It was great to be back in person for the 2022 Halloween Symposium hosted by the DEI Task Force. The day kicked off with three selected speakers, followed by an excellent keynote from Luis Carvajal-Carmona, and ended with an in-depth discussion of the Genome Center's climate. The DEI Task Force will use the feedback from the discussion to host future events.
We thank the sponsors for supporting the Halloween Symposium and everyone for participating.
Pam Ronald, of the Genome Center and College of Biological Sciences, was recently featured on 'Face to Face' with Chancellor May. They discussed Ronald's 30-year career in plant pathology and her recent awards, including the Wolf Prize. Watch the full interview below.
The Genome Center’s DEI Task Force held its first meeting on October 20, 2021, and has since met nine times. The Genome Center’s DEI Task Force aims to monitor and improve the climate at the Genome Center, promote a workplace that reflects the diversity of the community, and diminish the barriers to equity in the center. The task force will promote historically under-represented populations.
The DEI Task Force has accomplished one main task: created and released a questionnaire to gauge the current diversity of members and overall climate at the Genome Center.
C. Titus Brown was named a 2021-2022 Public Scholarship Faculty Fellow by UC Davis. C. Titus Brown is a Genome Center faculty member and an associate professor in the Department of Population Health, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Public Scholarship program supports faculty members in developing publicly engaged research.
Clarivate's 2021 list of Highly Cited Researchers recognizes scientists whose papers rank in the top 1% of citations in the field and in Web of Science. Three of the top ten highly-cited scientists at UC Davis are members of the Genome Center. We congratulate Siobhan Brady, Jonathan Eisen, and Oliver Fiehn for their contributions and dedication to their respective fields.
This program is designed to support highly innovative, transformative research.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced the award of 106 grants to support highly innovative and broadly impactful biomedical or behavioral research via the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, which funds highly innovative proposals that may struggle in traditional peer-reviewed grants due to the high risk of the proposal.
