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As a master’s student at the University of Michigan, Allison Injaian studied the behaviors of a unique species of wasp. Named Polistes fuscatus, these wasps—much like humans—recognize one another based on facial markings. For an organism with such a tiny brain compared to humans, the mastery of such specialized visual learning was described by Injaian’s advisor and lab mentor Professor Elizabeth Tibbetts as “surprising and sort of bizarre.”

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.

UC Davis graduate student Carina Fish has been named a 2018 recipient of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship.

It was 1970 and 10 year-old Josephine Moreno ’84 waited at the UC Davis Shields Library reading and flipping through some books as her sister, Rosemarie Moreno Elizondo ’74, was wrapping up her shift as a student library employee. Even as a child, Josephine felt comfortable and welcomed at the university. That feeling resonated with many family members as well, who would also go on to become UC Davis alumni.

For Karin Albornoz — a Ph.D. student studying Horticulture and Agronomy who works in a UC Davis lab on molecular biology of tomato postharvest chilling injury — that means getting out into the world to work directly with small-scale farmers.

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.

From May 4-8 2018, graduate students selected for the Research and Innovation Fellowship for Agriculture program (RIFA) attended the third annual RIFA Conference and Project Planning Short Course in Point Reyes, California in preparation for their upcoming international projects in agriculture, food systems, and development. 

Pictured: Graduate student Darcy Padilla's photos of California wildfire devastation are part of her photographic story on memory.

Students from seven disciplines — art, design, art history, music, theatre, creative writing and French — will be part of the annual Arts and Humanities Graduate Exhibition at UC Davis.

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. 

About 70 doctoral students from different departments — Integrative Genetics and Genomics, Food Science, Microbiology, Materials Science and Engineering — fill room 1022 in the UC Davis Life Sciences building for course MCB 294, “Current Progress in Biotechnology.”

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.

Sarah Messbauer is a doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology, studying the impacts of public arts policy on refugee communities in Canada. Messbauer recently completed her tenure as the 2016-2017 graduate student assistant to the dean and chancellor, where she engaged in programming and advocacy efforts aimed at improving the student experience for more than 8,000 graduate and professional students at UC Davis.

Mirroring a reality at universities across the U.S. and around the world, only a small percentage of doctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars conclude their studies at UC Davis and pursue a tenure-track faculty career at a university. A new program, Leaders for the Future, helps prepare students for success outside of academia.

Faculty and staff will be gathering at UC Davis’ Bodega Marine Laboratory this afternoon not for their weekly seminar but to remember their colleague Susan Williams who died in a car crash Tuesday (April 24) while en route to the Davis campus to teach.