General News

A special reception honoring the donors of the Soderquist Matching Fund Initiative for Graduate Student Support was held on the afternoon of Wednesday, Nov. 20 at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center.

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in STEM disciplines often face new obstacles when publishing is required.

New Graduate Diversity Officer of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Josephine Moreno, Ph.D., presented information on establishing successful mentoring relationships with new graduate students.

The second MCT event of the academic year featured special guest instructor Bill Lindstaedt, Director of the Office of Career and Professional Development at UCSF.

On January 23, 2014, the annual lunch reception was held in honor of the William G. Golden, Jr. and Kathleen H. Golden International Agriculture Fellowship at UC Davis. Vice Provost of Graduate Education and Dean of Graduate Studies Jeffery Gibeling and four the of five fellows attended to receive Mrs. Golden as the guest of honor.

Congratulations to two recipients of the UC Davis HumanCorps' 2007-2008 Community Service Awards. The Graduate Student Community Service Committee (GSCSC), with over 350 collective service hours contributed during the last school year, was the proud winner of a Group Award. Brandy Wiegers, doctoral candidate in Applied Math, earned the distinction of Outstanding Graduate Student for her work with the GSCSC and the Explore Math program. For a complete list of honorees, see theHumanCorps website.

For the third year in a row, a Cultural Studies grad student has been awarded the prestigious American Association of University Women (AAUW) dissertation fellowship. Big congratulations go out to Winnie Tam! (And "great job" to her dissertation director, Michael P. Smith.)

Congratulations on winning the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2008:

We've known all along that our support of graduate education reaches far beyond our own UC Davis campus, and Robert (Bob) Gilbertson's recent trip to Mali, West Africa is one example of our global collaboration and impact.

Bob (Professor, Plant Pathology) was in Mali participating in the Ph.D. dissertation defense exam of student Moussa Noussourou. Bob was a co-advisor of Moussa, along with Dr. Rick Foster of Purdue University and Professor Hamidou Maiga of the University of Bamako.

UC Davis graduate student alumna Dr. Emily Prieto was highlighted in the spring 2008 issue of “ADELANTE!”, a newsletter created by National Hispanic Science Network (NHSN) and the Summer Research Training Institute (SRTI) and distributed to their Fellows.

Emily attended SRTI in 2004 when she was a doctoral student at UC Davis. While at UC Davis, Emily won the Walker Award for Outstanding Academic Staff Advisor in 2005. Her graduate work focused on HIV interventions for hard-to-reach populations in Mexico.