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PPFP celebrates 40th anniversary
UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is hailed as a national model for faculty development. A program launched four decades ago to increase access to faculty careers at the University of California has today grown into the largest and most influential academic pipeline program of its kind in the nation. More than 400 faculty across the UC system have participated in the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
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Wen Public Health receives $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Assistant professor of Environmental & Occupational Health at the UC Irvine, Dr. Nicole Sparks, PhD, has been awarded a prestigious $1.9 million Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to investigate epigenetics. Sparks says, “The R35 provides stable, long-term funding so that my lab can take risks, explore new directions, and follow the science wherever it leads. That flexibility is essential for understanding something as complex as how a single cell becomes a whole human body.”
Breaking Queer Silences, Building Queer Archives, and Claiming Queer Indigenous P’urhépecha Methodologies
The article, “Breaking Queer Silences, Building Queer Archives, and Claiming Queer Indigenous P’urhépecha Methodologies,” published in Genealogy Journal, discusses the research of Dr. Mario Gómez Zamora, PhD, on queer Indigenous P’urhépecha histories in Michoacán, México, by claiming queer P’urhépecha research methods. The article was awarded the Most Thought-Provoking Article by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA).
Defining the cell and molecular origins of the primate ovarian reserve
The paper, “Defining the cell and molecular origins of the primate ovarian reserve,” published in Nature Communications, discusses the research of Dr. Sissy Wamaitha, PhD, on the evolutionary proximity of the rhesus macaque to investigate follicle formation in primates.
Racialized Guatemalan Migrant Labor and Grassroots Civil Societies Across the Greater Los Angeles Region
The article, "Racialized Guatemalan Migrant Labor and Grassroots Civil Societies Across the Greater Los Angeles Region," published by the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (JREP) through Cambridge University Press written by Dr. Julio Orellana, PhD, argues that neoliberal capitalism not only provokes the displacement of Guatemalan migrants as a social class of people from multiple racial and ethnic backgrounds, but it has also contributed to the emergence of distinct political Guatemalan diaspora organizations in the U.S. at the community, national, and transnational level.
47 postdoctoral scholars have been nominated to receive the Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research
Dr. Bernard Gordillo, PhD, was nominated for a 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research at UCLA. The Chancellor’s Awards for Postdoctoral Research, recognizes individual research accomplishments that show clear potential to have meaningful and enduring implications in their field. This event also recognizes the contributions of faculty mentors through the Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Awards, administered by the Postdoctoral Association at UCLA. The Mentoring Awards honor UCLA faculty members who have gone above and beyond the call of duty in helping postdoctoral scholars develop successful careers.