The C. J. Goodwin Award of Merit Committee is delighted to announce the three recipients of the 2024 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit. The Goodwin Awards honor outstanding contributions to classical scholarship by members of the Society. This year’s awardees includes UC Davis Classics faculty member Colin Webster. His full award citation is below.
The University of California, Davis, is third in the nation among public universities and 12th among all universities for how well it sets its graduates up for financial success in the WSJ/College Pulse rankings released today (Sept. 5, 2024).
What was your major? Why did you choose it? I majored in classical civilizations and chose Latin as my language focus. I came to UC Davis as an undeclared humanities major and planned to attend law school. At orientation, I met with an academic advisor who suggested I major in anything I thought I could get good grades. I am forever thankful she did not simply encourage me to pursue political science. In my first quarter, I enrolled in Major Works of the Ancient World (COM 001), which whet my appetite for antiquity.
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.
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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.
The Classics Department held our End of Year Celebration this weekend to honor our graduating Seniors and Post-Bacs, award recipients, and to celebrate the achievements of all our students. Congratulations to everyone!
Graduating Undergraduates:
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
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.
Timothy Brelinski, a Continuing Lecturer in the Classics Department, was selected as the winner of the 2023 Academic Federation Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. According to Dateline,"he is recognized for excellence in teaching and continued curricular innovation of classics courses that are taken by approximately 15% of UC Davis undergra
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.
