Faculty & Scholar News

Congratulations to Archana Venkatesan, associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature, for being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship along with three colleagues in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science, who are among 173 fellows chosen for the 2018 awards from the 3,000 who applied.

Keith Davis Watenpaugh, Professor and Director of UC Davis Human Rights Studies and Director of Article 26 Backpack™, pens IIE (Institute of International Education) Networker article with Article 26 Backpack™ colleagues.

Plant Sciences distinguished professor Paul Gepts was one of three recipients of the 2018 Chancellor’s Award for International Engagement at UC Davis. At a reception on March 2, Gepts received the award from UC Davis Chancellor Gary May.

On behalf Global Affairs at the University of California, Davis, I offer my condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Professor Shu Geng for their great loss.

Louise Ferguson received the 2017 Outstanding Extension Educator Award from the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS).

Global Affairs Director Karen Beardsley is featured as a "GIS Hero" by ArcNews for her GIS, Peace Corps, Fulbright, and international work.

By Keith David Watenpaugh, UC Davis

"Dear Colleagues:

I am back in Thessaloniki after a day at the unplanned refugee camp at Idomeni, Greece. The camp hugs the concertina wire fence that had been hastily assembled when Macedonia, just on the other side, and like much of the rest of Europe, decided to close its borders to waves of refugees from the war in Syria and those fleeing violence and oppression in Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq.