Since 2000, the UC Davis Big Bang! Business Competition has been supporting entrepreneurs as they develop their business ventures. It is open to teams with a founder or team lead affiliated with a college or university in California. The prizes are funded by corporate, university, nonprofit and various other sponsors.
Kaya Miller, a second-year UC Davis undergraduate, introduces her three 3-week-old foster kittens: Anna, Elsa and Merida. She explains that as a busy student, she and her roommate have taken on alternating shifts feeding and cleaning the kittens. “It’s a lot of dedication; we have to wake up every two hours, but it's so worth it,” she said.
Miller is a volunteer foster within the Orphan Kitten Project, or OKP, a nonprofit, vet-student-run club that has rescued and rehabilitated neonatal kittens since 1988.
For the first time in more than a decade, the UC Davis chapter of the Student American Veterinary Medical Association (SAVMA) is bringing the SAVMA Symposium back to campus. Last held at UC Davis in 2011, this 3-day event is hosted annually at alternating veterinary schools and is open to all SAVMA members. The national conference is the only one of its kind, organized by veterinary students for veterinary students.
UC Davis undergrads have an opportunity to prepare for applying to veterinary school with the help of the Vet Aide Club—a student-run club with a long history of preparing its members to be competitive in animal care fields through hands-on experience, mentorship, and guidance.
Congratulations to the Class of 2024 who received their degrees from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in its 74th Commencement Ceremony held at the Mondavi Center on May 24th. Among those graduating were 145 DVM students, 31 residents and 17 students in the Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine program.
The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine celebrated its rich diversity with a two-week-long Diversity Week, packed with events, workshops, and discussions. Organized by students and faculty with the help of Chief Diversity Officer Monae Roberts and the Career, Leadership and Wellness Center, the extended week aimed to create a more inclusive environment and celebrate the school's varied student body.
During a lunch talk hosted by the UC Davis Chapter of Veterinarians as One Inclusive Community for Empowerment (VOICE) earlier this month, Gina Davis B.S. '95, DVM '97 shared her journey as an African American woman navigating the veterinary profession. She took attendees of the talk through her career journey, which started with her undergraduate studies and veterinary school at UC Davis, working in private practice, before returning to the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
Families, friends, faculty and staff gathered at the UC Davis Mondavi Center to welcome 152 new students into the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine Class of 2027 on August 18.
Congratulations to the Class of 2023 who received their degrees from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in its 73rd Commencement Ceremony held at the Mondavi Center on May 26th.
