ARTS & HUMANITIES

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EXHIBITIONS

Free Indoor Art Exhibits and Museums to Visit at UC Davis this Summer
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HONORS

Beatriz Cortez Named Joan Mitchell Fellow
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UC Davis Chorus Makes History with Carnegie Hall Debut

by Maria Sestito

From Broadway shows to impromptu subway rides, singers from across the UC Davis campus and community set out on New York City this summer to make their Carnegie Hall debut with Director of Choirs  Nicolás Dosman at the helm. American composer Rosephanye Powell accompanied the performance of 'The Cry of Jeremiah.'

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RESEARCH

BioInnovation Lab Connects Students to Real-World Research

A maker space for undergraduate research, the BioInnovation Lab allows students to learn basic lab skills, experiment, innovate and contribute to research.
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ART HISTORY

Heghnar Watenpaugh on Preserving Cultural Heritage Worldwide

Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh discusses her experience teaching in Paris amidst controversy over museum staffing, security, ownership and restitution in France and the larger museum community. She will continue her own research at the Getty Museum in fall.
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CINEMA

Inside the Minds of Three Student Filmmakers

A short film about a serial bike thief slinking around the streets of Davis doesn’t seamlessly transition into meditations on how technology may hinder modern life, but no two films at the 2026 Film Festival at UC Davis could be thought of as alike.
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LITERATURE

To Be or Not to Be ... In Virtual Reality

William Shakespeare wrote, “All the world’s a stage.” But what would the late-16th-century playwright’s work look like in the virtual world? A collaboration at UC Davis is giving students the chance to find out.

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Imagining America National Gathering Seeks Proposals

  • by College of Letters and Science
The Imagining America (IA) consortium brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists and organizers to imagine, study and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. It is currently open to participation proposals for its 2026 IA National Gathering in October, the last to be held in Davis before the consortium moves to a new host campus next year.
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Graduate Exhibition Showcases Intersection of Health, Technology, Art, Design

  • by College of Letters and Science
From digital data and technology to the environment, healthcare and the body, graduate students from across the College of Letters and Science at University of California, Davis, are pushing boundaries with their experimental research and creative expression. The results, varied in medium and discipline, will be on display at the Arts & Humanities 2026 Graduate Exhibition.

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