Summer 2025 Content

Aggies at the Helm

Russell L Thebaud — June 25, 2025 - 3:58pm

What begins at UC Davis doesn’t stop at graduation. For these three alumni, it led all the way to the president’s office — shaping the future of higher education at universities across the country.

Meet Ellen Granberg ’84, president of George Washington University (GW); Doug Girod ’81, chancellor of the University of Kansas (KU); and Carol Folt Ph.D. ’82, president of the University of Southern ��Ƶ (USC).

Graduate Aggie Athletes Make Their Mark

Jocelyn C Anderson — June 09, 2025 - 2:27pm

Not every college athlete turns pro, so UC Davis prioritizes preparing student-athletes for life after sports. A new collaboration between UC Davis Athletics and the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, or GSM, is creating a new pathway that extends student-athletes' collegiate careers while preparing them for post-competition success.

Alum Bridges Art and Science

Jocelyn C Anderson — June 09, 2025 - 1:58pm

Qinqin Liu, Ph.D. ’90, approaches her art from a scientific perspective, drawing on her experience at UC Davis exploring the intersection of art and science.

Park Life

Jocelyn C Anderson — June 02, 2025 - 12:58pm

Did Al Capone have an outpost in the Everglades? How do inanimate stones manage to slide across the flat landscape of Death Valley National Park? And what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke?

For outdoor writer Mike Bezemek ’03, these tantalizing mysteries, and many others, are the subject of his new book, Mysteries of the National Parks: 35 Stories of Baffling Disappearances, Unexplained Phenomena, and More (Sourcebooks, 2025).

Ph.D. Alum Kathleen DuVal Wins Pulitzer Prize

Jocelyn C Anderson — May 21, 2025 - 9:40am

Kathleen DuVal, Ph.D. ’01, won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Random House, 2024). Prize winners were announced on May 5.

The announcement comes in addition to other prestigious awards DuVal has already received for the book, including the Bancroft Prize, the Cundill History Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize.

DuVal said the positive reception to the book was apparent immediately.

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