March 2022 Global Engagement Insider
Global Engagement Insider Newsletter - March 2022
Funding, opportunities, announcements, and resources for UC Davis globally engaged faculty and staff
Global Funding and Engagement
Global Affairs Opportunities
Spotlight on Mexico
UC Davis Global Centers, Latin America and the Caribbean supports academic mobility and research opportunities between UC Davis and the region. During the 2021-22 academic year, we have been spotlighting Mexico in public events, student programming, and other initiatives. If you are a member of the UC Davis community and involved in a project or event in the region or with a partner institution from the region, please email Faculty Director Chuck Walker cfwalker@ucdavis.edu, so we can include your activity in our outreach to campus and external partners.
UC Davis and University of California Opportunities
Latin America and Caribbean Summer Field Research Awards
Summer travel grants are available for UC Davis graduate students to do pre-dissertation field research from the Hemispheric Institute of the Americas. Travel must be completed by September 30, 2022. Deadline: March 19
Planetary Health Summer Work Experience Program Seeks Hosts
The Summer Work Experience program connects talented UC students with interested faculty hosts for a collaborative summer experience. Funding is not a prerequisite to host (as some scholarships/stipends are available). You may request an undergraduate and/or a graduate student and students are often available to work June 2022 - August 2022. The matching of students to hosts will occur from mid-February to mid-March 2022. If you are interested in hosting a student for summer 2022, please submit a Host Application request and/or any questions to planetaryhealth@ucdavis.edu. Deadline: March 31
External Opportunities
UTFORSK Funding for Partnerships with Norway
Funding is available for joint bilateral or multilateral projects between higher education institutions in Norway, the United States, and eight other prioritized countries. Projects to be funded include joint educational activities, increased student mobility, including internships, integration of higher education and research and strengthening non-academic partners' involvement. Deadline: April 20
2023-24 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Competition Now Open
The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers awards for U.S. citizens to teach, research and conduct professional projects in more than 130 countries. The Fulbright website offers program details, application guidance and other resources. Deadline: September 15
Global Events and Programs
Global Affairs Events
Campus Global Theme: Transformative Energies: Repowering and Empowering the Planet
The Campus Global Theme calendar is live! The Campus Global Theme program identifies a topic linked to one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and engages the UC Davis community in related discussion, learning, discovery, and action. The current theme, Transformative Energies: Repowering and Empowering the Planet, dares to imagine repowering and empowering the planet as being two sides of the same coin, bringing together the UC Davis community in this exploration of the humanistic, social, and scientific dimensions. If you have an event that fits the theme and would like to be included on the calendar, please email Elizabeth Langridge-Noti, elangridge@ucdavis.edu. Mini-grants are available for events on a rolling basis.
3rd Annual Global Learning Conference
April 2 Undergraduate students of all backgrounds are encouraged to join the Global Learning Conference! This in-person event is a great opportunity for students to connect with professionals in many fields, learn how to tell their personal story and incorporate it effectively into their job search. Exhibitors, networking, professional headshots, lunch, snacks, raffle and more, for $15! Check out the full schedule and register—space is limited!
Achieving Sustainable and Inclusive Development: Emerging Issues in Research and Policy
April 11 Join Global Affairs for an in-person symposium to explore current challenges and approaches to achieving sustainable and inclusive development. The event will feature UC Davis faculty experts, and a keynote address by Dr. Mari Elka Pangestu, Ph.D. ’86, World Bank managing director of development policy and partnerships. Reception to follow. Register to attend.
Campus Global Events
Border Thinking: The Cultural Knowledge of Transnational Youth
April 6 Motivated by her own experience as a transnational Costa Rican-American, Andrea Dyrness, Associate Professor, Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice, University of Colorado-Boulder, will share her research. It investigates how young people growing up in transnational communities, particularly in Latin American and Caribbean diasporas, learn to belong, participate and work for change in multiple national communities, and the spaces and practices that support their critical citizenship formation.
Global Health Day
May 7 A system-wide conference on global health that showcases the outstanding research, training and outreach across the University of California. The conference is in-person at UC Santa Cruz with a free virtual option.
UC Davis Mondavi Center Announced 2021-22 Season, Including Several Global Works
UC Davis Global Affairs is a proud sponsor of the Mondavi Center’s 2021-22 season of performances running through May 2022. Among several global works are Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández (March 18), and Las Cafeteras (April 28). Ticket discounts are available for current and retired UC Davis faculty and staff.
Announcements
COVID-19 Travel Advisory
The CDC announced that as of December 6, 2021, all air passengers two years or older with a flight departing to the U.S. from a foreign country are required to show a negative COVID-19 viral test result taken no more than one day before travel or documentation of having recovered from COVID-19 in the past 90 days, before they board their flight.
Travel Advisory: Ukraine and Russia
The U.S. State Department has issued a Level 4 — Do Not Travel Warning for Ukraine and Russia due to conflict. As a result, and out of concern for the well-being and safety of the UC community, the University of California Office of the President is directing all members of the UC community to avoid all travel to Ukraine and Russia at this time. Additionally, travel to neighboring countries should be carefully evaluated.
Global Affairs Q&A Related to COVID-19
Questions and answers are available related to travel, services for international students and scholars, study abroad and other global learning programs, and more.
Visiting Academic Collaborators Policy
A new policy for domestic and international Visiting Academic Collaborators is now in place for those visiting the campus to participate in or observe teaching, research, or public service activities for more than ten consecutive working days in collaboration with a member of the UC Davis community.
Global Spotlights
Recipients Honored with 2022 Chancellor’s Awards for International Engagement
Congratulations to the 2022 recipients of the UC Davis Chancellor’s Awards for International Engagement for their exceptional dedication to global engagement! Chancellor Gary S. May honored Samuel Sandoval Solís, associate professor in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Nancy J. Allen, grant writer and executive director of Global Fellowships in Agricultural Development in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, at the seventh annual UC Davis International Connections Reception.
2022 Seed Grants for International Activities Support Innovative Research and Engagement Projects
Congratulations to the 2022 recipients of Seed Grants for International Activities! These grants are offered in partnership with UC Davis colleges and schools, the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Office of Research to faculty taking on innovative research and engagement projects around the world. This year’s eight projects bring together more than 25 researchers across UC Davis and collaborating institutions worldwide, fostering collaborations and groundbreaking discovery. Projects include modeling, managing and preventing a number of different diseases and illnesses, training for expressive language sampling for neurodevelopmental conditions, examining the interplay of democracy and populism, and more.
Diverse Group of 2022 Grant Recipients Advance United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Congratulations to the 2022 recipients of Grants for Advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)! These grants, support the 17 SDGs through faculty outreach, university research and international collaboration, facilitating work on complex and interlinked economic, social and environmental issues. The SDGs aim to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They reflect a universal commitment to address critical issues at the local, regional, national and international levels. The three teams to receive these grants are well on their way to realizing that vision.
A Message About the Conflict in Ukraine
We continue to closely follow reports of the recent invasion in Ukraine and are thinking of our students, scholars, faculty, staff, partners and all those affected by these events in the region and around the world. We will always hope and wish for peace to prevail.
APRU, UC Davis and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Launch Second Cohort of Asia-Pacific Women in Leadership (APWiL)
UC Davis and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) launched the second cohort of the APWiL Mentoring Program, kicking off with 87 participants, nearly three times the number during its pilot year. The program is focused on providing mentoring to aspiring leaders from 25 institutions in the APRU network.
Pam Ronald Wins Wolf Prize in Agriculture
UC Davis plant geneticist Pam Ronald is the recipient of the 2022 International Wolf Prize in Agriculture, given by the Jerusalem-based Wolf Foundation in recognition of her “pioneering work on disease resistance and environmental stress tolerance in rice.”
International Visitors and Agreements
Recent International Delegation Meetings (Virtual)(February 1-28, 2022)
- Universitas Indonesia | Indonesia
- University College Dublin | Ireland
- Osaka University | Japan
Recent International Agreements Signed (February 1-28, 2022)
- Universidade Federal de Uberlandia | Brazil
- Complutense University of Madrid | Spain
Learn more about hosting visitors from around the world, or the international agreement process on the Global Affairs website.