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.
