Our fantastic animal behavior students swept the prestigious Warder Clyde Allee Award for best student paper and presentation! The honorable mention for the award went to Dr. Victoria Farrar, who graduated with a PhD in Animal Behavior in 2022 from the lab of Professor Rebecca Calisi (who was the 2010 Allee winner). Victoria presented results from her PhD showing that prior parental experiences may lead to lasting changes to hormonal stress responses, even beyond the parental care period.
The final round of the UC Davis Grad Slam had a flurry of PowerPoint slides, a giant deck of cards and a stuffed monkey, but in the end the top prize went to someone talking about genetic “ghosts.”
Graduate Studies and Graduate Council are pleased to present awards for outstanding mentoring of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. The Distinguished Graduate and Postdoctoral Mentorship Awards recognize the vital role mentoring plays in the academic and professional development of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars at UC Davis. A letter of recognition and $1,000 will be conferred to each awardee.
About the size of a small school bus, the basking shark is the second largest fish in the ocean and is found in temperate and tropical waters across the globe. In the mid-1900s, basking sharks were observed by the thousands each year off California’s coast. Now they are rarely seen at all in this region, called the California Current Ecosystem, or CCE.