The Alberini Family Speaker Series is supported through
an endowment by the Carlos and Andrea Alberini Family Foundation.
It brings renowned innovators and thinkers in design to campus
and in virtual formats to inspire students and encourage
community engagement and learning.
Gozde Goncu-Berk, associate professor, is among UC Davis’
newest class of Chancellor’s Fellows, a title given to early
career academics doing exemplary work.
Filmmakers and professors Glenda
Drew (of Design) and Jesse
Drew (of Cinema and Digital Media) have completed a project
decades in the making — a documentary about the roots of American
Country Music titled Open Country. It
tells a longer arc of country music that is not rooted in ‘God
and Country’ but in working class people telling their stories,
seeking freedom from government interference and a good,
dignified life.
Associate Professor Beth Ferguson will give two upcoming talks
centering on her recent work on climate adaptation and
sustainable mobility at the UC Santa Cruz and a WTS Advancing
Women Advancing Transportation event in Sacramento.
The UC Davis Department of Design presents Jesse Colin Jackson,
associate professor of electronic art and design, UC Irvine,
who will give a presentation on “Placeless by Design: Tower
Apartments at Three Scales” on May 22 at noon in Cruess Hall
1105. The event is free.
This year’s Arts and Humanities Graduate Exhibition, running June
6 – 24 at the Jan
Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, features student
work from across the College of Letters and Science.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA