Learn, Earn in College Corps

UC Davis will lead a new consortium that will recruit and train about 1,000 students and match them with internships at community organizations. In addition to the paid internships, the #CaliforniansForAll College Corps will offer a two-credit experiential learning course, professional development support and financial literacy workshops.

Chef Yan Donates His Archive

Celebrity chef Martin Yan and his wife, Susan, both UC Davis graduates, have given nearly 3,000 cookbooks, Yan’s first wok and a collection of photos and other media to their alma mater. The collection will be digitized and will form the Chef Martin Yan Legacy Archive in the UC Davis Library Archives and Special Collections

What Is a ‘Resilient’ Forest?

Today’s forests have six or seven times more trees than a century ago, and a new study suggests lowering that density and eliminating tree competition are key to creating forests resilient to the multiple stressors of severe wildfire, drought, bark beetles and climate change. “Resilient forests respond to a range of stressors, not just one,” one study author says.

Our Fellow in Cape Verde

This month’s guest on Face to Face With Chancellor May is Claudia Duarte Silva Gomes, a medical doctor and director of a regional hospital in the African archipelago nation of Cape Verde. She spent six weeks learning virtually at UC Davis last summer as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, a program for young African leaders to learn leadership and public management skills.