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Graduate Students in Humanities and Arts Display Creativity in Exhibition

An expansive exhibition by UC Davis graduate students from studio art, design, music, creative writing, English, art history, theatre and cultural studies opens May 29 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. The annual exhibition by students in the College of Letters and Science will be on display through June 16.

Arts

Statistics Fellowship for Professor Debashis Paul

Professor of Statistics Debashis Paul has been elected to Fellowship in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. IMS Fellowship honors the outstanding research and professional contributions of members in the field of statistics and probability. Each newly-elected Fellow will be presented with a plaque during the IMS awards ceremony on July 29, 2019, at the Joint Statistical Meetings/IMS Annual Meeting in Denver.  

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In Memoriam: Thomas Cahill, professor emeritus of physics and atmospheric sciences

Thomas Cahill, professor emeritus of physics and atmospheric sciences, died from complications of cancer on April 30, 2019, in Davis. He was 82.

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Spanish Professor Wins Fellowship to Study Graphic Novels on Illness

For an investigation into comics and graphic novels that address illness, Diana Aramburu, an assistant professor of Spanish, has received a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship.

Society and Culture

Five Faculty Honored by Academic Senate

The UC Davis Academic Senate and Academic Federation have recognized five faculty in the College of Letters and Science for their outstanding teaching, research and public service.

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Fellowship for Professor to Study Arab Immigrant Community in SF Bay Area

Sunaina Maira, a professor of Asian American studies in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science, has been awarded a Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies fellowship to explore how the Arab community in the San Francisco Bay Area is dealing with the fallout from those travel ban restrictions.

Society and Culture

In Memoriam: Geophysicist Louise Kellogg Remembered for Visionary Science, Kindness

Louise Kellogg, a leading geophysicist known as a compassionate mentor and advocate for open science, died of cancer April 15 at her home in Vacaville. She was 59.

Science

English Professor Gives Folger’s Annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture

Gina Bloom, UC Davis English professor, will give the 2019 Shakespeare Birthday Lecture at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Her talk, “Rough Magic: Performing Shakespeare With Gaming Technology,” will take place April 22 at the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C. The birthday lecture has been held nearly every year since 1932.

Arts

Faculty in History and English Named Guggenheim Fellows

Two UC Davis College of Letters and Science faculty members have been awarded 2019 Guggenheim Fellowships. History professor Ari Kelman and English professor Elizbeth Carolyn Miller will receive the prestigious awards. They are among 173 winners in the U.S. and Canada selected from 3,000 applicants.

Society and Culture

Design Professor Katia Vega Honored as a Leading Woman in STEM by Johnson & Johnson

Katia Vega, an assistant professor in the Department of Design in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science, has been selected as one of six winners of the Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM2D (WiSTEM2D) Scholars Award.

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