The AAAS bestowed Professor J. Edward Taylor, a lifetime honor of being an elected Fellow in recognition of his extraordinary achievements in advancing science. UC Davis News mentioned 10 members are from the university.
USA Today featured Professor Bradford Jones comments on how "finding any common ground on a broader immigration bill like the one passed by the Senate in 2013 will be even harder" after the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives.
Professor Peri also comments that “immigration in a local economy does not depress wages or reduce the job opportunities for American workers. Instead, it allows this place to continue to grow”.
Assistant Professors Katherine Eriksson and Jenna Stearns have received two of the seven Junior Faculty Research Grants awarded this year by UC Davis's Institute for Social Sciences (ISS).
Assistant Professor Katherine Eriksson has received a UC Davis Hellman Fellowship for the 2018-2019 academic year. Hellman Fellowships are awarded each year to promising early-career researchers across many divisions of the university.
Cecilia M. Tsu awarded UC Davis Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellowship for the project -“Starting Over: Refugee Resettlement in the Reagan Era”
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Marketplace featured Giovanni Peri's interview on the question "where workers will come from when current U.S. immigration policy is reducing the amount of immigrant labor?"