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Alumni Achievements

Having graduated from the School in 2005 with first class honours, David Evans (pictured left) went on to postgraduate study with UCL. It is with great delight that we hear he has recently landed a prestigous post with the Lunar Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas. He will be involved in making an algorithm for the unsupervised classification of the morphological features on the surface of Mars. Congratulations David!

As one of Nottingham University's Student Community Action schemes, the Tanzania Book Project endeavours to give new life to old books and, in doing so, giving thousands of Tanzanians the opportunity for the better education which they so richly need. Max Griffiths, a graduate of Geography at the University of Nottingham, ran the project in between lectures.

The Tanzania Education Project was formed in 2004 to build on the work of the Tanzania Book Project and to provide greater educational opportunities to the Maasai population in Northern Tanzania.

Project update 25/07/05
Project update 15/08/05
Project update 29/08/05

The centre opens! Update 20/09/05

Between July and September 2005 a group of volunteers from the University of Nottingham will head out to Tanzania to work in partnership with locals at Meserani, Tanzania, to build an educational centre.

The land for the education centre (pictured left) has already been purchased from a local businessman and the plans have been drawn up (pictured below).

All stages of the centre will be built in local building styles and will provide access for the disabled.

It’s a mammoth nine-week project which will help an estimated 7,200 children in 20 different Tanzanian schools. But the long-term proposal is a six-year plan which will see students continually volunteering to maintain and develop the education centre and books continually being donated.

“I built the projects up from scratch during my last two years at the University,” said Max, who has also put his own money into the project. “I feel both embody the spirit of community, entrepreneurship and academia that Nottingham has."

"My academic research also highlighted the fact that Aids is a massively worrying emerging problem which has the serious potential to wipe out the whole Maasai population. What I'm doing now is a charitable activity for a population I've been studying - an immediate opportunity to provide a solution to a problem I discovered while at university."

The project team have plans to run AIDS awareness workshops whilst in Tazania to raise awareness amongst the Maasai, the research for which has come from the work of another Nottingham Geography student, Lauren Gough.

As this is an ongoing project, the team have commited to keep the School informed of progress - updates will be posted on this page as they are received.