Graduation Celebrations Will Still Include Personal Touches

When Ricky Walther’s veterinary medicine degree is conferred next week, his classmates will all get to see his Australian shepherds. Personalized profile photos are just one way the Class of 2020 will still be able to make graduation their own. They’ll also be able to print signs and will be encouraged to share posts on social media.

Students Share Impact of Scholarships on Their Lives

This week, the UC Davis Foundation’s “by philanthropy” initiative is showing the impact of donors through personal stories from students like Janaki Jahannath, who received a scholarship to study at the School of Law. “It showed me there were some shared values around my approach to justice,” she says of receiving her award.

Historian Andrés Reséndez Wins Carnegie Fellowship

The professor whose groundbreaking research revealed the breadth of Native American enslavement is the recipient of a 2020 Carnegie Fellowship to study the Magellan Exchange, the transfer of animals, plants and germs across the Pacific — certainly apropos to the time we are living in.

A Custodian’s Cut Comforts Patient at Medical Center

The latest in our series of Aggie Heroes is Rocky Mesa, a senior custodian at the UC Davis Medical Center who doesn’t want anyone to have to face hardship alone if it can be helped. So when he heard a patient fretting about shaving her head before a skin graft, he volunteered to lop off his locks.