January 16, 2020 | Issue 3
Public Scholarship and Engagement Launches Faculty Fellows Program
On January 17, Public Scholarship and Engagement launches its inaugural  Community Engaged Learning Faculty Fellows program , established to create and improve community-based student learning experiences that will cultivate and foster a culture of engagement at UC Davis. 

The cohort-based program is organized around monthly meetings and mentorship to support individuals working to fully integrate this learning approach into existing courses and new curricular experiences. The first cohort includes UC Davis faculty from across disciplines – from design and plant sciences to education and medicine.

“This fellows program is a direct response to what we heard from our faculty," says Vice Provost of Pubic Scholarship and Engagement Michael Rios. "They told us to create ways that incorporate public engagement into teaching. The program is one of the many ways that PSE aims to support faculty. In doing so, it addresses one of the university’s primary goals, which is to reward and recognize public scholarship at UC Davis.” Continue reading...
Opportunities
Job Opening: Community Education Specialist 
The Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (WCAHS) at UC Davis is recruiting a Community Education Specialist to develop and conduct health and safety trainings in English and Spanish for the agricultural workforce. The Specialist will network and build collaborative relationships with labor groups, community organizations, commodity boards and commissions, UC Cooperative Extension, and growers, among others.

Deadline: January 20, 2020
Job Opening: Associate Director of Membership
Imagining America (IA) at UC Davis is recruiting an Associate Director of Membership to support IA member institutions and grow the consortium. Imagining America (IA) strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues. To learn more about this position and apply, external (non-UC Davis) candidates should go to the following link and enter job ID number 3513 in the keyword box. Internal (UC Davis) applicants will need to enter the recruiting center through their UC Path Recruiting Work Center portal.

Deadline: January 26, 2020
Global Experiential Learning Call for Proposals
Interested in leading an experiential learning program abroad? The Global Learning Hub within Global Affairs is seeking proposals for community-engaged learning opportunities with global dimensions. Global Learning Projects may be led by faculty (Senate and Federation), graduate students, or career staff with demonstrated expertise in the subject matter. For-credit programs require direct faculty leadership or supervision as instructor of record.

Deadline: February 10, 2020
CARE-University of California Innovation Fellowship Program
The CARE-University of California Innovation Fellowship Program is a UC graduate student research and training opportunity with CARE USA. This is an exciting opportunity to help advance the pace and scale of impact that CARE seeks to create in the world. The Fellowship is designed to address capacity and knowledge gaps necessary to advance key innovation and programmatic priorities at CARE and engage the Fellows in advancing real-world solutions to poverty alleviation.

Deadline: February 20, 2020
Upcoming Events
Graduate Student Workshop
Are You Engaged? Communicating the Value of Research to Public Audiences

Your research matters to people beyond the university, but it can be difficult to articulate how. This workshop is designed to help you frame your goals and objectives, understand your audience, and put your research in conversation to tell a compelling story.

January 21, 2020 | 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.
Student Community Center, Meeting Room D
Feminist Futures Research Symposium

Scholars from across disciplines meet to envision a more just world, and move us in that direction. Feminists of color along with indigenous and queer scholars, social justice scientists, writers, and artists all recognize the importance of envisioning the world toward which we want to grow.

January 23, 2020 | 12 p.m. — 6 p.m.
International Center Multipurpose Room
Team Science for the 21st Century

Team science approaches are increasingly important as collaborative work is necessary to solve big problems. This workshop will provide researchers of all levels strategies to incorporate team science into their work. Participants will engage in hands-on learning experiences and leave with resources and tools.

January 31, 2020 | 8:30 a.m. — 12 p.m.
UC Davis Activities and Recreation Center
Biodiversity Museum Day

Biodiversity Museum Day is a free, educational event for the community where visitors get to meet and talk with UC Davis scientists from undergraduate students to staff to emeritus professors. Come and join us as we explore amazing objects and organisms from all around the world!

February 15, 2020 | 8 a.m. — 4 p.m.
UC Davis
Need Support for Your Event?
Public Scholarship and Engagement provides co-sponsorship funding for events that contribute to our vision of UC Davis research, teaching and learning that serves society and makes a positive difference in the world.
Events include but are not limited to: conferences, symposia, guest lectures, workshops, trainings, film screenings, performances, exhibits and other activities with a public scholarship and/or public engagement focus.
Public Engagement Champions
RJ Taggueg's parents came to the U.S. from the Philippines when he was 7 years old. Now he's pursuing a Ph.D. in sociology at UC Davis with a focus on the undocumented Filipinx population. As part of his research, he's been interviewing immigrants in partnership with Migrante Napa-Solano, a grassroots organization devoted to defending and fighting for the welfare and rights of Filipino immigrant and migrant workers.

"There is no ‘us’ versus ‘them,’” he said. “I am part of the group. I want to help.” Read his story
Know a Public Engagement Champion? 
Public scholarship and engagement is all about people.The relationships they build with each other, the dialogue they participate in, the learning they advance, and the trust they create—together. If this sounds like you or someone you know, we would love to share the story.

In Case You Missed It
Veterinary medicine doctoral student Amanda Crofton is helping animals and people—and advancing global education for all—right in our own backyard.
Oanh Meyer is no stranger to Alzheimer’s disease. Her everyday life revolves around caring for those who suffer from the ailment.
Urchinomics and its partner, the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory, are running a trial designed to develop methods for ranching purple sea urchins while at the same time addressing the consequences of a nasty ecological chain reaction.
Alex Hobbs, a Ph.D. candidate in agricultural and resource economics at UC Davis, learned to code so he could build an app to help women in Kenya make decisions about livestock insurance.
About Public Scholarship and Engagement
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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