General News

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.

Established in 1992, Professors for the Future is a year-long competitive fellowship program designed to develop the leadership skills of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who have demonstrated their commitment to professionalism, integrity, and academic service.

Ph.D. candidate Rebecca Hogue has been awarded a prestigious Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2019-20. The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship is a national competition awarded to 65 graduate students in the humanities and social sciences across the United States for a one-year term to support their last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. The title of Rebecca’s dissertation is “Archipelagos of Resistance: Anti-Nuclear Writing of Oceania, 1975-2018.”

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 the the keynote speaker for the 2019 Graduate Studies Commencement at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 13, 2019 at the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) Pavilion.

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.

In the hunt for therapeutics to treat mood disorders, UC Davis researchers have turned to compounds found in psychedelics. Neuroscience Ph.D. student Lindsay Cameron is on the forefront of this research. Her research with the Olson Lab has shown that microsdosing rats with DMT can positively affect their mood and anxiety

Plant Biology Ph.D. Student Katherine Murphy studies terpenes, molecules that plants use to survive as immobile organisms. Murphy's research concerns medicinal terpenes found in corn. She wants to find out if these corn molecules could help bolster other crops’ defenses

Hannah Waterhouse is a graduate student in the Soils and Biogeochemistry graduate program at the University of California, Davis.

“Volunteer with the people you love and engage in the activities you are passionate about to bring more joy into this world,” says the personal website of Paul Terry. And the digital marketing and communications specialist for Graduate Studies is doing just that.

The doctoral program in music composition and theory has been around for nearly a quarter of a century, but in recent years has garnered much more attention. Because the program is in composition and theory, it opens doors for a wider range of career options, especially in academia.

UC Davis Magazine highlights the entrepreneurial successes of UC Davis alumni, many of whom are graduates of UC Davis graduate and professional programs.