Alum Harry Shontz (LS '12), who majored in history and psychology at UC Davis, received a 2025-26 Milken Educator Award. The award, one of the most highly regarded honors for K-12 teachers, recognizes overall excellence.
Kathleen DuVal, history Ph.D. alum and 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner, returned to UC Davis to give a talk to a packed audience at the Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center on February 25 to share her research on Tecumseh, a 19th century Native American leader.
Geology provides a language for understanding the Earth. Stories from the planet’s past are locked in the rocks and landscape. But others are hard to reveal, hidden in troves of data. Alums Barbara Wotham and Chad Trexler launched a Geology Coding Bootcamp program to help students uncover those stories.
Eugene Lunn served as a professor of history at UC Davis for two decades before his untimely passing in 1990, but his work as a scholar and his deep commitment to his students left a powerful impression that continues to resonate today.
If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve been bit by a mosquito. But what do you know about these creatures beyond them being perceived pesky annoyances? At the January Davis Science Cafe, neurobiologist Lisa Baik explained what can lead to mosquito bites and various ways to deter these pesky bites.
Sandra Riddell Shannonhouse — an artist and University of California, Davis, alum whose generous contributions and advocacy for public art and historic preservation helped shape vibrant art communities — has died. Known as Sandy to friends and family, she was instrumental in sustaining the legacy of her late husband, the artist and professor Robert Arneson.
Teddye Buchanan '24, a design Alum was recently drafted to the Baltimore Ravens team in April. Buchanan is the first Aggie to be drafted to the National Football League since 2002. Here are five things to know about Buchanan.
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.
After graduating from UC Davis with a degree in Communication, Joe Sasto spent years working in some of the best restaurants in the country. He competed on the 15th season of Top Chef and on an all-star season two years later. Now, his passion for food has led to the upcoming debut of his first cookbook on Oct. 21: "Breaking the Rules: A Fresh Take on Italian Classics".
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.
