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.
What Can I Do with My Major? The Languages and Literatures Edition
Watch our recorded presentation from the Internship and Career Center of career exploration and planning while enjoying your major and courses in Languages and Literatures! See how our humanities majors give you transferable, technical and personal traits to help you in your future career!
U.S. News Rankings Highlight Social Mobility Campus Provides
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!
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.
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.
Fall 2022 is here! Welcome back and to our incoming class of students. Your Undergrad Advising team is excited to see you, whether in person or via remote appointments. Please make an appointment from this link: https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/?office=39; or use our drop in advising Tuesday afternoon or Friday morning from this link: https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/?office=39
Welcome back and to Fall quarter. The Advising team is excited for another great year. We are now able to offer virtual drop-in advising. Please visit this link, https://langlit.advisingfrontdesk.lsit.ucdavis.edu/signin, on Tuesday’s from 1:30-3pm or Friday 9-11am. We are looking forward to assisting you with your advising needs.
