Winners of the 2021 Excellence in Postdoctoral Research Awards have been announced. Two of the three winners are international scholars. This article originally appeared on the UC Davis Graduate Studies website. Graduate Studies is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Excellence in Postdoctoral Research Awards: Dr. Essam Abdelfattah, Dr. Fabio Anzà, and Dr. Michelle Cohn. This year’s recipients of the award were honored at the 6th Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium on March 30, 2021. 

Get to know more of our global UC Davis campus community through the Meet a UC Davis International Scholar series, profiling some of the best and brightest from around the globe who work, research, and teach at UC Davis.

Name:  
Alex Zanella Zaccaron

Title and department:
Research assistant at the Department of Plant Pathology

Home, city/region, and country:
Maracaju, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Get to know more of our global UC Davis campus community through the Meet a UC Davis International Scholar series, profiling some of the best and brightest from around the globe who work, research, and teach at UC Davis.

Name:  
Yan Yun

Title and department:
Postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Home city/region and country:
Datong, China

Jennifer Aten, a human resources analyst in the Department of Neurology was among the faculty and staff who received Chancellor's Awards for International Engagement at the International Connections Reception hosted by Global Affairs on March 7.

UC Davis' 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow Dr. Joannishka K. Dsani writes about her experience interning with the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association.

GRID has partnered with UC Davis Humphrey Fellows once again this year. Fellows joined GRID at their CA Adaptation Forum; Clean Technology tour and even participated in a install in Lincoln, CA. GRID Alternatives spoke with Marlon and Gadri about their experiences with solar and GRID and how this experience will help them in the future.

Pedro Luis Borges Chaffe, an associate professor of hydrology from Brazil, reflects upon his Fulbright Scholar experience working with UC Davis Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Geoffrey Schladow on the changing hydrology of streams in the Lake Tahoe basin.

UC Davis Global Affairs is hosting an international conference, Sept. 17-18, “Innovation Within Changing Political and Research Environments,” the first such meeting of its kind on the West Coast.