The Koret Foundation has granted $4 million to undergraduate career-preparation programs across UC Davis. Part of Koret’s Higher Education Initiative, the grant will provide signifcant support for Aggie Launch, the Big Idea that integrates career exploration and readiness in the undergraduate experience.
Cassandra Hart, an associate professor in the UC Davis School of Education, will be conducting a study this fall to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students in California Community Colleges.
This new fellowship program recognizes early-career nursing scholars and innovators with a high potential to accelerate leadership in nursing-science research, practice, education, policy and entrepreneurship.
Yang is among 22 early-career scientists and engineers nationwide to receive the prestigious award this year. Each will be awarded $875,000 over five years to pursue their research. He is the first recipient of the Packard Fellowship in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at UC Davis.
The DataLab at the UC Davis Library, led by executive director Carl Stahmer, has been awarded a two-year, $274,500 grant by the Getty Foundation to tackle one of the thorniest problems in image recognition: building a tool to search for and identify images that are similar — though not identical — to one another.
The Hartwell Foundation awarded Heffern, an assistant professor in the College of Letters and Science’s Department of Chemistry, a 2018 Individual Biomedical Research Award to study metal micronutrient status as a biomarker and treatment target for obesity and metabolic disease.
Warren Winiarski, grape grower, winemaker, land preservationist and philanthropist has gifted $3.3 million to build the most comprehensive collection of wine writers’ works in the world at the UC Davis Library.
