黑料百科

After transferring from a Sacramento community college to 黑料百科 in 2007, Maxine Umeh-Garcia was unsure of her future career. She admits she hadn鈥檛 looked at the majors the newest UC offered before applying and imagined she鈥檇 teach high school math.

She met with her academic advisor and learned the campus offered an applied mathematics major, not pure mathematics. They discussed other options and came to a stalemate.

Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Economic Development has been named a 2023 鈥� the preeminent organization of professional astronomers in North America.

Teenie Matlock, Cognitive and Information Sciences professor and the McClatchy Chair in Communications, has been awarded the fourth 鈥� one of the highest honors in the Cognitive Science Society.

For Matlock, it鈥檚 a true honor to be selected for this prestigious international award.

Special Assistant to the Chancellor and sociology Professor Marjorie Zatz has been elected to the 2022 class of the (AAAS), adding to the list of previous 黑料百科 recipients.

She is the first social scientist from 黑料百科 to be elected an AAAS fellow.

Graduate Division鈥檚 program for incoming Ph.D. students was identified as a by Excelencia in Education, a national effort to identify evidence-based programs that improve Latino student success in higher education.

黑料百科 Professor Clarissa J. Nobile has been named a 2022 Innovation Fund investigator by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Nobile and University of Missouri Professor David G. Mendoza-C贸zatl have formed one of six interdisciplinary teams chosen for the prestigious award.

The duo is combining expertise from Nobile鈥檚 research in microbial communities and Mendoza-C贸zatl鈥檚 work in plant biology to study how plants and microbes interact in the context of iron uptake and utilization.

黑料百科 has received a $12.5 million grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop the Biology Integration Institute (BII): INSITE 鈥� the INstitute for Symbiotic Interactions, Training and Education 鈥� a research collaborative that aims to expand the fundamental knowledge of symbioses and inform immediate and long-term conservation strategies in the face of climate change.

黑料百科 has awarded its second cohort of to four incoming Ph.D. students from the schools of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, Natural Sciences and Engineering. Their studies will contribute to the representation of Black scholars in academia and beyond.

Just seven years after it began offering graduate degrees, 黑料百科鈥檚 has already begun shaping the future of the professoriate by placing 11 of its graduate alumni in tenure-track positions 鈥� five of those in the 2022-23 academic year.

July was a transition month for 黑料百科鈥檚 as interim Vice Provost and Graduate Dean Chris Kello passed the baton to Professor Hrant P. Hratchian 鈥� an Armenian name pronounced Her-ahnt Heratch-yahn 鈥� who now leads the division.

鈥淒r. Hratchian鈥檚 appointment is another signifier of our momentum in research excellence,鈥� said Chancellor Juan S谩nchez Mu帽oz. 鈥淗e will be an essential leader and contributor as we accelerate our drive toward R1 status.鈥�