Announcements

As you know, UCPath opened for UC Davis and UC Davis Health employees on September 27. On the day of the launch, we sent preliminary UCPath login instructions to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.  We have a few reminders to share with you as we approach critical dates.

All appointments of graduate students for the 19-20 academic year should be paid with the new rates effective October 1, 2019.  

Today (September 27), UCPath went live for UC Davis and UC Davis Health employees. As such, Graduate Studies has compiled a set of instructions that graduate students and postdoctoral scholars should use to verify the accuracy of their employee data in the new system.

The time has come, prospective Aggies!

Earlier today (September 17), UC Davis Graduate Studies officially launched the online graduate application for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Brittani Orona is one of twenty environmental scholars chosen as 2019 recipients of the Switzer Environmental Fellowship, a program of the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation. 

When UCPath goes live this fall, students who are hired at 43.75 percent time or more for at least 3 months will be eligible to opt for a Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DepCare FSA).

If you’re not familiar with it, the DepCare FSA is used to pay for eligible caregiving expenses for your children up to age 13 or an eligible adult dependent. You set aside money for your DepCare FSA from your paycheck on a pre-tex basis and use those funds to pay for eligible DepCare expenses. Here are some details on how the plan works.

Educators from Osaka University and the University of California, Davis are proud to announce the launch of a new biotechnology research and training program between Japan and the United States. The approximately $23,000 in initial support comes from Kirin Holdings Company, an international food, beverage and pharmaceutical wellness brand.

Laura Young, business systems analyst for Graduate Studies at the University of California, Davis, has been named as the recipient of the 2019 Citation of Excellence for Innovation. Young was nominated by UC Davis graduate program coordinators for the leadership she demonstrated during the roll-out of Slate, the campus' new graduate admissions and internal fellowship application system.

Laspau (Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities) is an organization affiliated with Harvard University.  Laspau connects individuals and institutions with global education opportunities through admissions testing, scholarship management, university development, and alliance building. For over a decade, Laspau has helped hundreds of universities identify ideal candidates, innovate teaching methods and improve their effectiveness. 

UC Davis Graduate Studies presented special honors and awards to graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty in a ceremony Wednesday, May 23, on the Davis campus. At the event, Vice Provost and Dean Jean-Pierre Delplanque recognized some of the most exemplary teaching, research and mentoring that took place within the UC Davis graduate education community over the past year.

14 graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from the University of California, Davis, have been named the 2019-2020 fellows in the Professors for the Future (PFTF) program.

Established in 1992, Professors for the Future is a year-long competitive fellowship program designed to develop the leadership skills of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who have demonstrated their commitment to professionalism, integrity, and academic service.

Bennet Omalu, clinical professor and associate physician of pathology and laboratory medicine at UC Davis Health as well as the president and medical director of Bennet Omalu Pathology, will be the the keynote speaker for the 2019 Graduate Studies Commencement at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 13, 2019 at the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) Pavilion.

“Volunteer with the people you love and engage in the activities you are passionate about to bring more joy into this world,” says the personal website of Paul Terry. And the digital marketing and communications specialist for Graduate Studies is doing just that.

Plant Biology graduate student Katie Murphy has been named the UC 2019 Grad Slam champion. 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.