Grand Challenges at UC Davis is making significant progress in its fight against the world’s “wicked problems,” including an expansion of its leadership team and funding for new research centers.
A $1.6 million Climate Action Seed Grant is funding a project to survey the landscape and plan climate resilience projects on Indian allotment lands. The UC Davis-led project will utilize landscape surveys, climate modeling, and the expertise of allottees to understand what is on their land and how it has changed over the past 20 years.
When Yolo Food Bank employee Andrea Aponte welcomed UC Davis student Phoebe Wong to the Yolo Food Bank as a College Corps fellow, it was a full circle moment.
Fifteen representatives from UC Davis College Corps' community partner organizations recently attended the Campus Compact national conference in Denver.
Environmental toxicologist Christina Pasparakis, who is an assistant professor based at Bodega Marine Laboratory, is the winner of the 2024 UC Davis Award for Innovation and Creative Vision.
Four faculty and staff members from UC Davis are being recognized for their outstanding global engagement work with two key awards that recognize the outstanding work of UC Davis faculty and staff in international education, research and service.
Through College Corps, students who serve 450 hours — or 15 hours a week — over an academic year receive monthly stipends totaling $7,000 and, upon completion, a $3,000 education award.
In its inaugural year, the Library Graduate Student prize is awarded to three graduate student researchers who have used the library to create outstanding, publicly engaged scholarship.
UC Davis has again been recognized for its significant contributions to innovation, economic growth and community engagement by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, or APLU.
A UC Davis grant program that helps faculty launch equitable community partnerships is featured in a new Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) report, "Modernizing Scholarship for the Public Good: An Action Framework for Public Research Universities."
Michael Rios, vice provost for public scholarship at UC Davis, has been named to the Association of Public Land-Grant Universities' (APLU) prestigious Commission on Economic and Community Engagement's Executive Committee.
Nearly 60 faculty and staff from UC Davis and UC Davis Health gathered on October 12 for the second Community Engagement Summit to develop shared goals and principles that will guide UC Davis in its continued commitment to community engagement.
The University of California, Davis, exceeded $1 billion in new external research awards in the fiscal year 2022-23 following the record set the previous year.
Commitments to social mobility, public service and research have earned the University of California, Davis, the No. 8 spot among public universities and No. 21 among all 442 national universities in the Washington Monthly 2023 College Rankings released today (Aug. 28).
