UC Davis Student Affairs recently announced that Michelle Villegas-Frazier has been named the inaugural Senior Strategic Advisor for Native American/Alaska Native and First Nation Affairs, and Nora Zade is assisting with tribal affairs development as program coordinator. Zade works with the analytical and non-empirical research to support tribal affairs development and supports universitywide Native American projects.
The Strategic Advisor and Program Coordinator roles:
Renetta Garrison Tull, vice chancellor of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of California, Davis, has been elected president of the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI). Her term will begin on January 1, 2025.
Tull was selected for the leadership role because of her deep commitment to advancing diversity in STEM and building global networks in engineering, according to LACCEI.
Seven faculty members from two important programs within the Office of Academic Diversity —a unit with the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion — were among the 12 UC Davis scholars to be named in this year’s class of Hellman Fellows.
All students, including those from ethnoracially diverse and from white backgrounds, benefit from supportive learning environments that accommodate adolescents’ multiple cultural and ethnic backgrounds, according to new University of California, Davis, research. These benefits span the academic, social and emotional realms.
As part of UC Davis’ $1.039 billion in external research awards, Felicity Muth received funding from The National Geographic Society for her project, "Ecology Shaping Cognition: An Exploration with Wild Bees." As a CAMPOS Faculty Scholar and assistant professor of neurobiology, physiology and behavior, Muth advances our understanding of how environments shape cognition in bumblebees and other bee species.
Associate professor of African American studies Benjamin Weber joins Chancellor Gary S. May on this month’s episode of Face to Face. Weber was part of the 2020-21 cohort of CAMPSSAH (Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspective on Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities) Scholars.
