John Pascoe, executive associate dean emeritus of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, led the school's efforts to acquire more artists works, especially those depicting animals. Now, a nearly 7-foot steel sculpture of a horse by renowned sculptor Deborah Butterfield, coincidentally named "John," stands on a platform at the school’s Multi-Purpose Teaching Building in a large bay window looking toward the school’s William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.
The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies will bring Sacramento-based fiber artist Josh Faught and Los Angeles based curator Anne Ellegood to give free, public talks on campus at UC Davis in October.
The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis has announced two new, timely exhibits opening along with the museum on Aug. 7. “OJO” and Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice will be on display until Dec. 1.
Welcome to Books of the Month, where once a month, L&S staff select works from our Bookshelf of authors within the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis. This month, we are celebrating art and art history spanning centuries from ancient and medieval times around the world through to modern-day California.
Before joining the Department of English at UC Davis last fall, Cindy Juyoung Ok was already making waves with her newly published poetry collection, "Ward Toward." She spoke with L&S Magazine to discuss the experimental work and her decision to leave teaching to pursue her writing.
Associate Professor Bettina Ng’weno, Department of African American and African Studies, has been honored with this year's Distinguished Graduate and Postdoctoral Mentorship Award from UC Davis Graduate Studies and the Graduate Council. This award shines a light on the power of mentorship in shaping the academic and professional journeys of UC Davis graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.
UC Davis alum Fawzi Haimor (B.A. in music ’05, M.A. in music ’07) has been named the fourth music director of the Marin Symphony Orchestra. Haimor joins the orchestra after a number of years guest conducting around the world.
The American Dream as both idea and ideal, for all its complications, has had an undeniably powerful role in shaping values and aspirations in the U.S. and far beyond its borders. We spoke with faculty and students in the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis who represent a wealth of knowledge and perspectives that help us think about American society’s past, present and continuing potential.
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Charlie Hankin spent years studying rap music and community in Brazil, Cuba and Haiti. That research culminated into the award-winning book, "Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas." He also became an unlikely collaborator with some local musicians he was working with.
Welcome to Books of the Month, where once a month, L&S staff select works from our Bookshelf of authors within the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis. We're hoping to read more fiction this summer, so our July selections include novels from faculty in the Department of English and Department of Chicana/o/x Studies as well as graduates of the M.F.A. in Creative Writing program.
