UC Davis Professors Valeria La Saponara, Isaya Kisekka, Eliska Rejmankova, Zhaodan Kong, Sanjai Parikh, Yufang Jin and UC Merced Professor Erin Hestir, along with international collaborators, received a 2024-25 Seed Grant.
Join us to honor the impact of globally focused research at UC Davis and engage in dialogue about it’s future. While much of this work has been halted with the closure of USAID, the importance of the work and the influence it has had around the world remains unchanged. Researchers will
This year’s 13 Seed Grants for International Activities projects bring together more than 34 researchers across UC Davis and partner institutions worldwide, fostering collaborations to advance groundbreaking discovery.
This year’s six selected Grants for Advancing Sustainable Development Goals projects contribute to 13 of the 17 SDGs—locally and globally—bringing together more than 18 faculty, researchers and artists from across UC Davis and collaborating communities, government organizations and academic institutions worldwide.
Seven faculty and staff members from UC Davis are being recognized for their outstanding global engagement work with two key awards: the Chancellor’s Award for International Engagement and the Excellence in Teaching for Global Learning Award. These awards recognize the outstanding work of UC Davis faculty and staff in international education, research and service.
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.
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.
In 2022, Carson Jeffres (UC Davis) with Dislene Torrente-Vilara (Universidade Federal de São Paulo) were selected for a UC Davis Global Affairs Seed Grant for International Activities to conduct a collaborative project with the Universidade Federal de São Paulo Instituto do Mar.
It was a single note that reached Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza after her son Arquímedes was taken from her home by soldiers in Peru’s military. In faint cursive on a scrap of deeply creased brown paper, he wrote that he was being held at an army barracks and asked her to find a lawyer and money and any way possible to get him to a trial.
