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.
A gastroenterology fellow devoted to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in graduate medical education has been recognized for his passion by UC Davis Health peers and faculty.
The 2024 recipients of the Chancellor’s Fellowship for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are being honored for their work going above and beyond to help students from underrepresented backgrounds succeed at UC Davis.
History graduate students at UC Davis are investigating past discrimination against the Black community in Sacramento during the 1950s and beyond. With direction from Professor Gregory Downs, and in partnership with the city of Sacramento and the Greater Sacramento Urban League, they seek to answer the question: What could reparations look like?
The UC Davis Womxn in Tech (WIT) group received an official campus designation and became a subgroup of the Status of Women at Davis Administrative Advisory Committee (SWADAAC).
The NSF Broadening Participation in Engineering Award includes nearly $400,000 in funding which will bring an executive leadership program for engineering graduate students called PROMISE Engineering Institute Mentoring Academy (PEI-MA). Vice chancellor of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at UC Davis Renetta Garrison Tull is principal investigator of this project that also includes involvement from faculty at Stanford University and University of Maryland.
