Policy | Public Scholarship and Engagement

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California Budget Includes Money to Help Homeless Animals

by By Andy Cowitt
July 28, 2021

"California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed budget legislation that includes $45 million in one-time support for a statewide Animal Shelter Assistance Program. The program will be administered by the Koret Shelter Medicine Program, at the University of California, Davis, Center for Companion Animal Health. The increase will be used to fund grants and outreach for the state’s animal shelters over a period of five years.

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Looking Ahead: Priorities and Policies of the Biden Administration

Hosted by: the Center for Poverty and Inequality Research

As we look to the next four years under a new administration, what should we expect in terms of poverty and inequality alleviation?

California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) Policy Fellowship

California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) is seeking Ph.D. scientists and engineers for a year of public service and government leadership training in the California State Legislature and California state agencies.

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Student Project Explores California Ballot Initiatives

November 03, 2020

Science & Technology

UC Davis students used data science and visualization to shed light on this year’s ballot initiatives through the California Election 2020 Data Challenge.

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A Sea of Change is Coming

September 16, 2020

Environment

A team of UC Davis faculty and students, community partners, local businesses, and policy makers are working together to turn the tide on a problematic change facing our waters.

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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.

Listening to the Undocumented

January 15, 2020

Access, Equity & Justice

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.

Bringing justice closer to home

December 17, 2019

Access, Equity & Justice

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.

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

Access, Equity & Justice

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.