The Peter and Marion London Global Learning Expansion Grant Program provides funding for faculty to develop or enhance global components in their courses, thus enriching the academic experience and equipping students with essential global competencies.
Aliki Dragona’s work reaches students and faculty across UC Davis, from the Writing Center to study abroad in Greece to Teaching for Global Learning. Her approach to global learning is rooted in connection, curiosity and helping students see the world through broader context.
In his newly released documentary film, Umbria Jazz Feast, UC Davis Professor of Music, Pierpaolo Polzonetti, investigates the perceptions and identities of jazz as it intersects with the cuisine, art, and culture of locals and visitors in Perugia, a medieval town in central Italy. A musicologist specializing in music and food, Polzonetti focused on how the festival enabled a synesthetic experience; that is, one in which different senses are simultaneously engaged.
California and Africa have set the blueprint for a new model of international climate cooperation—a unique climate and economic partnership with Kenya and Nigeria delivering policy certainty, affordable technology and unlocking catalytic capital.
UC Davis Professor Pam Ronald has received the Universitas 21 Award – Climate Action, honoring her work helping address one of the defining challenges of our time: food security in the face of climate change.