Education

Every summer since 2012, students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have conducted research at UC Davis as part of the UC-HBCU Initiative. And every summer, Rick Grosberg, Professor and Director of the Coastal and Marine Science Institute, and I have taken a group of these and other summer research students to the Bodega Marine Laboratory.

The “Science Uncorked” lecture series at the Gourmet Au Bay wine bar are the brainchild of Ellie Fairbairn and Kristin Aquilino, researchers at nearby Bodega Marine Labortory — part of UC Davis’ Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute. They coordinate the biweekly series independent of their work at BML, to communicate science to the public and inspire environmental stewardship.

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Woutrina Smith is an Associate Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis. 

Faculty, staff and students gathered at UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory today not for their weekly seminar, but to remember their colleague Susan L. Williams who died in a car accident Tuesday (April 24) while en route to the Davis campus to teach.

The University of California, Davis is set to receive nearly $3 million dollars from the National Science Foundation to  train the next generation of marine scientists with an emphasis and  focus on policy at the front end of research.