July 2007 - Higher Education for Development (HED), in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID/Ethiopia), announces a new award for a university partnership in Ethiopia. The University of Arizona (UA), Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) receives a $200,000 award to create a regional center of excellence on disaster risk management and sustainable development in collaboration with Bahir Dar University (BDU). Read more.