UC Davis Global Affairs awarded grants to four College of Letters and Science faculty for international projects focused on renewable energy, biodesign, tuberculosis and democracy.

Jesús M. Velázquez, assistant professor of chemistry, and colleagues at UC Davis and in Mexico received a $7,500 award from a Global Affairs grant program aimed at achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Three recent doctoral degree recipients in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science have been awarded American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowships.

Clues to historian Fernando Purcell’s deep connections to UC Davis are spelled out in block lettering at his home in Chile: “ORCHARD PARK,” “DAVIS CA BLVD” and “BAUER AVE” read the American-street-style signs on his family vineyard in Colchagua Valley, about 6,000 miles from campus.

Nearly nine months after history professor emeritus Arnold Bauer died in Davis at age 84, family, friends and former students held a memorial ceremony April 19, 2016, in a chapel of a historic estate featured in Bauer’s book, "Chilean Rural Society: From the Spanish Conquest to 1930."

William San Martín, a Fulbright scholar from Chile and a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American history, is the content and program coordinator for the Oct. 17, 2015, Chile California Conference, “Envisioning the Future, Creating it Together."