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