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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.

The Genentech Foundation has donated $2.5 million to the University of California, Davis, College of Biological Sciences — the college’s largest single gift ever — to fund a program that will help biology students transferring from community college.

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.

Angelica Juarez has long track record for community service

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.

In addition to the greenhouses CA&ES is constructing, Mars, Incorporated is building two greenhouses within the complex to house a large collection of cacao plants. Together with UC Davis faculty, plant breeders from Mars, Incorporated will work to improve and perfect the tropical trees, which are endangered by deforestation.

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.

The executive is from a company with a market cap of nearly a quarter trillion dollars. The students have his full attention. It’s the finale of the Sustainable Energy Industry Immersion course and the student teams are presenting their solutions from a live case study posed by energy giant Chevron Corp.