The Institute of International Education today (Feb. 19) awarded a Centennial Medal to Keith David Watenpaugh, professor of religious studies and director of Human Rights Studies at UC Davis. The presentation took place at the institute’s Centennial Summit in New York City.

I’m excited to report we just marked the mid-point of our inaugural Curriculum Enhancement Through Global Learning program with an interactive workshop on collaborative online international learning (COIL). Sixteen faculty members from ten UC Davis schools, colleges and units are participating in this curriculum enhancement opportunity, which supports our Global Education for All initiative.

On behalf of Global Affairs, I would like to congratulate our esteemed colleague Ermias Kebreab, who has been named the Associate Dean of Global Engagement and Director of the World Food Center in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, starting January 15, 2019.

Carrie Waterman, a University of California, Davis, natural products chemist (and one of the most recent Global Affairs Seed Grant Recipients) is expanding the reach of the world's next superfood.

Carrie Waterman, a University of California, Davis, natural products chemist (and one of the most recent Global Affairs Seed Grant Recipients) is expanding the reach of the world's next superfood.

Lovell "Tu" Jarvis, director of the Blum Center of Developing Economies at the University of California, Davis, speaks to Vox about how big cotton distorts international markets.

Even after being severely damaged by blast fishing and coral mining, coral reefs can be rehabilitated over large scales using a relatively inexpensive technique, according to a study led by the University of California, Davis, in partnership with Mars Symbioscience. This article features former Global Affairs Seed Grant Recipient and Distinguished Professor Susan Williams.

UC Davis School of Education Dean Lauren Lindstrom will serve as a Fulbright Specialist in the area of education for a three-year appointment and will utilize her diverse and award-winning research area expertise.

Vietnam has one of the fastest growing aging populations in the world, with the number of individuals aged 60 and older expected to triple by 2050. And with age, very often, comes dementia, a condition that will effect as many as 2.4 million Vietnamese by mid-century.

Pedro Luis Borges Chaffe, an associate professor of hydrology from Brazil, reflects upon his Fulbright Scholar experience working with UC Davis Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Geoffrey Schladow on the changing hydrology of streams in the Lake Tahoe basin.