The Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Science (CAMPOS) is happy to award two additional CAMPOS Faculty Scholars: Alexis Patterson, Assistant Professor of Elementary Science Education, and Natalia Caporale, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior!

CAMPOS Faculty Scholars are exceptional scientists in a STEM discipline. They are selected for their transformative thinking, unique perspectives, interdisciplinary approaches, and leadership potential to impact their STEM discipline in profound and enduring ways. Their discoveries, innovations, and technological breakthroughs will contribute to the public good, locally, nationally, and globally. A CAMPOS Faculty Scholar is a role model for future scientists and scholars who share their vision of diversity and inclusion, as key components of the Academy in the 21st Century. 

CAMPOS Faculty Scholars:

1. Jacqueline Barlow, Assistant Professor Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. Dr. Barlow is a biologist who studies the etiology of DNA damage and mechanisms for its repair.

2. Natalia Caporale, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior. Dr. Caporale studies active learning strategies and new technologies to increase teaching effectiveness in large enrollment lecture courses; the role of metacognition in the learning process; and the identification of instructional elements that can increase student retention in STEM disciplines, particularly among transfer students, minorities and first generation students.

3. Magdalena Cerda, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Violence Prevention Research Program. Dr. Cerda is a social epidemiologist who addresses the social and structural determinants of health, including such important problems as violence, substance abuse, and mental illness.

4. Lillian Cruz-Orengo, Assistant Professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology. Dr. Cruz-Orengo studies rodent models of neurological disorders, including trauma, chronic pain, and inflammatory-induced neurodegeneration.

5. Fernanda Ferreira, Professor of Psychology. Dr. Ferreira studies psycholinguistics to uncover the mechanisms that enable humans to understand and generate language in real time and in cooperation with other cognitive systems.

6. Anna La Torre Vila, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy. Dr. La Torre Vila combines molecular and cellular biology, stem cells, and mouse studies to study neuronal development.

7. 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.

8. Cindy Rubio Gonzalez, Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Dr. Rubio Gonzalez is a software engineer who focuses on developing and applying program-analysis techniques to make software more reliable.

9. Mariel Vazquez, Professor of Mathematics and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. Dr. Vazquez is a mathematical biologist with a specialization in the applications of topology to the study of DNA.

​For additional information about the CAMPOS Faculty Scholar program, please visit: http://ucd-advance.ucdavis.edu/campos.