Leadership Team

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ADVANCE Leadership Team

The ADVANCE Leadership Team provides leadership and oversight for the entire ADVANCE program. The team is led by Chancellor Emerita Linda P. B. Katehi, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Gender Studies. Programmatic direction and key decisions are made in consultation with Faculty Director Linda Bisson, and the UC Davis ADVANCE Management Team.

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Adela de la Torre
UC Davis ADVANCE Co-Principal Investigator, Social Sciences Research Initiative Co-Director, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Campus Diversity, and Professor of Chicana/o Studies

Adela de la Torre, an agricultural economist, is a professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department and director of the Center for Transnational Health at UC Davis. Dr. de la Torre’s publications and research primarily focus on social determinants of Chicano/Latino health issues, including border and binational health. In addition, her recent NIH funded work includes targeting English Language Learning student science educational disparities and developing university- and school-based partnerships to tackle this growing educational divide.

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Linda P. B. Katehi
UC Davis ADVANCE Principal Investigator, Chancellor Emerita, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Administrative Service

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Karen McDonald
UC Davis ADVANCE Co-Principal Investigator, Professor of Chemical Engineering

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.

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Raymond Rodriguez
UC Davis ADVANCE Co-Principal Investigator, UC Davis ADVANCE CAMPOS Initiative Committee Member, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

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.

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Maureen Stanton
UC Davis ADVANCE Co-Principal Investigator, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Evolution and Ecology

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.