Public Impact | Public Scholarship and Engagement

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California Documentary Project Grants

Since 2003, California Humanities has awarded almost $7.5 million through the CDP grant program to nonfiction film, audio, and interactive media projects.

Call for Proposals: NHC's Graduate Student Podcasting Winter Institute

The DHI is accepting proposals from PhD students in the arts, humanities, and qualitative social sciences for grants to attend the National Humanities Center’s Graduate Student Podcasting Winter Institute, a five-day virtual program scheduled for January 9-13, 2023.

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Completing Case Narratives

by Irene Oritseweyinmi Joe
May 18, 2022

Access, Equity & Justice

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.

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Public Scholar for the Future Student Alice Dien Wins 2022 UC Davis Grad Slam with Revolutionary Drying Research

by Dateline Staff
May 16, 2022

University News

Biological Systems Engineering Ph.D. student Alice Dien was this year’s winner of the UC Davis Grad Slam, a Public Scholarship and Engagement (PSE) co-sponsored event that occurred on April 6. Dien’s winning research presentation “Cooling Down with the New Hot Air: The Future of Drying in Agriculture” earned her a $2,500 prize for first place, as well as the PSE’s Public Impact Prize.

‘New Hot Air’ Is a Grad Slam Dunk

by Dateline Staff
April 12, 2022

University News

Biological systems engineering Ph.D. student Alice Dien won the 2022 UC Davis Grad Slam with her 2-minute, 54-second presentation on her research into a new, sustainable way of drying food, “Cooling Down With the New Hot Air: The Future of Drying in Agriculture.”

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When a Challenge can also be an Opportunity

by Clare Cannon
February 28, 2022

Environment

PIRI grant recipient Clare Cannon shares the challenges and triumphs she's realized with her public scholarship during the pandemic.

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Protecting Animals When Disaster Strikes

by By Amy Quinton
August 02, 2021

Human & Animal Health

"University of California, Davis, leaders, veterinarians and California legislators today unveiled a new emergency program to help

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‘Moore’ Face Time With the Chancellor

by Cody Kitaura | July 27, 2021
July 27, 2021

"This month on Face to Face with Chancellor May, the chancellor turns the microphone around to interview a student who recently interviewed him.

Chancellor Gary S. May was the first guest on student Mahiri Moore Jr.’s new podcast last December, and now Moore is appearing on the latest edition of Face to Face.

Moore is a sophomore with his own nonprofit organization, Moore Truth More Change, focused on engaging Black and Latinx youths."

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Meet Public Scholarship and Engagement Prize Winner Paul Kasemsap

April 19, 2021

Announcements

Public Scholarship and Engagement offered an award to the Grad Slam finalist whose research was conducted in collaboration with non-university partners or demonstrated the highest potential for public impact.

How to Share Your Expertise Throughout Your Career

November 16, 2020

Education

Through public engagement, you can educate others as well as bolster your career, writes Erica Gobrogge. To determine which opportunities to pursue, consider a four-step approach