Psychology Ph.D. student Zachary Oakland, a military veteran, is development a new understanding of social anxiety. What drives him, he said, is a need to understand post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a debilitating condition that many veterans bring home.
Three College of Letters and Science faculty have been recognized for their teaching by the UC Davis University Honors Program. This initiative spotlights faculty who students recognized as having a positive impact on their classroom experience.
As an assistant diving and boating safety officer for UC Davis based at Bodega Marine Laboratory, Abbey Dias works with UC Davis researchers to coordinate and provide guidance for critical fieldwork that’s helping us understand the health of our oceans and waterways, and in turn, our global climate.
In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, Paddy on the Binge will play a concert featuring traditional Irish tunes Saturday, March 15 at Central Park in Davis. Cloud scientist and musician Emma Ware discusses how science and music play roles in her life.
Brett Snyder, a professor and chair of the MFA program in design at UC Davis, is both a teacher and an active practitioner whose work helps to reimagine spaces people know intimately while also collaboratively discovering what’s possible.
Adele Zhang, the manager and curator of the Jo Ann C. Stabb Design Collection, recently shipped 134 of the collection's objects to London, where they will be exhibited for the first time internationally. To make it happen, Zhang worked with partners across UC Davis and launched a successful crowdfunding campaign.
The 25th R. Bryan Miller Symposium kicked off March 6 at the UC Davis Conference Center and ran through March 7. To commemorate the 25th anniversary, some members from the Department of Chemistry and Miller's family recently shared their thoughts on the symposium, retracing its founding and the legacy of its namesake.
College of Letters and Science graduate students Mikhaila Redovian and Kirsten Schuhmacher were recently announced recipients of the 2025 UC Davis Library Graduate Student Prize. The Ph.D. candidates in the Department of English, used library resources to help research, curate and design "Worlds Encompassed: Premodern Making and Mingling."
With the launch of the College of Engineering's AI Center in Engineering in the College of Letters and Sciences' Center for Artificial Intelligence and Experimental Futures, the University of California, Davis, is leading the way in foundational AI research as well as translational applications and AI education efforts. Organizations like the AI Student Collective, or AISC, allow students to make their own opportunities in the AI space.
Are you a poet? A writer? An essayist? If so, the College of Letters and Science’s Department of English is hosting seven writing contests open to UC Davis graduate and undergraduate students. Deadlines are in April.
