Public Engagement Champion
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Associate Professor Natalia Deeb-Sossa, an activist scholar who investigates ways in which research can promote social change, became connected to the Knights Landing community after hosting a photography class for the children of migrant farm workers. Through that experience, the community of Knights Landing found an ally in Deeb-Sossa. Soon after, they asked for help with another pressing issue facing their children—access to education.
Read part one of their story.
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Phil Serna has served as Sacramento County’s First District Supervisor since 2010. During that time, he has championed efforts to address the root causes of shortened life expectancy for Sacramento County’s Black children, ensured healthcare access for undocumented workers, and spearheaded investment in the Fruitridge pocket area.
Join him for a discussion on the relationship between County services, local and regional policy initiatives, and residential quality of life.
Event: July 15, 2020 | 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
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Local historian William Burg presents the second in a series of talks
focusing on specific periods in Sacramento history when African American civil rights organizations worked collaboratively, with Black organizations, other communities of color, and white allies, to advocate for their rights and their community's economic and social well-being. Part 2 will focus on 1900 to the early 1920s, an era when Sacramento struggled to maintain its position among California cities, and also an era of ascendant racism and intolerance.
Event: July 16, 2020 | 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
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A conversation with leading voices about movement — as collective action for social change, as preclusion and possibility, as the flows of language within and across boundaries and borders, as energies coursing through the dense networks of everyday relation, as history and horizon.
Event: July 17, 2020 | 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Since the March Sketchcrawl in the Arboretum was cancelled, the monthly
Let's Draw Davis Sketchcrawl
kicks off on Saturday, July 18 in the UC Davis Arboretum.
Event: July 18, 2020 | 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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RIGGED: The Voter Suppression Playbook
is an award-winning documentary that exposes the nefarious tactics used to suppress the vote and serves to spark discussion on the actions needed to protect our democracy. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion on Democracy in the Time of COVID.
Event: July 21, 2020 | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
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Engage in learning and dialogue with your campus community while coming together, remotely, to watch this three-part documentary that questions the idea of race as innate biology. Yet race still matters. Just because race doesn’t exist in biology doesn’t mean it isn’t very real, helping shape life chances and opportunities.
Event: July 22, 2020 | 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
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Four grants are available for individual artists, arts and cultural nonprofits and creative businesses that have experienced financial hardship because of the crisis caused by the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Deadline: July 22, 2020
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Nominations are being accepted through Friday, July 24, 2020 for the 2021-2022 Campus Community Book Project, which will address the topic of social justice in practice. Nominations can be sent to
Sunny Dosanjh
in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—please include the name of the title, author, and your reason for nominating the book.
Deadline: July 24, 2020
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The First-Year Seminar program invites proposals for courses co-taught by (current and former) Mellon Scholars. This opportunity is open to current and former Mellon Public Scholars to propose a first-year seminar with their faculty mentor and community partner.
Deadline: July 24, 2020
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This project aims to nurture artists from a diverse range of backgrounds and uplift the work of artists, with a particular focus on underrepresented perspectives and voices. We welcome all visual artists working with a wide range of mediums. This residency is open to national applicants and will take place in Sacramento, California, for a period of three months.
Deadline: July 27, 2020
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Health is shaped by a complex web of social, economic, and environmental conditions and experiences that extend far beyond the reach of the medical care system. Studies conducted through the Systems for Action (S4A) program test innovative mechanisms for aligning delivery and financing systems for medical, social, and public health services, with a focus on the effects of these mechanisms on health and health equity.
Deadline: August 5, 2020
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This year, in place of an in-person Imagining America (IA) National Gathering, IA invites creative responses that offer opportunities for community reflection, healing, and the creation of spaces and places for a radical reimagining of the world in which we live. Participants are requested to document their creative response in a written, visual, or audio-visual format and share them with IA.
Deadline: August 28, 2020
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The fellowship offers an opportunity to reach people both within and outside an applicant’s field. Eligible applicants are early career scientists or early career practitioners from underrepresented populations pursuing work related to environmental public health, environmental justice, or ecosystem/climate health or justice. Relevant disciplines may include (but not limited to): environmental health, epidemiology, urban planning, earth sciences, or sociology.
Deadline: August 28, 2020
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Heat is one area where health, climate change and racism build on each other and intertwine in ways that cannot be separated.
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Caltrans and the UC Davis Advanced Highway Maintenance and Construction Technology (AHMCT) Research Center today released two reports highlighting ways to prevent rare but often deadly collisions involving wrong-way drivers.
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A surge in firearm purchasing in the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic – estimated to be over 2.1 million excess purchases – is linked to a significant increase in firearm violence, a study by UC Davis Violence Prevention Program (VPRP) suggests.
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From agricultural experts and economists to legal scholars and psychologists who help us understand the temptation to hoard, UC Davis researchers are providing guidance and creating solutions for now and the food systems of the future.
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The UCD program places MBA students (Fellows) on the boards of directors of partner organizations as non-voting, or adjunct, members and allows these students to contribute skills and time to help solve business challenges faced by partner organizations.
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School of Education researchers Prof. Michal Kurlaender and Dr. Sherrie Reed partnered with the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC) to conduct one of the largest surveys in the nation to gauge the impact of the pandemic on our college population and help guide response moving forward.
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About Public Scholarship and Engagement
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Public Scholarship and Engagement is fostering a culture of engagement at UC Davis that increases the university’s impact through mutually-beneficial relationships that have local, regional, statewide and global reach. We envision UC Davis research, teaching and learning that serves society and makes a positive difference in the world.
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