Impacts of Giving

Hope is a powerful emotion –– it can get us through tough times, it can help us persevere trials and tribulations until we reach our goal. Third-year mechanical engineering student Martin Vega-Martinez ‘20 is the perfect embodiment of what hope, combined with hard work, looks like.

By: Tess Steinberger

From Puerto Rico to Iraq to UC Berkeley and now at UC Davis, Oscar Vazquez ’20 finds his passion for the brain everywhere he goes. Now, he is leading meaningful work by researching traumatic brain injuries at UC Davis School of Medicine, where he received the 2016 Sandra Reed Scholarship and the 2017 Dean’s Scholarship.

University of California, Davis, donors Earl and Linda Ault say they had no idea what they were doing when they started their winery.

By Kat Kerlin

In 2018, the southern resident killer whale population in the Pacific Northwest’s Salish Sea was at its lowest ever. The world watched in September as an orca named Scarlet, or J50, wasted away and died, leaving just 74 of her kind left. Some wondered if this was “What extinction looks like.”

Idele Gilbert, known as the “bird whisperer" by her friends, enjoys a special bond with her parakeet, Jesse. She describes him as the smartest avian companion she has had. A quick learner, Jesse began to talk with just one week of training and to twirl around on his perch after watching a dancing show on television.

Barbara Jackson, a well-known patron of the arts and one of UC Davis’ most loyal and generous friends, died Friday evening, September 7th, in Davis. She was 99 years old.

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