Graduate and Professional School Research

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Moreover, you’ll be working with faculty mentors who keep in touch throughout your career to help you make connections within academia and industry.</p><p>Read these stories about how our students have connected their personal passions to scholarship in their fields of study:</p><h3>BernNadette Best-Green, education</h3><div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-sf-large"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/sf_large_width/public/media/images/bestgreen_bernnadette-research-graduate.jpg?itok=cNWxwQyJ" width="860" height="344" alt="student students talking about research in a classroom" typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-sf-large-width"> </div> <p><br><a href="https://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/news/bernnadette-best-green">BernNadette Best-Green</a> is passionate about increasing equity and social justice for academically vulnerable populations. Inspired by scholars whose research in teacher education fostered improved outcomes for diverse populations, Best-Green was determined to conduct her own research with the goal of better preparing teachers to effectively educate <em>all</em> students. Her research study, “Thriving While Black,” seeks to understand what black university students think about how their K-12 experiences helped and harmed them.</p><h3>MBA IMPACT Strategic Project Team </h3><div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/images/MBA-IMPACT-Strategic-Project-Team-uc-davis-1.webp" width="860" height="344" alt="A group posing for a photo on Tahoe Environmental Research Center boat" typeof="foaf:Image"> </div> <p><br>The UC Davis MBA program’s IMPACT curriculum (Integrated Management Project + Articulation and Critical Thinking) builds a broad foundation of business knowledge and skills. As part of the 10-week IMPACT project, six UC Davis MBA students partnered with the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center to explore the potential commercialization of invasive mysis shrimp that could be trawled from Lake Tahoe to help the lake's clarity. The MBA team presented a plan to use the Omega3-rich shrimp as an ingredient in mass-market dog treats. <a href="https://gsm.ucdavis.edu/blog/surprisingly-tasty-solution-tahoes-little-monsters">Learn more</a> </p><h3>Angel Hinzo, Native American studies</h3><div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/images/angel-hinzo-native-american-studies-graduate-research.jpg" width="860" height="344" alt="portrait of Angel Hinzo a graduate student of Native American Studies" typeof="foaf:Image"> </div> <p><br>As a U.S. history student at UC San Diego studying the current literature — or lack thereof — on Native American boarding school alums, their narratives and histories, <a href="https://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/news/angel-hinzo">Angel Hinzo</a> hadn’t thought about continuing past a bachelor’s degree. But a mentor encouraged her to consider graduate studies with the <a href="http://nas.ucdavis.edu/welcome">Native American studies (NAS) program</a> at UC Davis. Her dissertation is a historical narrative of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin that focuses on the 1940-1980 time period.</p><h3>Asian Pacific American Law Students Association</h3><div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/images/asian-pacific-american-law-students-association-graduate-research.jpg" width="860" height="344" alt="four students pose for a portrait of Hong Yen Chang as part of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association" typeof="foaf:Image"> </div> <p><br>Students in the UC Davis School of Law’s <a href="https://law.ucdavis.edu/news/news.aspx?id=5243">Asian Pacific American Law Students Association</a> petitioned the California State Supreme Court in 2014 on behalf of lawyer Hong Yen Chang. They pointed out that the laws that prevented him from practicing as an attorney have been discredited and repealed, asking the court to “right this historic wrong.” In a March 16, 2015, opinion that includes “a candid reckoning with a sordid chapter of our state and national history,” the court granted Chang posthumous admission as an attorney and counselor in all California courts.</p><h3>Tonio Garay, food science and technology</h3><div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/images/tonio-garay-food-science-technology-graduate-research-uc-davis.jpg" width="860" height="344" alt="two students working in a lab as part of the Food Science and Technology program" typeof="foaf:Image"> </div> <p><br><a href="http://ucdavis.edu/ucdavis-today/2015/september/16-top-mexican-grad-students-at-uc-davis.html">Tonio Garay of Monterrey, Mexico</a>, is helping to develop biofuels and other products based on yeast fermentation. His research source? The <a href="http://phaffcollection.ucdavis.edu/">Phaff Yeast Culture Collection</a>, the fourth largest yeast collection in the world. “We have treasures there just waiting to be discovered,” Garay said of the 8,000 strains in the campus collection. After earning a degree in chemical sciences from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Garay first worked in industry and then started at UC Davis in 2012 in the doctoral program.  He hopes to set up his own company or work in industry in Mexico or the United States after graduation.</p><h3>Dan Villarreal, linguistics</h3><div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/images/dan-villarreal-linguistics-graduate-research-uc-davis.jpg" width="860" height="344" alt="student writing on a dry erase board with pictures of maps in the background as part of the linguistics graduate study program" typeof="foaf:Image"> </div> <p><br>As an undergrad at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, <a href="https://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/news/dan-villarreal">Dan Villarreal</a> began to notice a common thread when he and his peers exchanged information about courses. “I’d hear: ‘This course is good, but the professor doesn’t speak English,” he says. 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Unlike what is traditionally taught in nursing schools, where students face individuals in an acute-care simulation, Dharmasukrit and Corson created a three-person scenario. In it, they asked nursing students to think critically, problem-solve and prioritize issues related to caring for more than one person at a time.</p><h3>Cindy Preto, entomology</h3><div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/images/cindy-preto-entomology-graduate-research-uc-davis.jpg" width="860" height="344" alt="Cindy Preto working in the field as part of the Entomology program" typeof="foaf:Image"> </div> <p><br>The first thing you notice about <a href="/news/grad-student-unpestered-adversity">Cindy Preto</a> is her unbridled enthusiasm, whether she’s monitoring leafhopper eggs in a UC Davis research vineyard or sharing insect photos of everything from assassin bugs to praying mantids. She received her bachelor’s degree in <a href="http://wineserver.ucdavis.edu/">viticulture and enology</a> — grape growing and winemaking — with an <a href="http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/">entomology minor</a> in agricultural pest management in June. And now she’s working on her <a href="https://grad.ucdavis.edu/programs/gent">master’s degree in entomology</a> — the study of insects.</p><h3>Tyler Mackey, geology</h3><div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/images/tyler-mackey-geology-graduate-research-uc-davis.jpg" width="860" height="344" alt="Tyler Mackey leaning against a graphic representation of the Earth's crust" typeof="foaf:Image"> </div> <p><br><a href="https://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/news/tyler-mackey">This doctoral student</a> in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences is diving into frigid Antarctic lakes to learn about Earth’s history and the relationship between life and its surrounding environment. He conducts most of his research under thick sheets of ice in water just above freezing temperatures — in the middle of a frozen continent. “I have made three trips down to Antarctica in the course of my graduate work, and I am currently gearing up for a fourth,” Mackey says.</p><h3>Julie Sheldon, veterinary medicine</h3><div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/images/veterniary-medicine-graduate-research-uc-davis.jpg" width="860" height="344" alt="tortoise with a GPS " typeof="foaf:Image"> </div> <p><br>Vet student Julie Shelton conducted a STAR (Students Training in Advanced Research) project in the Galapagos Islands. “We performed complete health assessments on tortoises including a physical exam, blood and fecal collection, ultrasound, morphometric data collection and weight measurement. 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