Global Affairs is inspiring global curiosity, understanding, and engagement at UC Davis and beyond.| globalaffairs.ucdavis.edu
Professor Jiayi Young, a UC Davis design faculty member, uses data-driven art and international collaboration to explore how technology shapes society and culture. From France’s Useful Fictions to Taiwan’s AI for ALL, her projects—supported by Global Affairs grants—foster cross-disciplinary partnerships that connect art, science, and global education to reimagine technology’s role in our shared future.| Global Affairs - Inspiring global curiosity, understanding, and engagement.
The UC Davis Global Community Emergency Fund provides vital support to UC Davis’s international community members facing urgent financial needs due to humanitarian crises.| Global Affairs
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About the FundThe Global Community Emergency Fund provides direct support to UC Davis international students, scholars, faculty, and staff with an urgent financial need due to humanitarian crises, including natural disasters, conflict, or economic hardship.Eligibility and ProcessThis fund supports members of the UCD international community holding a U.S. visa.| Global Affairs
To support threatened scholars and other members of the UC Davis community facing urgent financial need, the Threatened Scholars Committee created the Global Community Emergency Fund. This fund helped bring Dr. Ahmad Aalemi, an outstanding physician and academic from Afghanistan, to the UC Davis campus.| Global Affairs
As faculty and students begin online courses and wonder about how to strengthen global and international collaborations in the present context, Global Affairs has gathered a set of resources to help faculty connect with others around the world and support students in becoming global thinkers and learners.| Global Affairs
UC Davis is working towards an ambitious goal of Global Education for All, aiming to provide 100% of students—undergraduate, graduate and professional—with global learning experiences that change their lives and our world. The following framework is being used to guide initiative activity and planning.| Global Affairs
Committed to educating the next generation of problem solvers and change makers, UC Davis is working towards Global Education for All—a goal aiming to provide 100% of our undergraduate, graduate, and professional students with global learning opportunities that change their lives and our world.| Global Affairs
The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program returns to UC Davis in 2025-26 with eight Fellows.| Global Affairs
The Global Affairs Seed Grants for International Activities program gives life to bold ideas in international research and engagement, generating many important international partnerships, long-term research projects, and millions in external funding.| Global Affairs
With Global Affairs since 2023 Education Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, University of California, Davis M.A., Ethnomusicology, Communications, and Film, North Carolina State University B.S., Audio Recording, Indiana University Languages English Spanish Portuguese| Global Affairs
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UC Davis Sustainable Development Leadership Initiative| Global Affairs
Kate is a fifth-year double-major in human development and communications. During her second year at UC Davis, she took part in a study abroad program, and her place of choice was none other than the magnificent destination of Madrid, Spain.| Global Affairs
The Global Engagement Insider Newsletter shares funding, opportunities, announcements and resources for UC Davis globally engaged faculty and staff.| Global Affairs - Inspiring global curiosity, understanding, and engagement.
Global Affairs is pleased to share the recipients of the 2025 Peter and Marion London Global Learning Expansion Grant Program. In its inaugural year, the grant supports faculty in developing or enhancing global learning components in their courses.| Global Affairs - Inspiring global curiosity, understanding, and engagement.
Taking on a mission to expand awareness about global learning opportunities at UC Davis, the Aggies Near and Far podcast club produces educational episodes each month. It is led by Ph.D. candidate and fourth-year graduate student Jannet Torres Espinoza, who takes her knowledge of Latin American Literature, Culture, and Human Rights and applies it to podcasting.| Global Affairs
The University of California, Davis, has been named one of the top producers of U.S. Fulbright students for 2022-23, according to the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.| Global Affairs
The Global Affairs SDG Internship provides an opportunity for UC Davis undergraduate students to actively contribute to campus engagement on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), gaining knowledge of organizational strategy, campus and external coordination, and communications and analytical skills to support this global agenda.| Global Affairs
This piece explores how empathy, when practiced consistently and deeply, can serve as a powerful motivator in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. By countering desensitization and embracing empathy starting from within, individuals can take meaningful action toward a more equitable, compassionate, and sustainable world.| Global Affairs
What Does Global Learning Look Like?| Global Affairs
Congratulations to our 2024-25 Seed Grant RecipientsPartnering with UC Davis colleges and schools, the Office of Research and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Global Affairs provides Seed Grants for International Activities to faculty taking on innovative research, service and engagement projects around the world.| Global Affairs
The Chancellor's Awards for International Engagement recognizes UC Davis faculty and staff members for outstanding international engagement in carrying out the university’s mission of teaching, research and outreach.| Global Affairs
Seven faculty and staff members from UC Davis are being recognized for their outstanding global engagement work with two key awards: the Chancellor’s Award for International Engagement and the Excellence in Teaching for Global Learning Award. These awards recognize the outstanding work of UC Davis faculty and staff in international education, research and service.| Global Affairs
The rise of the Taliban’s influence didn’t just displace the hopes and dreams of Afghanistan’s citizens but also jeopardized the knowledge and advancements of the academic community. Dr. Homayoon Ganji, a researcher from Afghanistan, was forced to leave or risk becoming a political target of the Taliban. Despite immense challenges, Dr. Ganji, a renowned expert in water resource engineering, has traveled the globe and advanced agricultural innovation while carrying the weight of a homela...| Global Affairs
Mary Alurwar is a UC Davis Global Affairs’ international scholar advisor within Services for International Students and Scholars. She serves as the J-1 lead advisor and backup for H1-Bs. In October, Alurwar traveled to Germany to learn the latest trends in Germany’s higher education system. She received a 2024 Fulbright International Education Administrator (IEA) Award, which awarded her a 2-week program, travel, and accommodation grant.| Global Affairs
