Africa

Shaheen Alikhan Fall 2024 CGII GGR Research

The purpose of this project is to develop the STAR Global Autism Initiative as a new branch of UVa’s Supporting Transformative Autism Research (STAR).

Sheila Crane, Fall 2024 CGII Center Grant Research

Hector Duenes, Fall 2024 CGII GGR Research

This is a collaboration with the Athar Lina Initiate to conduct research and create co- design strategies for socially and contextually aware modes of turning the water that is inundating historic buildings into a resource for improving the social and built environments of the Al-Khalifa neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt.

Healthy Learners is an international NGO that developed an innovative, low-cost school health program in Zambia.

Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDCs) are struggling to meet the demand for affordable housing in their growing cities.

Need for access to clean water is one of the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century and a critical challenge for South Africa.

This grant supports the creation of a collaborative working group to foster interdisciplinary conversation among UVA faculty working on West Africa.

Brookes (Revisited) is the first design exhibition to accurately visualize the iconic 1788 drawing “Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788,” created by abolitionists and politicians using architectural techniques.