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Why did you choose to major in classics?
I chose classics after taking CLA003 with the late Professor Stem. I had so much fun learning about ancient Rome that I took the follow-up course, CLA004, and also had a great time learning about late antiquity. After my first year, it became clear that I wanted to study classics.

Nota Bene is the Journal of Classical Studies at the University of California, Davis. It is a publication of the Classical Studies Association (CSA) at UC Davis.

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by Julia Ann Easley, September 17, 2023

The University of California, Davis, rose to tie for sixth place among the nation’s top public universities in rankings published today (Sept. 17) by U.S. News & World Report.

The 2024 Best Colleges rankings moved UC Davis up four places from last year among public universities and up 10 places to tie for No. 28 among all national universities.

Classics faculty member Kathleen Cruz has been named one of the twenty new Career Enhancement Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year by The Institute for Citizens & Scholars.

Kendahl Alexis

Awni Kirstin Allie Cauthorn

Nestor Adalberto Cruz

Andrew Harrison Haley*

Fani Nkaujfuab Herr

Patrick Stephen Mckinley

Yutao Qian

Rachel Ann Roddy*

Ali Isabella Soto

*Graduating with Honors

Colin Webster has been awarded a Mellon New Directions Fellowship for 2023–2024, with a project entitled Empire and Intercultural Medicine: A Paleobotanical Approach to Ancient Healing. With this fellowship, Dr. Webster will retrain in plant sciences, taking courses in botany, plant genetics, and ethnobotany to help him investigate ancient healing practices more expansively than his philological training will allow. There are many intimations that medicine in the ancient world was an intercultural affair.

Welcome to Spring Quarter 2023! The undergrad advising team is here for any advising needs, make an appointment, https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/, we’re happy to help and connect you to any campus resources!  We continue to have drop-in advising Tuesdays from 1:30-3pm, https://langlit.stage.advisingfrontdesk.lsit.ucdavis.edu/signin.

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The members of the University of California UAW—the union that represents tens of thousands of postdocs, academic researchers, graduate student researchers, trainees, fellows, graduate student instructors, readers, and tutors—have been negotiating for a contract with the University since spring 2021. Recently, they voted overwhelmingly to strike on November 14.