This annual award was instituted in 1994 to recognize faculty for excellence in mentoring undergraduate research as a way to emphasize the importance and visibility of faculty’s contribution to the excellence in mentoring and advocacy for undergraduate research and creative activities.
Dr. Joss Greene has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research in the Faculty Category.
Associate Professor Jacob Hibel received a research grant from the Urban Institute for a project titled "What Skills Help Students with Disabilities Thrive?"
The Office of Academic Diversity, a unit of the Vice Chancellor’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, is proud to announce Maxine Craig will be the new faculty director of the Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Social Science, Arts, and Humanities (CAMPSSAH).
The American Sociological Association's Sex & Gender section announced that Joss's article, "Gender Bound: Making, Managing, and Navigating Prison Gender Boundaries, 1941–2018" (American Journal of Sociology) is a co-winner of the section's distinguished article award.
Joss Greene's "The Insurgent Agency of Incarcerated Trans Women of Color," published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society48(4), 873–896, won the American Sociological Association's Section on Body & Embodiment article award.
Veronica Lerma's article “Intersectional Criminalization: How Chicanas Experience and Navigate Criminalization through Interpersonal Relationships with Latino Men and Boys” published in Sociological Perspectives 66(2), 311-330, received the American Sociological Association's Section on Crime, Law & Deviance James F. Short Distinguished Article Award.
UC Davis has been selected to receive one of three $350,000 grants to establish a Ph.D. pathways program via the University of California-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative.
