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Prominent Sacramento Family Wins Top UC Davis Volunteer Award

By Sarah Colwell, June 6, 2014

Robert “Bob” Murphy and his wife, Kinzie, have been selected as the 2014 recipients of the Charles J. Soderquist Award at UC Davis. The Murphys created a scholarship to support the School of Education’s Guardian Teacher Scholarship, among many other ways they have supported UC Davis over the past four decades. They cited the 2013 Soderquist Award winners, School of Education Alumni Sandi Redenbach and her husband Ken Gelatt, who donated their $5,000 award to the Guardian Teacher Scholarship fund. Read more about the Murphys’ honor here.

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Spring 2014 Student News

PhD Student Angie Cortes received the 2014-15 UC Davis Dissertation- Year Fellowship. Only six 12-month fellowships are awarded each year to doctoral students who are in the final stages of their doctoral work demonstrating strong potential for university teaching and research. Recipients receive a stipend of $25,000 and their in-state fees are covered. They also receive a research fund of $500 and a travel allowance of $500.

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Early Career Fellowship Awarded to Danny C. Martinez

Danny C. Martinez, assistant professor of education, has been selected to be a 2014 Concha Delgado Gaitan Presidential Fellow by the Council on Anthropology and Education. This early career fellowship is intended to support professional development and mentoring in the field of educational anthropology.

Only five fellowships are awarded each year, which pairs up early career scholars with senior scholars and comes with a $500 travel award to cover the cost of presenting at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.

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Alumnus Featured on Capital Public Radio to Discuss His Novel

May 2014

Ken White (BA ‘72, Credential ‘73) has written Getaway Day, a coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the 1962 World Series. The novel is published by Tate Publishing and is available through the publisher, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. White studied English and history at UC Davis before receiving his teaching credential. He worked on campus for Instructional Television from 1969-1975 and for the College of Engineering from 2006-2009.

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Danny C. Martinez Honored for Research on Black and Latino Youth’s Language and Literacy Practices

In recognition of his scholarship on the use of language among Black and Latino youth in urban English Language Arts classrooms, the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research (NCTEAR) has honored Danny C. Martinez, assistant professor of education, with an award for his continued work to increase diverse perspectives into how we examine language and literacy in multicultural and multilingual communities.

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New Book About Fiddyment Family Traces History of California Pioneers

David Fiddyment, a major donor to the School of Education and an innovative leader in California agriculture, and co-author Christina Richter have released Walk with me, I want to tell you something – The Story of the Roseville Fiddyment Family

For 150 years the Fiddyment family owned and operated ranches in some of the most picturesque countryside in northern California. Their history has links to the Donner Party and the Gold Rush. It includes the struggles and triumphs of being one of the most successful long-term ranching families in the state. Seven generations of this family have called Roseville, California their home. This is their story. David,  along with his wife Dolly, established the School’s first endowed chair the Dolly and David Fiddyment Chair in Teacher Education.

Purchase the book here.

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Michal Kurlaender Named Chancellor’s Fellow

November 19, 2013

Michal Kurlaender, associate professor of education, has joined an elite group of UC Davis faculty members named 2013-14 Chancellor’s Fellows. The honor recognizes outstanding records of achievement among early career faculty. Each fellow receives a $25,000 prize to support his or her research, teaching and service activities. Kurlaender retains the title of Chancellor’s Fellow until July 1, 2018. The Davis Chancellor’s Club and the university’s Annual Fund support the program.

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Research on Community-Based Professional Development and the Politics of Profanity

November 2013

Vajra Watson, director of research and policy for equity, published an article titled “Censoring Freedom: Community- Based Professional Development and the Politics of Profanity” in Equity & Excellence in Education, Vol. 46, Issue 3, 2013. In the Special Issue: Social Justice Approaches to African American Language and Literary Practices, Watson documents the tensions rising from a program that encourages youth to write and perform poetry that taps into their lived experiences in tough neighborhoods and often contains profanity.

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Leveraging Funding for Expanded Learning

Article by Renee Newton, Frank Pisi, and Joanne Bookmyer

In an article in the November/December 2013 Leadership magazine, a publication of the Association of California School Administrators(ACSA), the UC Davis School of Education’s Renee Newton, Frank Pisi and Joanne Bookmyer make the case for California school districts with expanded learning programs to use a portion of the extra Common Core funding they are slated to receive to ensure children in out-of-school-time programs are well prepared to tackle the new standards. Read the full article at ACSA’s site.

Newton is the director of the Center for Community School Partnerships in the School’s CRESS Center, Pisi is director of the California Afterschool Network, and Bookmyer is director of collaborative projects.

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Professor Cary Trexler Awarded Grant from Vietnam Education Foundation

July 19, 2013

The U.S. government’s Vietnam Education Foundation has awarded a U.S. Faculty Scholar grant to Glenn Young and Cary Trexler of the University of California, Davis. Both are associate professors, Young in the Department of Food Science and Technology, and Trexler in the School of Education.

The one-year grant will support the establishment of a participatory research class in Vietnam, for Vietnamese undergraduates, to guide them through projects related to preharvest, postharvest, food science, crop science and food safety.

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