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Two University of California graduate students have been selected by UC Agriculture and Natural Resources as UC Global Food Initiative (GFI) fellows for 2018-19. Graduate students Melanie Colvin at UC Berkeley and Maci Mueller at UC Davis will work with ANR academics and staff to conduct and communicate about UC research for improved food security and agricultural sustainability.

UC Davis graduate student Alex San Pablo ’18 has found a support structure at UC Davis that sustains her in uncertain times, just like the structures she hopes to build one day as a civil engineer.

Mayowa Adegboyega, Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology has assumed the role of Graduate Student Assistant to the Dean of Graduate Studies and to the Chancellor (GSADC) for the 2018-2019 academic year.

UC Davis Chemistry graduate student and NIH-funded trainee of the Chemical Biology program Diedra Shorty talks about how she became a scientist and what attracted her to the field of Chemistry, even though it was her worst subject in high school.

UC Davis Graduate Studies has selected three UC Davis professors and their students as the recipients of this year's Wakeham Mentoring Fellowships, an honor given to faculty and their mentees to support the exploration of mentoring best practices. 

The UC Davis online graduate application for the 2018-2019 academic year is now open. A leader across a wide variety of academic disciplines, UC Davis offers professional schools in business management, education, law, medicine and nursing, and is the only UC with a school of veterinary medicine. UC Davis is ranked second in the world for teaching and research in agriculture and forestry and first for veterinary sciences by QS World University Rankings.

Monica Monica Rodriguez Guevara is a 4th year Ph.D. student in the economics graduate program at UC Davis.

The American Physiological Society (APS) recently announced the 2018 Graduate Student Ambassadors (GSA): Arik Davidyan, Kamila Migdal, Chelsea Weaver, Oluwatobiloba "Deborah" Osikoya.

Today, UC Davis Ph.D. graduate Erwin Bautista teaches classes with as many as 500 students, an ambitious amount of minds to keep engaged. Bautista wants to help his students connect the small dots so they can see the big picture. And that’s a philosophy he carries with him in his day-to-day life. 

Professor Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor has been named our new Acting Associate Dean for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars and Professor Duncan Temple Lang will serve as Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Programs.