IN THIS COLUMN
- Joanna Chiu, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
- April Ferre, School of Medicine
- Zoe Pestana, College of Letters and Science
- Shuxiao Zhang, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
- Roger Boulton, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and College of Engineering
- Andrew Waterhouse, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
- Ye Chen-Izu, College of Engineering and School of Medicine
- Zhongli Pan, College of Engineering
- Magdalena Wojcieszak, College of Letters and Science
The closed out the academic year with a ceremony for the presentation of chancellor’s awards and other honors to students for research excellence, creativity and publishing, and to a faculty member, lab manager and two graduate students for their mentorship of undergraduate researchers.
The Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research were given as follows, by category:
- Faculty — Joanna Chiu, professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
- Postdoc/Scientist — April Ferre, Ph.D., lab manager for Professor Barbara Shacklett, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine.
- Graduate Students — Zoe Pestana, psychology; and Shuxiao Zhang, plant sciences and Plant Biology Graduate Group
Here are the student award categories and recipients:
- Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Dean Keith Simonton Prize — Ibrahim Dagher, philosophy; and Alyse Lodigiani, cognitive science. Honorable mention: Samuel Carter, neurobiology, physiology and behavior; Quincy Kumfert, political science, and genetics and genomics; and Alex Neupauer, genetics and genomics.
- Dean Keith Simonton Prize for Creativity in Undergraduate Research — Alicia Dye, cognitive science-neuroscience emphasis; and Peter Reifenstein, biochemistry and molecular biology.
- Hanson Family Undergraduate Research Publishing Award — Samuel Carter, neurobiology, physiology and behavior; Ibrahim Dagher, philosophy; and Indira D’Souza, global disease biology.
Two emeritus professors were among the eight recipients of Wine Lifetime Achievement Awards presented last week by the Ƶ State Fair and its Wine Advisory Task Force. In a showing of UC Davis' major role in the state's wine industry, all eight recipients — two per year for 2020 through 2023 (making up for pandemic years when the awards were no presented) — have UC Davis connections.
The honored professors:
- , distinguished professor, who retired in 2019 from the Department of Viticulture and Enology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and Department of Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering.
- , professor, who retired in 2022 from the Department of Viticulture and Enology, and who this month is stepping down after five years as the director of the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.
Of the other six recipients, five are winemakers who attended and/or earned degrees at UC Davis:
- Cathy Corison, M.S. ’78, owner, Corison Winery, St. Helena
- Randall Grahm ’79, owner, Bonny Doon Vineyard, Santa Cruz
- Ed Moody ’73, M.S. ’74, head winemaker, Bronco Wine Co., Ceres (retired)
- Michaela Rodeno ’68, M.A. ’70, owner, Villa Ragazzi Vineyards and Winery, Napa; and wine industry advisor and retired executive
- Dave Stare, owner, Dry Creek Vineyard, Healdsburg
The eighth Lifetime Achievement Award went to Bob Thompson, wine writer, who is among the contributors to the .
“Our wine industry would not enjoy the vibrant condition it does today without your pioneering work,” said Mark Chandler, chief judge of the Ƶ State Fair Commercial Wine Competition, a Lodi winemaker and industry consultant.
Waterhouse, in his farewell column in the RMI e-newsle