Graduate Studies has named Jeanelle Hope, Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Studies, the Graduate Student Assistant to the Dean of Graduate Studies and to the Chancellor (GSADC) for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Amanda Eke, a 2015 UC Davis McNair scholar, is among the seven UC Davis students and alumni that have been awarded a prestigious Fulbright grant.

This article originally appeared in the California Aggie.

UC Davis has added seven national awards to the 29 regional honors it received earlier this year from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE, for development, marketing and communications projects.

The Graduate Student Fellowship Matching Initiative won a gold award in the category Fundraising: Principal, Major and Special Giving Programs.

After recently advising lawmakers on a statewide community solar plan being discussed in New Jersey, the next thing to be added to Safford's already-impressive résumé is a Ph.D. in environmental engineering at the University of California, Davis, with a focus on water resources.

Faith Sponsler, a graduating studio art MFA student, is the first recipient of the Keister & Allen Art Purchase Prize. The award is a purchase of a student’s artwork for the collection of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.

The award was announced at the opening of the “from this point forward” graduate student exhibition June 1.

This story originally appeared on USA Today College. 

While many students have just graduated from high school, 18-year-old Nigeria native Nkechinyere Chidi-Ogbolu is not your typical teen.

Mike Gil, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, will be one of 20 international fellows who will give talks at TEDGlobal in Arusha, Tanzania, in August. 

Five University of California, Davis professors have been named the recipients of the 2017 Distinguished Mentoring Award. The awards recognize the vital role mentoring plays in the academic and professional development of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars at UC Davis.  A certificate and $1,000 will be conferred to each awardee.

Physics doctoral student Rachel Houtz enjoys challenging problems, and studying theoretical particle physics gives her plenty to tackle. But one “not fun part” is feeling lonely and that you don’t belong — things she struggled with, especially as an undergraduate female in physics.

When people think of UC students, they usually think of undergraduates. But University of California campuses also host thousands of Ph.D. students — the best and brightest from around the world — who advance learning, teaching and original research across the system.

Together, UC’s 26,000 doctoral students are a powerful source of ideas and innovation for the state, and a foundation of UC’s excellence:

UC grad students serve as teachers and mentors to UC’s 200,000 undergrads, acting as a bridge between the learners and creators of new knowledge.