Announcements

Graduate Studies is pleased to announce the top ten finalists for the 2018 Grad Slam competition at UC Davis.

UC Grad Slam is an annual contest in which master’s and Ph.D. students across UC campuses – in disciplines ranging from hard sciences to humanities – compete to sum up their research for a general audience. Students present the significance and fundamental points of their work at UC Davis in a clear, direct and interesting manner.

UC Davis graduate student Vincent Josua Hellendoorn is among the diverse group of ten fellows accepted to the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Program for the 2018-2019 academic year, Microsoft’s research organization announced earlier this month.

Members of the UC Davis graduate education community:

The devastating impact of the fires in the Northern California region and the continued threat they pose to our community falls far too close to home.

Five UC Davis professors from a wide range of academic departments have been selected to receive Mentoring at Critical Transitions (MCT) fellowships.

Mentoring at Critical Transitions is a faculty development program offered by UC Davis Graduate Studies aimed at enhancing the preparedness of UC Davis faculty in areas affecting the mentoring, academic socialization, and overall success of the diverse graduate student population.

Today, the Department of Justice announced plans to phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that provides temporary authorization to work or attend school for undocumented people brought to the United States as children.