Amy Parkhurst is awarded the Jastro-Sheilds Award. (Sept 2025)
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Amy Parkhurst is awarded the American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship. (July 2025)
Amy Parkhurst’s micro-plastics research receives press coverage after the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) conference.
AAAS: Not-so-tasty: Plastic particles found in food could harm the body
Science News: A diet full of tiny plastics triggered health problems in mice
Amy Parkhurst wins the Emerging Leaders Competition in the category Climate, Food Systems, Diet, Nutrition and Health at the American Society for Nutrition Conference. (June 2025)
Professor Fawaz Haj moderated a panel on precision medicine for chronic metabolic diseases as part of a workshop series highlighting the innovative research between the U.S. and Kuwait. This conference took place in Kuwait from February 2-3. (Feb 2025)
Grace LeBleu is awarded the 2025 Rucker Family Fellowship Award. The Rucker Family Fellowship was established by Bob and Margaret Rucker to support graduate students conducting research in nutritional biochemistry within the Nutritional Biology Graduate Group. This fellowship is awarded in recognition of your outstanding academic record and promise of productive scholarship.
Grace LeBleu is awarded the Jastro-Shields Research Award, November 2024.
Grace LeBleu is selected for the 2025 Innovator Fellowship offered by the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health. For six months, Grace will be working with Better Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage start-up companies with a focus area of sustainability, agriculture, food, and health.
Grace LeBleu is awarded 2nd place for her oral presentation titled “Interactome of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases and Their Putative Substrates Reveals Novel Signaling Networks in Podocytes” at the 11th annual GGNB Student Research Symposium (Nov 2024).
Grace LeBleu is selected for UC Davis Biotechnology Program’s DEB Research Award, June 2024. This award recognizes and supports Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology (DEB) doctoral students who have demonstrated interest in and ability to carry out research projects in the following areas:
- Human and Animal Health
- Plants, Insects and Microbes
- Platform Technologies
- Cellular Agriculture
Grace was awarded for the Human and Animal Health domain, which is selective for a project that will expand our understanding of human and/or animal health and wellness, leading to novel technologies or improvements in our ability to prevent, diagnose and/or treat diseases and/or genetic disorders.