Announcements

UC Davis graduate programs made a strong showing in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 graduate school ranking, with the School of Veterinary Medicine earning the top spot in its category and several other programs making significant gains.

Graduate Studies has announced the finalists in the 2019 Grad Slam competition at the University of California, Davis.  UC Grad Slam is an annual contest in which master’s and Ph.D. students across UC campuses – in disciplines ranging from hard sciences to humanities – compete to sum up their research for a general audience. Students present the significance and fundamental points of their work at UC Davis in a clear, direct and interesting manner.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is a program of the U.S. Department of State, funded by an annual appropriation from the U.S. Congress to the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and supported in its implementation by the Institute of International Education.

Graduate Studies is carefully monitoring the impact of the partial federal shutdown on graduate students and postdoctoral scholars supported by federal funding. We anticipate that new awards, funding increments, payments, and prior approvals will not be forthcoming from the impacted agencies under a shutdown. However, if you are applying for a grant, please submit your application by the deadline published in the funding opportunity announcement, regardless of the status of the government shutdown.

Jean-Pierre “JP” Delplanque, who has been serving as interim vice provost and dean of Graduate Studies since July, has been appointed to the post on a permanent basis by Chancellor Gary S. May. The appointment, effective Jan. 1, follows a campuswide recruitment and a selection process that included public forums with the candidates.

The Graduate Education Certificate program provides essential knowledge for campus staff and advisors on how best to support graduate students and manage graduate programs.  The courses provide an overview of several areas key to graduate student success and exploration of policies and procedures in graduate education. To receive certification, you must complete all five foundational courses and two electives. 

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.

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.

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.

Five marketing, communication and development projects from UC Davis have earned international honors from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE.

The five Circle of Excellence awards — the most earned by any University of California institution — follow 38 awards UC Davis earned in regional CASE competition earlier this year.

The projects awarded Circle of Excellence awards were produced by staff from the offices of Strategic Communications, Graduate Studies, and Development and Alumni Relations.

With a total of $17,500 in prize money, UC Davis postdoctoral scholar Denise Bronner had the highest winnings of the night for Anu Snacks of Sacramento, which makes all-natural snacks from the spent grain of microbreweries. 

On May 23, UC Davis Graduate Studies continued the tradition of recognizing  some of the most exemplary teaching, research and mentoring taking place within the UC Davis graduate education community at the 2018 Graduate Studies Honors and Awards Ceremony in the ARC Ballroom.

Honorees and their family, friends, and colleagues gathered to celebrate some of  this year's most notable academic accomplishments from faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars alike. 

Author and business futurist Robert B. Tucker, ’78, will return to UC Davis as the keynote speaker for the 2018 Graduate Studies Commencement at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 14, at the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) Pavilion.

14 graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from the University of California, Davis, have been named the 2018-2019 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.

Tooka Zokaie, a public health graduate student working with Gerald Kayingo, an assistant clinical professor at the Betty Irene School of Nursing at UC Davis, won first place in last Thursday's UC Davis final round of Grad Slam, an annual contest in which master’s and Ph.D. students compete to sum up their research for a general audience.