Congratulations to our 2019-20 Seed Grant Recipients
Partnering with UC Davis colleges and schools, Global Affairs provides Seed Grants for International Activities to faculty taking on innovative research, service, and engagement projects around the world.
2019-20 Grant Recipients
Anujit Chakraborty
Social identity, Taste Bias and Under-Provisioning of Public Goods (India)
College of Letters and Science
David de la Peña
Sustainable development and stewardship: Connecting Land, Lake, and Community in North Patagonia and the Tahoe Basin (Latin America and the Caribbean)
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Mary Lou de Leon Siantz
Adolescent Mental and Reproductive Health and Migration in the Americas (Mexico)
Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing
Elisabeth Forrestel and Andrew Waterhouse
Development of an International Initiative for Advancing the Adaptive Capacity of Viticulture to Climate Change (France and Australia)
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Gozde Goncu-Berk
Smart Clothing and Textiles for Healthcare and Wellbeing: A Research and Learning Network (United Kingdom)
College of Letters and Science
Liza Grandia
Mapping Indigenous Resilience to Land Grabs in Guatemala (Guatemala)
College of Letters and Science
John Largier, Rick Grosberg, and Marissa Baskett
Oceans, Ecosystems, and People Along the West Coasts of the Americas (Latin America and the Caribbean)
College of Biological Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Beth Rose Middleton
Indigenous Caribbean (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)
College of Letters and Science
Richard Pereira and Xunde Li
Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance at a Global Scale: Whole Genome sequencing of ESBL-Producing E. Coli From Livestock in Four Continents (China, Netherlands, New Zealand)
School of Veterinary Medicine
Karen Shapiro, Jeroen Saeij, and Kathryn Conlon
Bridging International Expertise to Address Toxoplasma Transmission (Brazil)
School of Veterinary Medicine, and School of Medicine
Michael Siminovitch and Dario Cantu
Establishing A Roadmap For the “Center of Sustainable Tequila Production” at the Universidad Autonomade Guadalajara (Mexico)
College of Letters and Science, and College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan
Microbial Metabolite Mimics, Drug Discovery to Treat Cancer and Metabolic Disease (Taiwan)
School of Medicine