The Graduate Student Child Care Grant (GSCCG) Program is a financial need-blind grant for graduate and professional students that provides a $900 per quarter/$1350 per semester regardless of financial need. Please note, the GSCCG can be supplemented with additional funds from the CBCG program for those students who demonstrate financial need.

Capitalizing on experimental genetic techniques, researchers at the California National Primate Research Center, or CNPRC, at the University of California, Davis, have demonstrated that temporarily turning off an area of the brain changes patterns of activity across much of the remaining brain.

The research suggests that alterations in the functional connectivity of the brain in humans may be used to determine the sites of pathology in complex disorders such as schizophrenia and autism.

The research is published online July 20 in the journal Neuron.

Given that elephants are the largest land mammals on the planet, one might expect that when it comes to enclosures for zoo elephants, size matters.

However, a newly released study in which the University of California, Davis, played a key role reveals that social interactions and having an array of opportunities to engage with their surroundings may be more important to elephants’ welfare than space.

UC Davis graduate students continue to prove the excellence of their research by winning prestigious fellowship awards. These highly competitive grants will help our outstanding graduate students to be leaders in research, innovation, and social change.

Without excellent faculty mentors at both the undergrad and graduate levels, assisting with research, funding and sheer encouragement, Gail Bornhorst is certain she would not be where she is now: an assistant professor in Biological & Agricultural Engineering. Since turnabout is fair play, she strives to be as effective a mentor for her graduate students, now also her mentees, Yamile Govela and Krista Drechsler, both in biological systems engineering.

Kent Leach, professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Orthopedic Surgery, was a first-generation college student. He remembers the struggle to find guidance throughout his developing academic career. “To this day, my parents still scratch their head as to why I turned down jobs after graduating from college, much less pursue graduate school and a postdoc,” he says.  “I was certainly learning what I wanted as I went along.”

As an undergraduate student and a first-generation college graduate, Terry Nathan assumed he would follow a traditional career path once he obtained his graduate degree in atmospheric science. Becoming a university professor never even occurred to him, until his graduate thesis advisor, who demonstrated by example the importance of mentorship, introduced the possibility of a university career.

In the near-decade that Annaliese Franz has mentored both graduate and undergraduate students through her research lab, she’s seen an evolution of change, impact, and challenges. “We place an immense significance on mentoring, yet the word can be used differently by many people, and so the concept can become vague,” she says.

When UC Davis alum Carol A. Hess was offered a professorship of music at UC Davis, it was little wonder that she was a Target of Excellence hire: In the early 1990s, Hess had been UC Davis’s first PhD in musicology. “I was thrilled to return to such a fine department and to work with PhD students, which I hadn't done in my previous positions,” she says.

Since the leave policy for funded graduate students went into effect nearly a year ago, 20 students have taken advantage of it. Nadia Ono, Kayce Davis and Rachel Toaff-Rosenstein were among the first. For varying reasons, they took leaves without needing to worry about reduced income during a period of family or medical need.

The 2016 Provost Awards Ceremony marks the fourth year of what has become a UC Davis tradition. The Provost Fellowship provides incentive for new graduate students and recognizes the excellence of those approaching departure from their UC Davis journey (although many would say a part of UC Davis always stays with them). The distinction is captured with the two categories of Provost Fellowships: one for first-year students, and the other for dissertation-year students.

When asked to tell the tale of his dreamy escapade with the Blue Angels Team, he looks down and his grin stretches into a contagious smile.

“The reason why I got to do this is because there is a preexisting connection between the University and many employers who reach out to students through the Career Fair,” JP explains, trying to contain his boyish excitement. “All kinds of employers attend our Career Fairs, including the Navy, the Army, the Marines and many others.”

Jean-Pierre Delplanque is a recent addition (and asset) to Graduate Studies—serving as the new Associate Dean for Students in Graduate Studies. His experience with students from a variety of angles—on top of his personal experience as an international graduate student himself—equips him with the ability to work closely with the diverse UC Davis community. 

Imagine you’re in an elevator, zooming up to the penthouse of a skyscraper. How would you pitch your years of graduate research to an audience—in under just three minutes? The University of California is adopting the “TED talk on steroids” structure of Grad Slam yet again for 2016, giving you a chance to showcase your presentation and entertainment skills.

On November 18, 2015, Graduate Studies and the Internship and Career Center hosted an exciting new event for graduate students and postdocs: the Ph.D. Connector, which buzzed with the 211 students and 33 career specialists in attendance. Think Jay Gatsby’s extravagant parties, but through the contemporary tinted glass walls of the UC Davis Conference Center—with an attendee list composed of professionals and advanced degree holders rather than the residents of West and East Egg.