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14 graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from the University of California, Davis, have been named the 2019-2020 fellows in the Professors for the Future (PFTF) program.

Friends and colleagues call her the Corn Queen, but Katie Murphy can now claim another title: UC-wide Grad Slam champion. The UC Davis plant biology graduate student took home the top prize on May 10 for her three-minute talk on a biochemical hack that could help sick crops heal themselves.

Plant Biology graduate student Katie Murphy has been named the UC 2019 Grad Slam champion. UC Grad Slam is an annual contest in which master’s and Ph.D. students across UC campuses – in disciplines ranging from hard sciences to humanities – compete to sum up their research for a general audience. 

Integrative Genetics and Genomics Ph.D. student Marwa Zafarullah is among the members of the UC Davis community who has been recognized as an Aggie Hero.

Bennet Omalu,  clinical professor and associate physician of pathology and laboratory medicine at UC Davis Health as well as the president and medical director of Bennet Omalu Pathology, will be

On April 6, the University of California, Davis hosted the California Forums for Diversity in Graduate Education. The forums help promote a positive campus climate and social justice in higher education for advanced undergraduates and master’s candidates who belong to groups that are currently underrepresented in doctoral-level programs. During this day-long event, Davis hosted 1,400 prospective doctoral students from all over Northern California that included 28 workshops and panels and 200 graduate school recruiting tables.