CAMPOS Affiliates | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

About

The CAMPOS Faculty Affiliates Program provides an opportunity for UC Davis faculty to engage with CAMPOS Faculty Scholars in efforts to build diversity within the academic STEM* disciplines and to enhance our campus’s academic engagement with underserved communities.

Affiliate Support

Membership in a collaborative community of faculty interested in developing new research, teaching and mentoring methods to support diversity at UC Davis
Access to networking and mentoring opportunities
The opportunity to apply for conference travel awards to support professional activities aligned with CAMPOS goals of increasing diversity in STEM (ex: travel to SACNAS, HACU, SHPE, ABRCMS annual meetings)
Priority consideration for enrollment in ADVANCE/CAMPOS professional development opportunities, as they arise
Grant-writing workshops
National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) – Faculty Success Program
Additional space-limited seminars, roundtables, and networking events.

Nomination

CAMPOS Faculty Affiliates Application

All UC Davis faculty (Academic Senate and Academic Federation faculty from STEM and non-STEM disciplines) with an interest in contributing to the CAMPOS mission are encouraged to apply to the CAMPOS Faculty Affiliates Program. Applicants should submit the following materials to the CAMPOS Review Committee (camposscholars@ucdavis.edu).

A cover letter explaining how the applicant’s research, teaching, outreach, and mentoring aligns with the CAMPOS mission to support diversity in STEM and increase STEM engagement with underserved communities, including a section that addresses why the applicant would like to become a member of the CAMPOS Faculty Affiliates Program;
A PDF of the faculty applicant’s current CV.

CAMPOS Faculty Affiliates

Clare Casteel

CAMPOS Faculty Affiliate and Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology

Dr. Casteel studies molecular genetics of plant signaling and defense in response to insect vectors and the pathogens they transmit.

The Casteel Lab

Yvette Flores

UC Davis ADVANCE Social Sciences Research Initiative Co-Director and Co-Investigator, CAMPOS Committee Member, Professor of Chicana/o Studies

Faculty Website

Yvette Flores is a Professor of Chicana/o Studies at University of California, Davis and Co-Investigator of Ninos Sanos/Familia Sana, a USDA-funded study focused on reducing overweight and obesity among Mexican origin children. Dr. Flores holds a Masters Degree in Community-Clinical Psychology from California State University, Long Beach and a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from UC Berkeley (1982). She has worked as a research psychologist, university professor, and licensed psychologist for almost three decades.She has done research in health psychology, in particular substance abuse treatment outcomes and intimate partner violence.

Her current research examines intimate partner violence among Mexicans on both sides of the border. Her publications reflect her life’s work of bridging clinical psychology and Chicano/Latino studies, as she foregrounds gender, ethnicity and sexualities in her clinical, teaching and research practices.

Miguel Jaller

CAMPOS Faculty Affiliate and Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Faculty webpage

Dr. Jaller studies industrial and transportation engineering, sustainable transportation systems, humanitarian logistics, supply chain management and operations research.

Susan Kauzlarich

UC Davis ADVANCE CAMPOS Initiative Committee Member, Professor and Chair of Chemistry

Faculty Webpage

Susan Kauzlarich is Professor and Chair of Chemistry at UC Davis. Her research interests include synthesis of novel inorganic solids, inorganic nanomaterials for energy applications. In particular, applications of Zintl formalism to the search for new materials with useful properties. Specialties include: thermoelectric materials, nanoparticles for photovoltaic and optoelectrontic applications, nanoparticles as biological probes and for drug delivery.

In addition to numerous research grants, she is the recipient of the 2013 Francis P. Garvan–John M. Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society for “distinguished service to chemistry by women chemists.” Prof. Kauzlarich holds a Ph.D. from Michigan State University.

Susan M. Kauzlarich wins Garvan-Olin Medal from the American Chemical SocietyProfessor of Chemistry

Susan M. Kauzlarich, UC Davis Professor of Chemistry, received the 2013 Francis P. Garvan–John M. Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society for “distinguished service to chemistry by women chemists.

Lorena Oropeza

CAMPOS Faculty Affiliate and Associate Professor of History

Faculty Webpage

Dr. Oropeza studies the nexus between race and foreign policy: Chicano protest to the Vietnam war, themes of race and empire, Chicano/a history, the history of American foreign relations, post-1945 U.S. history, 1960s U.S. social protest, settler colonialism an and oral history.

Kent Pinkerton

UC Davis ADVANCE CAMPOS Initiative Committee Member, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine Professor-In-Residence, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine

Faculty webpage

Kent Pinkerton holds joint appointments in the School of Medicine and School of Veterinary Medicine, and Director of the Center for Health and the Environment. He studies the health effects of environmental air pollutants on lung structure and function and the interaction of gases and airborne particles within specific sites and cell populations of the lungs in acute and chronic lung injury. He also researches the effects of environmental tobacco smoke on lung growth and development.

Dr. Pinkerton has received many honors and awards including the University of California Distinguished Teaching Citation (2008), Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, School of Veterinary Medicine (2006) and the School of Veterinary Medicine Favorite Teacher Award (Class of 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2003). In 2010, he was a Visiting Professor at Nanjing Medical University, China. He completed his Ph.D. degree in Pathology at Duke University.

Mary Lou de Leon Siantz

UC Davis ADVANCE CAMPOS Initiative Founding Director and Social Sciences Research Initiative Co-Investigator, Professor of Nursing
Faculty website

Mary Lou de Leon Siantz is a professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis. She is nationally recognized for her interdisciplinary efforts to prepare health professionals for leadership and policy, and internationally respected for her research in migrant health. As a professor at the School of Nursing, de Leon Siantz teaches, conducts research and mentors students in leadership policy and population health.Her research most recently focused on the impact of migration on the health and development of Hispanic migrant/immigrant children and families.Her current research, funded through the Office of Minority Health Department of Health and Human Service, focuses on the development of educational strengths of Hispanic immigrant adolescents and the promotion of their reproductive awareness.

De Leon Siantz is the associate director of the Community Engagement and Research Program of the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center. This program connects health researchers with communities of all kinds to ensure discoveries are translated into real-world interventions. She is also an affiliated faculty member with the Migration and Health Research Center, a collaboration between the UC Davis and UC Berkeley campuses that is dedicated to conducting research to improve the health of migrant populations in California and around the globe.

Cristina González

CAMPOS Faculty Affiliate and Professor of Spanish Emerita

Faculty webpage

Dr. González researches medieval and early modern Hispanic literature, contemporary Hispanic culture, Latino identity and the history and philosophy of higher education.

Denneal Jamison-McClung

Interim Director of UC Davis Biotechnology Program, Director of BioTech SYSTEM

Dr. Denneal Jamison-McClung directs the UC Davis Biotechnology Program, housed within the campus Office of Research, and leads educational programs for doctoral students and early stage scientists and engineers interested in translational research (IP, regulatory paradigms, public-private partnerships and the “business of biotech”). Doctoral programs housed within the Biotechnology Program include the Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology (DEB), training over 200 PhD students across 29 STEM disciplines, and the Advanced Degree Program (ADP) for Corporate Employees.

In addition to administering and teaching biotech graduate courses and workshops in science communication, science policy and social entrepreneurship, Dr. Jamison-McClung is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in STEM. She serves as an ex officio member of the UC Davis ADVANCE management team, as an editorial board member for the Our Voices blog and as the founder of Biotech Leaders Advancing STEM Technologies (BLAST), a professional development organization for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and early career scientists.

Through the BioTech SYSTEM, a regional consortium promoting K-14 STEM education, she develops and instructs “train-the-trainer” workshops for secondary and post-secondary life science teachers, keeping regional high school and community college classrooms up-to-speed with the latest research advances in genomics and data analysis. As a course instructor at Sacramento State University (2002-2006) and UC Davis (2002-present), she taught majors and non-majors courses in biology, plant physiology, genetics, molecular biology, genomics and bioinformatics at undergraduate and graduate levels.

In the broader context of fostering science literacy across diverse segments of society, with focus on agriculture and global food security, Dr. Jamison-McClung interacts with international scientists, policy makers, media outlets, corporate and community groups. As a public intellectual, she aims to facilitate civic discussions and rational evaluation of emerging technologies, actively communicating about science, STEM education and agriculture via social media outlets, including Twitter (@yggdrasil13751) and LinkedIn.

Program Websites:

UC Davis Biotechnology Program http://biotech.ucdavis.edu/
BioTech SYSTEM http://biotechsystem.ucdavis.edu/
Teen Biotech Challenge http://teenbiotechchallenge.ucdavis.edu/index.html

Social Media and Blogs:

Twitter http://twitter.com/yggdrasil13751
LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/dsjamisonmcclung/
Our Voices Blog https://womeninstem.ucdavis.edu/
GMOAnswers http://gmoanswers.com/experts/denneal-jamison-mcclung-phd

“My goal as a science educator is to help diverse audiences evaluate emerging technologies in medicine, agriculture, and natural resource management. Providing non-specialists with a science-based frame of reference is key to rational assessment of the relative risks and societal benefits of new technologies.”

Karen McDonald

UC Davis ADVANCE Co-Principal Investigator, Professor of Chemical Engineering

Faculty Webpage

Research Group Webpage

Dr. Karen McDonald is a Co-Principal Investigator of the UC Davis ADVANCE Program and Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering at UC Davis for 13 years prior to joining the UC Davis ADVANCE program. In addition, Dr. McDonald is the Principal Investigator of an NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) training program entitled “Collaborative Research and Education in Agricultural Technologies and Engineering (CREATE)”, Co-Director of the NIH Training Program in Biomolecular Technology and Co-Director of NSF RESOURCE Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education Program at UC Davis. Her research is focused on the development and optimization of plant-based expression systems and bioprocesses for production of recombinant proteins with applications to biofuel and biopharmaceutical production.

Dr. McDonald joined UC Davis in 1985 after completing her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. She was the first female faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering and one of the first few in the College of Engineering at UC Davis. As the PI of an initial NSF grant in 1991 and as Co-PI of an NSF grant in 1994, she helped establish the Women in Engineering Center at UC Davis (now part of WISE), developed novel hands-on courses on “How Things Work” to enhance retention of women engineering undergraduate students, and implemented faculty workshops on Exploring the Academic Environment for Women in Engineering.

Kyaw Tha Paw U

UC Davis ADVANCE CAMPOS Initiative Committee Member, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Biometeorologist

Faculty Webpage

Kyaw Tha Paw U is a Professor of Atmospheric Science and Biometeorologist in the Agricultural Experiment Station, at the University of California, Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources. His research and teaching activities have been recognized by international awards. His team of students and other colleagues studies the turbulent exchange of trace gases, heat, radiation, and momentum between vegetation and the atmosphere. The team uses advanced computer simulations and field experiments to determine plant ecosystem carbon uptake, water transpiration, methane and nitrous oxide release, the fluid physics of turbulent air flow, and the effects of vegetation on regional scale weather. He and his students teach atmospheric science and plant biology courses.

Paw U is part of the Women’s Resources and Research Center WISE mentoring program. His past and current social justice and equity activities include being a member and Chair of the UCD and UC Systemwide Affirmative Action and Diversity Committees; membership on the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Equity and Diversity committee, the University of California President’s Taskforce on Faculty Diversity, and the Campus Council on Community and Diversity; and being a co-PI on a Ford Foundation funded Institute for Women’s Leadership (Rutgers University) grant to UCD (Re-affirming Action: Designs for Diversity in Higher Education) resulting in the co-authored report, “Unprecedented urgency: Gender discrimination in faculty hiring at the University of California,” (West, Lokke, Laky, Paw U and Ham).

Jeffrey Sherman

CAMPOS Faculty Affiliate and Professor of Psychology

Faculty Webpage

Dr. Sherman studies the cognitive processes underlying social psychology and behavior; how people perceive themselves, other people and groups of people; how people acquire stereotypes and prejudice; how stereotypes and prejudice affect our perceptions and memories of others, and the extent to which these biases are efficient or even automatic.