan.

President Jimmy Carter established the in 1978, in honor of the late senator and vice president, a longtime advocate of international cooperation and understanding. The 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis program is housed at International House.

Part of the community

Each fellow is accepted into one of 17 designated fields of study. All of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis鈥 2015-16 fellows are in either natural resources, environmental policy and climate change; or agriculture and rural development.

At next week's program, the fellows will talk about their work and tell how their time here will contribute to improvements at home, in such areas as commercial scale energy production, water management and purification, food security-safety, sustainable rural development in post-conflict areas, postharvest production, natural disaster management, table grape production and rangeland conservation.

新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Extension鈥檚 Center for International Education is working with the fellows on business writing and presentation skills.

And, while the fellows are just now introducing themselves in a formal way, they鈥檝e already been out and about in the community, at the Davis Farmers Market, for example, and as volunteers for the city鈥檚 Apartment Move-Out Waste Reduction Program. They also are planning to help with the International Festival, Oct. 4, and Meals and Wheels.

Nikki Grey Rutamu, assistant director of the campus鈥檚 Hubert H. Humprhey Fellowship Program, said the fellows are happy to hear about other community service opportunities, and to consider invitations to speak at educational and cultural events.

More information about 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis鈥 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program is available online. The program also has a .

HUMPHREY FELLOWS, 2015-16

This year鈥檚 Humphrey fellows, with home country and work information:

Natural resources, environmental policy and climate change

  • Muhammad Ahmad, Pakistan, national project manager, sustainable energy, U.N. Industrial Development Organization
  • Kakhaber Bakhtadze, Georgia, socioeconomic geographer, environment and development
  • Manuel Patricio Bugue帽o, Chile, environmental engineer, Environmental Assessment Agency
  • Humberto Camacho, Bolivia, national coordinator, Bolivia Project Office
  • Tannia Margarita Mayorga Torres, Ecuador, auxiliary professor in geology, mining and oil, Universidad Central del Ecuador
  • Harum Mukhayer, Sudan, natural resource policy specialist, Darfur Development and Reconstruction Agency
  • Zhong Zhao, China, director, Green Camel Bell

Agriculture and rural development

  • Buddhi Ram Chaudhary Tharu, Nepal, livelihood specialist, freelance contractor
  • Tania Guzman, Colombia, rural development consultant
  • Sam Oeurn Ke, Cambodia, agricultural value chain and rural business adviser, Netherlands Development Organization (SNV)
  • Maria Beatriz Pugliese, Argentina, researcher and professor, Viticulture Agricultural Experimental Station, Instituto Nacional de Tecnolog铆a Agropecuaria
  • Nirina Fenoarifara Randriambololona, Madagascar, agronomist, COLEACP (Europe-ACP Liaison Committee, representing European and African, Caribbean and Pacific businesses that promote sustainable agriculture)

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Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu

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