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.

The Switzer Foundation’s Fellowship Program recognizes the achievements of environmental leaders and their potential to drive positive change. This year they made 20 nation-wide awards. UC Davis has two of the recipients: Erin Satterthwaite is a PhD candidate in the Ecology Graduate Program studying the movement of marine young to better identify habitats that are priority marine conservation areas, and Autumn Bernstein is a M.S. student in Transportation and Technology studying the role of regional transportation agencies in advancing California’s climate change and sustainability mandates. The award offers $15K per student for academic expenses.

The Ford Foundation Fellowship is an extremely competitive diversity award administered by the National Academy. The Ford fellowship offers $ 24K/year for three years. Maxine Umeh-Garcia, a graduate student in Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, received a predoctoral fellowship

Unprecedented, UC Davis “cleaned up” the award list for the Delta Science Fellowship with 7 of 12 awards. The two year award offers approximately $ 104,444 per fellow, covering stipend, fees, and a research allowance. Awardees include  Huajin (Jessica) Chen, Hydrological Science Graduate Program; Brittany Davis, Animal Biology Graduate Program; Denise DeCarion, Ecology Graduate Program; Jennifer Harfmann, Agriculture and Environmental Chemistry; Megan Kelso, Ecology Graduate Program; Alison Whipple, Hydrologic Sciences; and Julie Hopper, a UC Davis postdoctoral researcher, Environmental Science and Policy.

 UC Davis has 30 new winners of the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, which offers an extremely prestigious three year award totaling $138,000 per student. Currently we have 130 fellows, representing almost 18 million dollars in funding in a variety of social science and STEM graduate programs. The UC Davis NSF GRFP program has almost doubled in size since 2010.