Department Faculty Receive UC Davis’s Distinguished Graduate and Postdoctoral Mentorship Award
8 Faculty Across Three CBS Departments Recognized at Campus-Wide Event
On October 19, UC Davis celebrated something fundamental to graduate education that too often goes unrecognized: the extraordinary work of mentorship.
The Distinguished Graduate and Postdoctoral Mentorship Award, conferred by Graduate Studies in partnership with the Graduate Council of the Academic Senate, recognizes faculty whose exceptional mentorship has made a lasting difference in the lives of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.
Since 2017, 34 faculty members have received this singular, lifetime honor. Yet despite the significance of this distinction, the award and the faculty behind it had received relatively little public recognition. This year's Celebration of Distinguished Mentors set out to change that—and to establish an annual tradition worthy of the people it honors.
CBS Recipients of the Distinguished Graduate and Postdoctoral Mentorship Award
- 2023: Aldrin Gomes, Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
- 2022: Thomas Hahn, Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
- 2022: Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
- 2019: Brian Gaylord, Evolution and Ecology
- 2019: Graham Coop, Evolution and Ecology
- 2018: Jay Stachowicz, Evolution and Ecology
- 2017: Sharon Strauss, Evolution and Ecology
- 2017: Richard Grosberg, Evolution and Ecology