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CHANCELL-ING: Key Step Toward Equity, Student Success


Preparing students to succeed in a workforce that’s increasingly diverse and global gets to the heart of our mission at UC Davis. So, it’s incumbent that we remove barriers for students who have been historically excluded from higher education and create additional opportunities for these populations.


Chancellor May sits on stage in front of crowd of middle school and high school students seated at round tables wearing bright green tshirts. Ebony Lewis is at podium talking to crowd.

DEI Summer Event Inspires 100+ Inspiring Young Scholars


This past July, UC Davis hosted more than 120 middle and high school students for a day-long campus visit.


Chancellor May, Professor Augustine O. Esogbue and Doreen Joseph stand in courtyard at Chancellor's residence.

Doreen Joseph Receives Inaugural Esogbue-May Award in Engineering Diversity


Doreen Joseph, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of California, Davis, is the inaugural recipient of the Professor Emeritus Augustine O.




AAFSA Aggie Acknowledgement - updated

Aggie Acknowledgements: Summer 2024


Aggie Black Excellence presents Summer 2024 AAFSA Aggie Acknowledgements.


2024 Sacramento Business Journal DEI Champions. Associate Vice Chancellor Hendry Ton with photo. Vice Chancellor Renetta Garrison Tull with photo. UC Davis diversity equity and inclusion logo

Champions for DEI


The Sacramento Business Journal has named two leaders from UC Davis as Champions for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Renetta Garrison Tull, vice chancellor of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Hendry Ton, associate vice chancellor for Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, were among the six people and seven organizations the publication honored.


Vice Chancellor Renetta Tull stands with members of PROMISE Engineering Institute Mentoring Academy

UC Davis Receives NSF Funding to Expand Leadership Opportunities for Engineering Graduate Students


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.


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Principles of Community Week: Celebrating A Pioneer in Health Equity – Dr. Jann Murray-García


During February 12–16, the UC Davis campuses in Davis and Sacramento celebrated Principles of Community Week — a time spent reflecting on the shared aspiration to advance respect, equity, learning and community. This year, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion was delighted to highlight Dr. Jann Murray-García of UC Davis Health. Murray-García’s inspirational career embodies the principles and its core values.


Cynthia Miller-Idriss speaks at the Mondavi Center on Feb. 5. She is seated in a blue chair on stage and is wearing a bright teal coat and black pants and is speaking into a microphone.

A Book to Combat Extremism at Home


The Mondavi Center hosted Miller-Idriss on Feb. 5. She is an expert on identifying and combating extremism worldwide, and her book, Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, was the 2023-24 selection for the UC Davis Campus Community Book Project.


Collage of six pictures. Three Buffalo Soldiers in uniform holding flags. Dr. Faheema Mustafaa at a podium in front of a large presentation screen that says "Healing through Scholarship and Awareness: Black Adolescent Girls on Defining Well-Being, and Identifying Supports and Threats to Well-Being. Dr. Ebony Lewis performing. Kimberly Evans speaking with James Aboagye holding a microphone. Kast Academy Dancers in colorful clothing. Denisha "Coco" Bland performing in front of a presentation screen.

"Together We Heal" Juneteenth 2023


On Sunday, June 4, UC Davis hosted the community for an early celebration of Juneteenth. DEI's Aggie Black Excellence project presented one segment of the full day program, which featured healing, tributes to veterans and youth performance.


Addressing the Power of Untold Stories Through Photography


LaToya Ruby Frazier calls for a new ‘photo league’ to draw attention to injustices 

This article originally appeared on the UC Davis Arts Blog by Miche