Article 26 Backpack Content

A Backpack to Help Refugees

Cody Kitaura — January 30, 2024 - 9:00am

This month’s guest on Face to Face With Chancellor May is a student who came to UC Davis to help refugees preserve their access to higher education — all while completing her own studies.

Top UC Davis Graduate to Pursue Studies in Climate Change Fiction

Julia Ann Easley — June 09, 2020 - 11:55pm

An English major who aims to use fiction to address climate change is the 2020 University Medalist at UC Davis.

LAURELS: A Medal for Keith David Watenpaugh

Dave Jones — February 19, 2019 - 11:43am

The Institute of International Education today (Feb. 19) awarded a Centennial Medal to Keith David Watenpaugh, professor and director of Human Rights Studies at UC Davis. The presentation took place at the institute’s Centennial Summit in New York City.

UC Davis helps Syrian refugees reclaim right to education

Julia Ann Easley — November 14, 2018 - 2:22pm

In Lebanon, Syrian refugees are reclaiming the human right to education with help from the University of California, Davis.

As that right — in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ Article 26 — marks 70 years in December, they are rewriting the narrative around what it means to be a refugee.

UC Davis Launches Digital Tool in Lebanon to Help Refugees Reclaim Right to Education

Julia Ann Easley — June 12, 2018 - 3:41pm

World Refugee Day June 20 Facebook Live, 9 a.m. PDT

To mark World Refugee Day, join Keith David Watenpaugh as he discusses Article 26 Backpack in a Facebook Live event from Beirut at 9 a.m. PDT on Wednesday, June 20. Nele Feldman, head of Student Emergency Initiatives for the Institute of International Education, hosts. (20 minutes)

IET Team Behind Project to Help Syrian Refugees Reclaim Right to Education

Julia Ann Easley — June 12, 2018 - 2:19pm

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.

Web developers did the custom programming for the Article 26 Backpack, a cloud-based platform to help refugees document and share their educational credentials.

Keith David Watenpaugh, a professor in the ��ý 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.

UC Davis Doctoral Student Designs Comic Book for Refugee Project

Julia Ann Easley — June 12, 2018 - 8:41am

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.

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.