American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland will headline a public symposium on women, philanthropy and mentorship on Nov. 5 at 1 p.m. at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, University of California, Davis. The event will also feature a panel discussion with notable UC Davis alumnae.
Christina Harvey, a University of California, Davis, researcher studying how bird flight can be used to improve aircraft design, has been awarded a 2023 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Harvey, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is among 20 innovative early-career scientists and engineers who will each receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research.
Women’s Basketball forward Lena Svanholm ’21, M.S. ’23, Ph.D. ’26 came to the U.S. from her home country Denmark to start her college basketball career at 18 years old. This year, not only is she excelling in her final season, she has also begun a Ph.D. in chemistry and chemical biology.
725 donors contributed a total of $360,207 during Champions Achieve, the UC Davis intercollegiate athletics department's fourth-annual fall fundraising campaign.
Many students who embark on research projects during the academic year face a roadblock during summer break when they leave campus to seek employment and have to shelve their scientific pursuits. To bridge this gap, the CBS Dean's Circle Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) offers an invaluable opportunity.
The program provides undergraduates with mentorship, financial support and enables them to extend their research through a 10-week summer quarter. Generous contributions to the CBS Dean's Circle Fund make this annual initiative possible.
When the late Judith Simpson Schreider ’76 started giving informal advice to students interested in the health professions, she couldn’t have imagined that nearly 50 years later her generous spirit would live on, serving thousands of UC Davis students annually. Yet it does, in the form of the College of Biological Sciences’ distinctive, holistically supportive Health Professions Advising (HPA) office.
Donors to the University of California, Davis, gave robust support to the university last year, exceeding its annual fundraising goal by more than $27 million. Data announced today (Aug. 8) show the university raised $253 million in FY22-23 in 56,071 gifts and pledges from 31,078 donors.
For Brian Horsfield, recognition was never a factor when he and his wife, Louanne, created the Once an Aggie Engineer, Always an Aggie Engineer Alumni Engagement Fund at UC Davis. Sitting in downtown Davis in April, Brian says it’s about showing what’s possible when someone makes the decision to give back.
Chancellor Gary S. May presented the 2023 UC Davis Medal, the university’s highest honor, to international arts patron and philanthropist Maria Manetti Shrem at a UC Davis commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 18.
