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2022-23 Seed Grants for International Activities Recipients

Congratulations to our 2022-23 Seed Grant Recipients

Partnering with UC Davis colleges and schools, the Office of Research and the Office of 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.

2022-23 Grant Recipients 

Fawaz George Haj

Molecular Underpinnings of Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease (Asia)

College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Frank Loge

Improving the Resiliency of Drinking Water Systems in Latin America (Latin America and the Caribbean)

College of Engineering

Heather Bischel and Irwin Donis Gonzalez 

Food Security through Resource Recovery: Assessment of Urine Processing Technologies for Container-Based Sanitation (CBS) Services in Guatemala (Latin America and the Caribbean)

College of Engineering

Nicholas Pinter, Helen Dahlke and Thomas Harter 

Sustainable Water Management in a Water-Limited World: UC Davis and IHE Delft (Europe)

College of Letters and Science and College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Shingirai Taodzera and Benjamin Weber

Human Rights and Reparations in African & African American History: Lessons from South Africa for California (Africa)

College Letters and Science

Diana Moreira

State Paralysis: The Impacts of Procurement Risk on Government Effectiveness

College of Letters and Science

Jaimey Fisher

Transatlantic Digital Humanities Workshops on the Democratic Pivot and Modern Media:  Mapping Democratization, Decolonization, and Refugee Regimes in Postwar Europe (Europe)

College of Letters and Science

Christina Murdoch Mills and Thomas Timar

Comparative International Research in Education Policy to Address Educational Inequities

 School of Education

Kristen Aiemjoy

Pediatric Scrub Typhus in Nepal: a New Research Collaboration with Kanti Children’s Hospital (Asia)

School of Medicine

Brian Bird and Leith Meyer

Investigation of Rhinoceros Bloodborne Pathogens and other High Consequence Zoonotic Viruses at Wildlife Corridor Restoration Sites in South Africa (Africa)

School of Veterinary Medicine and University of Pretoria, South Africa

Maurice Pitesky, Christopher Simmons and Yanhong Liu

Developing Novel Post-Consumer Food Scraps as a Feed Source for Commercial Village Poultry in Uganda (Africa)

School of Veterinary Medicine and College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences