As a member of the College of Letters and Science Dean’s Advisory Council, Kirk DeClark is part of a group of civic, business and education leaders drawn from the college’s alumni, donors, emeriti and friends. For DeClark, the role has given him an opportunity to help students and young alumni explore their intellectual curiosity and career prospects.
The Davis Humanities Institute (DHI) has awarded two faculty in the College of Letters and Science with Network Collaboration Fellowships that provide $5,000 in support for fellows or their collaborators to travel to connect on a shared project.
A bioarcheologist interested in the diets of people long past, UC Davis Ph.D. candidate Diana Malarchik, Department of Anthropology, analyzes the geochemical signatures of teeth to better understand major shifts in breastfeeding and maternal behavior in the past. Her research is highlighting inequities between individuals of high and low socioeconomic status.
New research from the University of California, Davis, has found that toddlers who tend to look more closely at and compare paired images during a memory task are more aware of the accuracy of their own memories a year later. This finding connects the earliest process of seeking information with the developing ability to judge the accuracy of memories.
For Ron Austin of Fairfield, California, this year's commencement will be a moment — and degree — more than 47 years in the making. The 66-year-old is proud he has finally completed the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts in political science.
University of California researchers, in collaboration with University of Michigan researchers, have developed a method to take carbon dioxide, an industrial waste product that pollutes the atmosphere, and turn it into something useful: precursors to make cement.
The multidisciplinary showcase is on view June 5–22 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art and features graduate students in art history, art studio, comparative literature, design, English, environmental science and policy, music and performance studies.
Lidia Wolday didn’t see herself as someone who could do research when she arrived at UC Davis. A first-generation student, she had just transferred from a community college. This year she graduates with new confidence from her experiences conducting and presenting her own academic research.
The UC Davis Humanities Institute has announced five new faculty research fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year. All five projects among faculty within the College of Letters and Science are centered around book projects, including one work of fiction.
For 2025, five of the nine total Lang Prize honors were awarded to students majoring in the College of Letters and Science for their research across the social sciences and humanities.
