Rising third-year UC Davis student Maddison Cunningham recently received The Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service, known as The Voyager Scholarship. Cunningham is the first UC Davis student to earn The Voyager Scholarship since its inception in 2022.
In her course “America Decides,” Amber Boydstun, a professor of political science, is taking a different approach to teaching electoral politics that helps students to unpack the emotions bound up with their own or each other’s politics.
The UC Davis College of Letters and Science has awarded a major interdisciplinary research grant to a team studying how U.S. private companies and industry organizations affect global public health policy.
Thirteen faculty members from the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis were recently awarded Revitalization Research Program Grants. Intended to support faculty whose research programs have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the college-funded grants support the continuation or completion of stalled, high-priority projects. The selected faculty members represent the breadth of research conducted at the College of Letters and Science.
Students from across the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis shared their research on some of California’s most pressing policy issues in a fast-paced poster session during this summer’s UC Center Sacramento Undergraduate Research Showcase.
Four faculty members have received the 2023 College of Letters and Science Teaching Awards. The awards recognize outstanding teaching on the undergraduate and graduate levels, both inside and outside the classroom.
