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UC Davis ADVANCE Newsletter
January 2016

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ADVANCE Welcomes New Team Members

The UC Davis ADVANCE is pleased to welcome the following new members to our team:

Lisceth Brazil-Cruz, Postdoctoral Scholar

Lisceth Brazil-Cruz holds a doctoral degree in School Organization and Educational Policy from the University of California, Davis. Her research interests include educational and pipeline issues affecting disenfranchised, underserved and vulnerable student populations as well as issues of equity among communities of color. Her dissertation focused on understanding parental practices of Latino first generation college students as they transition from high school to college. To read more, click here.

Karen Nikos-Rose, Communications Coordinator

Karen is associate director of news and media relations, supervising public relations for the College of Letters and Science (divisions of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, and Social Sciences), Student Affairs and Admissions, and the schools of law and education as well as the Graduate School of Management. She also expands UC Davis’ presence in emerging media. To read more, click here.

Ivonne Santiago, External Advisory Board Member

Dr. Ivonne Santiago is a Clinical Professor of the Civil Engineering Department and a member of the Center for Inland Desalination Systems (CIDS) at University of Texas at El Paso. Dr. Santiago has a combined experience of over 20 years in the areas of water quality, water treatment and wastewater treatment in Puerto Rico (PR), New Mexico and Texas. She has worked as Director of the Water Quality Area of the PR Environmental Quality Board) as consultant, performing technical and compliance audits of water and waste treatment plants in PR); as an environmentally engaged citizen (on the EPA’s National Advisory Committee and the EPA’s Good Neighbor Environmental Board for the President and Congress of the US). To read more, click here.

Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, Internal Advisory Board Chair

Jennifer Sinclair Curtis is Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Davis. In her role as the Associate Dean for Research at the University of Florida, she supported faculty and researchers in developing and maintaining research programs, including promoting interdisciplinary research, working with research sponsors and funding agencies, coordinating the college’s research institutes and ensuring regulatory compliance. She also served as Director of the Florida Energy Systems Consortium, which promotes collaboration between Florida’s public universities to conduct research, education and commercialization in energy technology and as the Chair of Chemical Engineering. Before joining the College of Engineering at the University of Florida, she served as the Head of the Department of Freshman Engineering and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education at Purdue University. To read more, click here.

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CAMPOS Faculty Scholar Spotlight

Alexis Patterson
Assistant Professor of Elementary Science Education. Dr. Patterson studies the challenges facing those in the field of science education to reframe science learning in terms of diversity and access.​