February 13, 2020 | Issue 4
New Public Impact Research Initiative: Call for Grant Proposals
Public Scholarship and Engagement is excited to announce the launch of the Public Impact Research Initiative. The new initiative was designed to recognize and support publicly-engaged research at UC Davis. For its inaugural year, the Public Impact Research Initiative is offering grants that will support research activities with non-university partners in one of the two following categories:

  1. Seed Grants to support the development of new research collaborations; and
  2. Bridge Grants to deepen, sustain, or evaluate existing collaborative research.

UC Davis Academic Senate and Academic Federation members from any UC Davis location are eligible to apply.
 
Recipients of a Public Impact Research Initiative grant will receive up to $10,000 for proposed activities.  Applications and supporting materials must be received by February 29, 2020. Continue reading...
Opportunities
Recruitment Announcement: Graduate Student Researcher (GSR)
Public Scholarship and Engagement is recruiting a motivated graduate student researcher (GSR) to join our team. Primary responsibilities include conducting literature reviews related to public scholarship, student learning, and community university partnerships; conducting research and preparing assessments of proposed programs and initiatives, including comparisons with peer institutions; assisting with events, meetings and workshops to present and solicit feedback on PSE programs and initiatives.

Deadline: February 25, 2020
Recruitment Announcement: Associate Director for Community Engagement
The UC Davis Environmental Health Center's Community Engagement Core seeks an Academic Coordinator for this full time, career position located within the Community Engagement Core (CEC) at the Environmental Health Sciences Core Center (EHSC). The Community Engagement Core (CEC) facilitates bi-directional exchange of information and resources between the EHSC and community members, decision makers, public health professionals, and educators.

Deadline: February 26, 2020
Recruitment Announcement: Associate Vice Provost for Academic Programs
Public Scholarship and Engagement seeks a tenured member of the UC Davis Academic Senate faculty to serve in a 75% time, three-year, administrative appointment as Associate Vice Provost for Academic Programs. The primary responsibility of the Associate Vice Provost for Academic Programs is to promote, facilitate, and provide leadership for UC Davis faculty to pursue and expand publicly-engaged research, teaching and learning, programs and initiatives.

Deadline: February 29, 2020
Help Us Test Our New Database and Web Portal!
Public Scholarship and Engagement is launching a database to capture publicly engaged programs and opportunities at UC Davis, and a searchable directory or web portal to promote these opportunities more broadly. But before we officially launch, we need your input to improve these tools!

During the focus groups, participants will preview our database and web portal and provide feedback on their functionality and usability. Please choose one or both of the following days to attend, lunch will be provided.

March 2 | 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Hoagland Hall 260 (open to faculty and staff ONLY)
March 4 | 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Hoagland Hall 260 (open to faculty, staff and students)
Upcoming Events
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
Dialogue and Design

Join Imagining America, the Center for Regional Change, and the Department of Human Ecology for a dialogue with Eric Gordon, Ph.D., Professor of Media Art and Director of the Engagement Lab at Emerson College. Dr. Gordon will share ideas from his new book Meaningful Inefficiencies: Civic Design in an Age of Digital Expediency .

February 19, 2020 | 5 p.m. — 6:30 p.m.
International House Davis
Campus Global Theme: Food for Thought

Join Global Affairs in celebrating the inaugural Campus Global Theme: Food for Thought, Feeding Ourselves Feeding the Planet by attending one of the 25+ events emphasizing the global dimensions of discussing, celebrating, analyzing and acting upon feeding humanity.

February - June 2020
UC Davis
Tenth Annual UC Davis Equity Summit and Social Justice Awards

Join educators, community members and experts from a range of disciplines for this annual event addressing the pertinent social issues of our time. The UC Davis Equity Summit coalesces people, ideas and institutions to deepen strategies, shape actions and create solutions

March 10 | 4 p.m. — 9 p.m.
UC Davis Conference Center
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
Professor Sanjay Joshi from the  Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and his lab are working with people in the medical, engineering, and disability communities to improve the capabilities of machines to assist people with physical limitations. After research focused on converting muscle signals into computer commands, his team is testing how human muscle electrical signals can be used to control assistive robots. 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
Hannah Adamy, a 2019 Mellon Public Scholar, spent her summer creating spaces for women and gender-expansive musicians in Sacramento to come together and jam.
Undergraduate student Johnathan Ho found a passion project at the Knights Landing One Health Center which provides healthcare services to the rural farming community of Knights Landing, Calif: creating a community garden for the area’s underserved population.
The opening of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) bee research facility marks a new opportunity for USDA and UC Davis entomologists to collaborate and investigate serious problems that affect stakeholders.
Veterinary medicine doctoral student Amanda Crofton is helping animals and people—and advancing global education for all—right in our own backyard.
Jessica Wallach, graduate student in international agricultural development at UC Davis, says that smartphone apps can help people in Senegal find work and get paid.
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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