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NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Expedition 24 flight engineer, looks through a window in the Cupola of the International Space Station.

Aggie Alum and Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson to Travel to Space for Third Time

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Managing Resources in a Water-Limited World

  • by Becky Oskin
An interdisciplinary team from UC Davis is collaborating with the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education—the largest graduate water education facility in the world, based in the Netherlands—to develop a summer school on “Sustainable Water Management in a Water-Limited World.”
Angie Ni at HackDavis

Code for Social Good

  • by Becky Oskin
Held in January 2020, the UC Davis hackathon brought together more than 600 of the most talented students in California to develop apps that address the world's most pressing social issues. 
Assistant professor of chemistry Jesús Velázquez

UC Davis Chemistry Professor Named Cottrell Scholar

  • by Becky Oskin
Assistant professor of chemistry Jesús Velázquez has received a $100,000 Cottrell Scholar Award for his leadership in research and education. He is one of 25 scholars throughout the U.S. given the award in 2020, and the first UC Davis professor recognized with the award.
Roger Casals

Sloan Fellowship for Mathematician Roger Casals

  • by Becky Oskin
Caustics are patterns that emerge from the reflection of light rays from surfaces — such as the glitter of sunlight on wavelets in the UC Davis Arboretum. The mathematics that explains caustics is called contact geometry. That’s the speciality of Roger Casals Gutierrez, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics. Casals was recently awarded both a Sloan Research Fellowship and a NSF CAREER award to support his work.
Portrait photo of UC Davis historian and administrator Ari Kelman

Ari Kelman Named Interim Dean

Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter named historian Ari Kelman, an associate dean of the UC Davis College of Letters and Science, to serve as the college’s interim dean starting March 21, 2020. Kelman has agreed to serve until the campus identifies a permanent successor to Elizabeth Spiller, who steps down March 20 to become executive vice chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Photo of UC Davis muralist and two students, with mural in background and paints on table in foreground.

Chancellor's Fellows Honors Go to Four College Faculty

  • by Kathleen Holder
Four associate professors in the College of Letters and Science recently were named Chancellor’s Fellows for excellence in their research, creative work, teaching and service. The college's newest Chancellor's Fellows include an expert on immigrant family well-being, an artist/author, a political theorist and an archaeologist.
Isao Fujimoto takes a selfie with students at a recent event honoring him.

Isao Fujimoto’s Scholarship, Activism and Caring Leaves Deep Impression

  • by Jeffrey A Day

During his four decades as a lecturer at UC Davis and nearly 60 years as a community organizer, Isao Fujimoto has touched thousands of lives. Each one seems to remember him, and he remembers each one. Former students, colleagues and friends from near and far celebrated the life and work of Fujimoto, 86, a founder of the UC Davis Asian American studies program, at a recent symposium.

Side by side portraits of UC Davis psychology professors

Two Faculty Honored for Contributions to Science of Psychology

  • by Kathleen Holder
Two faculty in the Department of Psychology — Professor Paul Hastings and Associate Professor Eliza Bliss-Moreau — have been named fellows of the Association for Psychological Science (APS). Hastings and Bliss-Moreau are among 51 psychologists in the newest class of APS fellows, selected for “sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service, and/or application.”
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