The College of Letters and Science ended the Expect Greater: From UC Davis, for the World campaign with over $142 million raised, including the college’s largest gift ever.

The Department of Asian American Studies, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, and Department of African and African American Studies each will receive $100,000 in funding as part of a new set of grants from the Mellon Foundation. The grants recognize the importance of studying race, ethnic, gender and sexuality.

Professor Emerita Halifu Osumare returns to campus this month to read from and celebrate her new memoir, Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop and the Dunham Legacy, with the Department of African American and African Studies.

A team of UC Davis Humanities scholars planning a 2024-2025 seminar, Thinking Food @ the Intersections, was recently awarded $225,000 for the project. The seminar will have dual goals of understanding the complexities of food justice through a humanities framework as well as finding new potential solutions.