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Policy & Popcorn

This two-part session will focus on communicating key scientific findings to target audiences.
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UC Advocacy Network Student Ambassador

Wanted: UC students who are ready to speak out

Students are a powerful force that can’t be ignored. In a year with so much loss and hardship, students are showing the world just how much they can affect change.

Roy "RJ" Taggueg, Jr.

Listening to the Undocumented

January 15, 2020
Roy “RJ” Taggueg, Jr. is an undocumented UC Davis student whose parents came from the Philippines when he was 7 years old. Now he is pursuing a Ph.D. in sociology with a research focus on studying the undocumented Filipinx population.
Access, Equity and Justice
Lisa Pruitt

Bringing justice closer to home

December 17, 2019
UC Davis Professor of Law Lisa Pruitt is partnering with people in rural communities to advocate for those who experience unequal access to legal services because of where they live. It’s work she isn’t paid for that takes a lot of time, but it helps ensure her work in academia can be more broadly relevant and address the experiences of rural communities.
Access, Equity and Justice
Immigrants waiting to be transferred, Ellis Island, Oct. 30, 1912. Credit...Library of Congress

Children of Poor Immigrants Rise, Regardless of Where They Come From

October 28, 2019
New research linking millions of fathers and sons dating to the 1880s shows that children of poor immigrants in America have had greater success climbing the economic ladder than children of similarly poor fathers born in the United States. That pattern has been remarkably stable for more than a century, even as immigration laws have shifted and as the countries most likely to send immigrants to the United States have changed.
Access, Equity and Justice
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New Law Sponsored by UC Will Allow Commercialization of Discoveries in State Parks

October 02, 2019
The University of California, Davis, became a major driver for the new legislation after Johan Leveau, a professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, discovered a promising anti-fungal microbe in soils from the Jug Handle State Natural Reserve along the Mendocino Coast but found himself unable to translate his discovery into a public benefit because existing state law did not allow the commercialization of research materials from state parks.
Science & Technology
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Sacramento Region to Launch Free Transit Pass for Youth

September 25, 2019
In 2017, Nancy Erbstein, a professor at the University of California, Davis, published findings that chronic absenteeism in the Sacramento City Unified School District could often be traced to a lack of transportation. Now the region’s school-age children will get a free transit pass to use Sacramento Regional Transit (SacRT) public buses and light rail
Access, Equity and Justice
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