UC Davis graduate students from the College of Letters and Science talk about their life and work on and off campus. Nahrain Rasho is a Ph.D. student in the Political Science graduate program at UC Davis.

UC Davis graduate students from the College of Letters and Science talk about their life and work on and off campus. Ryan Manning is a Ph.D. student in the psychology graduate program at UC Davis.

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.

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 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. 

UC Davis graduate students from the College of Letters and Science talk about their life and work on and off campus. Monica Rodriguez Guevara is a 4th year Ph.D. student

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.

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.

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. 

The American Physiological Society (APS) recently announced the 2018 Graduate Student Ambassadors (GSA): Arik Davidyan, Kamila Migdal, Chelsea Weaver, Oluwatobiloba "Deborah" Osikoya. The GSA Program provides an opportunity for graduate student members of APS to serve as a liaison to promote physiology and the APS within their local universities. The 2018 class of ambassadors join the 2017 GSAs to build leadership and outreach skills, promote physiology, and increase awareness of the benefits of APS membership.

External fellowships are those offered by private foundations, government agencies, and corporations.  A variety of support is given, from one-time awards to multi-year support.  Aside from the obvious financial benefit, receipt of external funding exemplifies excellence in research, writing and scholarship. The External Fellowships Analysts help facilitate the external fellowships process, from pre-award application review to award closeout.  

Three UC Davis graduate students, Lauren Howe (International Agricultural Development), Erik Grijalva (Ecology), and Matthew Williamson (Ecology), have achieved the high honor of being selected as Switzer Environmental Fellows by the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation. 

As a master’s student at the University of Michigan, Allison Injaian studied the behaviors of a unique species of wasp. Named Polistes fuscatus, these wasps—much like humans—recognize one another based on facial markings. For an organism with such a tiny brain compared to humans, the mastery of such specialized visual learning was described by Injaian’s advisor and lab mentor Professor Elizabeth Tibbetts as “surprising and sort of bizarre.”

The creative writing program, part of the College of Letters and Science’s English department, will offer a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing starting in the 2019–2020 academic year.