The Global Ambassador Mentorship Program (GAMP) is one of many working to promote inclusivity and security for international students at UC Davis. Third-year students Tina Zhang and Suzuran Schnyder sat down to share their co-coordinator experiences and provide further insight into the program’s impact and mission.
International graduate students created a disproportionate number of new business startups in the United States in the past decade. They also increased entrepreneurialism among their U.S.-born peers, according to new research from the University of California, Davis.
UC Davis MBA student Myrna Robles Couch and Allison Judy participated in a week-long MBA International Study Trip (IST) to Santiago, Chile, including a visit to UC Davis Chile.
Mary Alurwar is a UC Davis Global Affairs’ international scholar advisor within Services for International Students and Scholars. She serves as the J-1 lead advisor and backup for H1-Bs. In October, Alurwar traveled to Germany to learn the latest trends in Germany’s higher education system. She received a 2024 Fulbright International Education Administrator (IEA) Award, which awarded her a 2-week program, travel, and accommodation grant.
An engaging exhibition, which brings together visual journals belonging to students who participated in the UC Davis design study-abroad program, opens on Jan. 21 at the UC Davis Design Museum.
“Visual Journals: 2010-2024” is a partnership between the UC Davis departments of design and global affairs. The installation runs through April 25.
UC Davis and the City of Sacramento have released the first-ever Voluntary Local Review for Sacramento. The Sacramento VLR is a first step in explicitly connecting the priorities for the City of Sacramento to the shared global goals in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This is anticipated to provide a baseline for future collaborative work between the City of Sacramento and UC Davis to advance the SDGs in Sacramento and to inspire, inform and support other cities and universities to engage in similar joint efforts.
The UC Davis Global Learning Hub (GLH), part of Global Affairs, is excited to welcome Alfred (“Fred”) Boll as its new executive director. Boll joined the Hub's experienced and committed professional team on December 30, 2024.
We are deeply saddened to share the loss of Daniel Padron, a scholar intake advisor with Global Affairs’ Services for International Students and Scholars, who passed away unexpectedly on December 5, 2024, after 20 years of service at UC Davis.
Jessica Romick, a fourth-year design major with a focus in graphic design, has been creative throughout her whole life. From painting to embroidery, Jessica has not only developed a love for the arts but also extensive skills in her field. Jessica transferred to UC Davis with an associate's degree in graphic design, hoping to expand her horizons in professional creative fields.
Season’s Greetings from all of us at UC Davis Global Affairs! We hope you enjoy reading our 2023-24 Annual Report which shares how dedicated UC Davis staff, faculty and students in collaboration with our UC Davis campus and global partners, made important strides to advance our mission.
Becoming a 2024-25 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow is already reshaping and expanding my professional perspectives. I was selected as a speaker for the “Humphreys Perspectives Panel: Ensuring Sustainable Environments,” for which I decided to speak about the role that groundwater plays in our global freshwater sources.
