Collaborative research with the California Department of Public Health WIC Division helped UC Davis economists Charlotte Ambrozek and Timothy Beatty better understand not only the economic factors at work, but also the experiences of participants and vendors in the program.

Natalia Deeb-Sossa, associate professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies, has a passion for advocating for marginalized communities and addressing inequities. She documented the pandemic’s impact on children of farm workers with support from a Public Impact Research Initiative grant.

Age-segregation is, unfortunately, a growing trend. Human Ecology Professor Lisa Miller is working to address this through community engaged learning.

Prof. Gregory Downs used his PIRI grant to help UC Davis Graduate students’ community-engaged scholarship with Sogorea Te’.

Criminal procedure scholar and Professor Irene Oritseweyinmi Joe hopes her public scholarship will help give defendants a place in the narratives of their own case decisions.

Lee Martin '01, Ph.D. and associate professor in the UC Davis School of Education, is working with community partners, national agencies, and area high schools to inspire youth to build, engineer, tinker and adapt so they can learn more about Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). 

In the eyes of Jennifer Phipps and her research team, the pandemic has reaffirmed the importance of engaging community members in their public scholarship work that is focused on promoting health equity.

Professor and Founding Director of Human Rights Studies at UC Davis Keith David Watenpaugh’s work in public scholarship has not only earned him national recognition, but also helped hundreds of displaced refugees throughout the world. 

After a year-and-a-half of restrictions, Professor Robert Irwin and his team traveled to Tijuana to conduct their PIRI funded, community-engaged scholarship. The trip was invaluable and reaffirmed just how much this type of work is needed as this pandemic pervades.

 Blog post submitted as part of the Public Impact Research Initiative.

During the spring and summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic had its first waves, I moved back home from the dorms with one quarter remaining of my first year at UC Davis. Although things became very uncertain in the world around me, I had some new projects I was excited to work on.