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Dr. Stephen Silliman has been named dean of the new Trevecca Nazarene University School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Silliman was dean of Gonzaga University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science from 2012-18. He later served at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Global Development Lab as a Jefferson Science Fellow before returning to Gonzaga as an environmental studies and engineering professor in 2019. Prior to his work at Gonzaga, Silliman was a professor of civil engineering and geological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, where ...

BACKGROUND Digital Frontiers is a $74.4 million buy-in mechanism available to USAID Bureaus and Missions from 2017-2022. DAI implements the Digital Frontiers project, which works closely with USAID’s Global Development Lab (GDL), the Center for Digital Development (CDD), USAID Missions, the private sector, and international and local development organizations to identify successful and sustainable digital development approaches and scale their impact globally. In August 2019, USAID/Senegal completed the Burkina Faso and Niger Digital Assessment for Food Security and Resilience and discovere...

Spurring Innovation to Help Venezuelans January 01, 2021 share Print The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Inter-American Development Bank launched the BetterTogether, or Juntos-Es-Mejor, Challenge. Embed share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:03:52 0:00 Pop-out player The mismanagement and corruption of the illegitimate regime of Nicolás Maduro has plunged Venezuela into the worst humanitarian, political, and economic crisis in its history. The United States has provided hundreds of millions of dollars to support relief efforts for Venezuelans both inside and...