Ever wonder how accurate romantic comedies are or where that comfort food you love so much originated from? Or maybe you want to know what UC Davis students and professors are reading and watching? These are just some of the topics covered in podcasts from faculty, staff and students in the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis.
Welcome to Books of the Month, a book club curated monthly with works from authors within the College of Letters & Science at UC Davis. This April, we honor Arab American Heritage Month with selections highlighting activist history within Arab American communities and abroad, as well as multiple cultural histories.
Ahead of the 2025 Templeton Colloquium in Art History at UC Davis, "Cultural Heritage at Stake: Between Conservation and Criminality," Professor of Art History Heghnar Watenpaugh has been speaking about the topic across California. Her latest lecture is available for streaming.
Torkwase Dyson, the winter quarter spotlight artist in The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies, is scheduled to speak on campus on Feb. 27. Dyson is a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure and architecture.
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.
The 2025 Templeton Colloquium in Art History at UC Davis — Cultural Heritage at Stake: Between Conservation and Criminality — debates cultural heritage today and explores the stakes for the protection of culture around the globe.
UC Davis Professor of Art Robin Hill was recently awarded the “Anonymous Was a Woman” Award – a $50,000 unrestricted grant awarded each year to 15 women artists over the age of 40 who are at a critical junction in their career.
Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, professor of art history at UC Davis, will be discussing "Survivor Objects and Captive Sites: Art and Cultural Heritage in Genocide" at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles on Dec. 15.
The imaginative life of 15th century artist, inventor, scientist and engineer Leonardo da Vinci takes center stage in Ken Burns' latest documentary. The two-part documentary titled Leonardo da Vinci premiered Nov. 18 and 19 on PBS stations. UC Davis Associate Professor of Design James Housefield and art studio alumna Julia Couzens (M.F.A. ‘90) led a discussion on da Vinci at an advanced partial-screening of the documentary at PBS KVIE in Sacramento on Nov. 14.
Engineering researchers at the University of California, Davis, have developed a novel method enabling high-resolution optical patterning of semiconducting polymers. Using existing photolithography technology, the technique paves the way for new applications in flexible electronics without requiring expensive new infrastructure.
