The Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship (PUF) supports undergraduate students doing research or creative projects under the guidance of UC Davis faculty members. Students from all discipline areas are eligible to apply. Past projects have involved laboratory research, field studies, survey research, film production, design and creation of art elements, music composition, fine arts performances, travel to library or research collections, and many other endeavors. Group projects are not appropriate, however, separate (but linked) projects may be considered. The maximum award is $1,800 toward approved costs directly related to the project.
PUF information sessions:
Friday, October 11, 2019, 12:10 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.,
Student Community Center Room E
Thursday, October 17, 2019, 11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.,
Student Community Center, Room 2300 (Upstairs - URC)
Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 2:10 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Student Community Center, Room 2300 (Upstairs - URC)
Have questions about your application? Contact us at urc@ucdavis.edu
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2019 SPRING PUF RECIPIENTS!
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences:
Annalise Gushue, Plant Science,
Building a Novel FRET Sensor for G Protein Signaling in Chemotaxis
Avalon Miller, Global Disease Biology
Characterizing Structure-Function of Plant Organ Growth Regulating Complex
Samuel Deck, Biotechnology
From Cancer Biology to Tomato Physiology: Mechanistic Characterization of DDA1-DDB1 Complex
Gautam Mathur, Environmental Science & Management
Effects of Changing Precipitation on Plant Traits in the Southwestern US
Jonas Grove, Biotechnology
Effect of CBF1 Silencing on Postharvest Chilling Injury in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)
Maria Gonzalez, Animal Biology
Evaluation of Three In-Vitro Platforms to Study Animal Gastrointestinal Function
College of Biological Sciences:
Siddhi Ganesh, Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior and Pyschology,
Qualitative Study Evaluating the Relationship Between Poverty and Substance Use in Sacramento Community
Jillian Dyer, Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity
The Effects of Nitrogen Deposition and Water Availability on Germination Rates and Fractions of Native and Invasive Seeds in Serpentine Grasslands
Vanessa Minie, Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior,
Reducing Stereotypic-Like Behaviors in Laboratory-Housed California Mice
Isabella Glenn, Molecular Biology
First Steps Towards Optimizing Plastic Biodegradation Pathways via PETase Enzyme
Savita Sastry, Microbiology
Improved Differentiation of Bifidobacterium Communities Using groEL Primers
Mackenzie Noon, Genetics and Genomics
A Potential method of Cancer Adaptation; Autophagy-mediated rDNA Contraction
Cindy Truong, Genetics and Genomics,
Phosphorylation of TIMELESS by CK2a kinase Regulates Light Response of Animal circadian Clock
Madeline Handy, Microbiology
A Study Regarding the Micobiome Structure in the Carpenter Bee X. varipuncta
Jayashri Viswanathan, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structure-Activity Relationship of Psychedelic Analogs
College of Engineering:
Andrew Ramirez, Chemical Engineering
Angiogenic Therapeutics for the Treatment of Peripheral Ischemia in Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Devi Jaykrishnana, Biomedical Engineering
Develop and Characterize a Platform Technology for Delivery of Drugs to the Brain
College of Letters and Science:
Jacob Lloveras, Cinema and Digital Media and Communication
The Cinema of You
Mira Milic, Pharmaceutical Chemistry
NMR Spectroscopy as a Tool to Quantify Hydrogen-Bond Accepting Ability
Teja Dusanapudi, English
The Harmonies of Nature: Wallace Stevens and Poetry as Conservation Ecology
Haleigh Miller, Math and Scientific Computation,
A Study Comparing Bayesian Species Tree Inference Methods by Simulation
Ellen Chu, Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Exploring the Target Recognition Mechanism of MutY using 2-Br-8-oxo-2’-deoxyinosine oligonucleotide Analogs
Anthony Lagunda, Psychology
Investigating the Effect of Semantic Meaning on Overt and Covert Spatial Attention
Ignacio Segura, Music
A New Light: A Trek Through Dante’s Inferno