CAMPOS has transitioned to the Office for Diversity, Equity,
and Inclusion. We are so appreciative of the below
members for their contributions while serving on the ADVANCE
CAMPOS Committee, Please note this page is no longer
updated and biographical information of committee members may no
longer be accurate.
Mary Lou de Leon Siantz is a professor at the Betty Irene Moore
School of Nursing at UC Davis. She is nationally recognized for
her interdisciplinary efforts to prepare health professionals for
leadership and policy, and internationally respected for her
research in migrant health.
David Acosta, M.D. is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity
and Inclusion, and the Chief Diversity Officer for the UC Davis
Health System (UCDHS). He is a Clinical Professor in the Health
Sciences, Board-Certified in Family Medicine, and completed his
medical education and residency training at UC Irvine and UC San
Francisco. His extensive work experience spans the pipeline
continuum working with URM pre-health students to faculty, and
includes holding leadership positions in rural community health
centers, residency and fellowship programs, diversity affairs and
admissions. His teaching focuses on cultural competency and
Hispanic health.
Nina Amenta is Professor and Department Chair of Computer
Science at UC Davis and is Director of the Institute for Data
Analysis and Visualization at UC Davis. She works in
computational geometry, using discrete geometry to develop
algorithms for problems in areas like computer graphics and
simulation. Her recent research has focused on interpreting LiDAR
data from forests and analysis techniques for collections of
biological shapes like bones or cortical surfaces.
Dr. Denneal Jamison-McClung earned her PhD in Genetics with a
Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology from UC Davis in
2003. During the UC Davis ADVANCE award period, she
contributed to the management team as program coordinator,
including strategic communications, operationalizing project
plans, recruitment and management of personnel, NSF reporting and
sustainability planning. She continues to serve as a member of
the CAMPOS Initiative Committee and on special projects to
promote diversity and inclusion in STEM.
Susan Kauzlarich is Professor and Chair of Chemistry at UC Davis.
Her research interests include synthesis of novel inorganic
solids, inorganic nanomaterials for energy applications. In
particular, applications of Zintl formalism to the search for new
materials with useful properties. Specialties include:
thermoelectric materials, nanoparticles for photovoltaic and
optoelectrontic applications, nanoparticles as biological probes
and for drug delivery.
Dr. Karen McDonald is a Co-Principal Investigator of the UC Davis
ADVANCE Program and Professor in the Department of Chemical
Engineering and served as Associate Dean for Research and
Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering at UC Davis for 13
years prior to joining the UC Davis ADVANCE program. In addition,
Dr.
Julie Sutcliffe’s research involves the design, synthesis and in
vivo evaluation of targeted molecular imaging agents with a focus
on positron emission tomography (PET). Her group has developed
rapid radiolabeling technologies using both solid-phase and
solution-phase chemistries to incorporate the short half-life PET
radionuclide fluorine-18 into peptides. Peptide based
radiopharmaceuticals are gaining extensive attention as targeted
molecular imaging agents.
Kyaw Tha Paw U is a Professor of Atmospheric Science and
Biometeorologist in the Agricultural Experiment Station, at the
University of California, Davis Department of Land, Air and Water
Resources. His research and teaching activities have been
recognized by international awards. His team of students and
other colleagues studies the turbulent exchange of trace gases,
heat, radiation, and momentum between vegetation and the
atmosphere. The team uses advanced computer simulations and field
experiments to determine plant ecosystem carbon uptake, water
transpiration, methane and nitrous oxide release, the fluid
physics of turbulent air flow, and the effects of vegetation on
regional scale weather. He and his students teach
atmospheric science and plant biology courses.
Kent Pinkerton holds joint appointments in the School of Medicine
and School of Veterinary Medicine, and Director of the Center for
Health and the Environment. He studies the health effects of
environmental air pollutants on lung structure and function and
the interaction of gases and airborne particles within specific
sites and cell populations of the lungs in acute and chronic lung
injury. He also researches the effects of environmental tobacco
smoke on lung growth and development.
Raymond Rodriguez is a Professor in the Department of Molecular &
Cellular Biology and is currently Director of the NIH-sponsored
Center of Excellence for Nutritional Genomics at UC Davis. After
receiving his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Cruz
in 1974, he was an A.P. Giannini Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
in the laboratory of Herbert W. Boyer at UC San Francisco Medical
Center. While at UCSF, Dr. Rodriguez developed molecular cloning
technologies that now serve as the foundation for the
biotechnology industry.
Maureen Stanton is Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and
Professor of Evolution and Ecology.VP Stanton served as Chair of
the Department of Evolution and Ecology (2005-2011), is a member
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received
numerous awards for her research and teaching, including the UC
Davis Prize for Teaching and Scholarly Achievement (2005).
She has also served as the Vice-President of the American Society
of Naturalists (2001), a Senior Advisor for the National
Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), and is a fellow of the
California Academy of Sciences.
