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.
For the second consecutive year, a record high number of students have applied to the University of California, Davis, for undergraduate studies in fall 2025. The 120,131 applications represented a 4.1% increase over the previous record of 115,349 last year.
Our planet’s history is one of extreme climate cycles that repeat across time, with insights into the Earth’s previous responses still accessible today. This is part of what Isabel Montañez is working to understand — what these moments might teach us about our changing climate and future climate conditions.
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.
Traci Parker, an associate professor of history, is working to fill out what we know about the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the U.S., and in the process is building deeper connections to the past.
When Bayleigh Baldwin, a linguistics major and Letters and Science student ambassador, first arrived at UC Davis, she didn’t really know what it meant to be at a research university. Now a senior, she is interviewing with graduate programs across the country where she might launch her research career.
Several faculty at the University of California, Davis, are among the recipients of presidential awards for excellence in STEM mentoring and research announced by the White House Jan. 13 and 14.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony held on January 26, 2025 marked the culmination of a vision made possible by philanthropist Maria Manetti Shrem through her transformative gift of over $20 million to the arts at UC Davis.
