The Department of Asian American Studies was approved for a $750,000 grant for a proposed interdisciplinary program and designated emphasis focused on critical empire and militarism studies. The Department of Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies was approved for a $500,000 grant to fund a three-year working group focused on building the field of trans studies.

Junko Ito, continuing lecturer of Japanese, has named the 2024 California Japanese Language Teacher of the Year by the California Association of Japanese Language Teachers. Ito has taught in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in L&S since 2010.

The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) has recently funded two projects led by faculty in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science that document the lives of marginalized people, both in the past and present.

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.