Student Spotlights

Rooted in Community, Reaching for Discovery

When Nicole O’Shea came to the University of California, Davis, she was embarking on a new path away from her background in English and toward engineering. Not knowing exactly where her journey would take her, she has put down roots in the materials science field and grown a passion for inspiring and informing the next generation of materials researchers.

UC Davis Graduate Student Wins 2nd Place in UC Grad Slam

Yara Khatib, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Pharmacology and Toxicology Graduate Group, won second place in the UC Grad Slam competition held on April 29 at the UC Student and Policy Center in Sacramento. This is the first year the University of California hosted its systemwide competition in the state’s capital after moving it from the LinkedIn Center in San Francisco. Khatib competed against nine other graduate students representing each of the other universities in the University of California system.