Dr. Bisson is a Professor Emeritus and Geneticist in the
Agricultural Experiment Station in the Department of Viticulture
and Enology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences. She leads the UC Davis ADVANCE Program as Faculty
Director and provides daily project leadership and management in
addition to serving as a co-chair to the Policy and
Practices Committee of the ADVANCE program on the Davis campus.
She served for several years on the CAP Oversight and Appellate
Committees, chairing both.
Jeanne Darby is nationally recognized for innovations in
engineering education and her research on UV disinfection has
been seminal with regard to the critical factors controlling the
disinfection process. Darby was awarded the first UC Davis
College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award and the
National Society of Professional Engineers Engineering Education
Excellence Award. She was also a founding member of the Center
for Women in Engineering at UC Davis and has been instrumental in
revising the environmental engineering curriculum.
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.
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.
JoAnne Engebrecht is a Professor of Molecular and Cellular
Biology at UC Davis. Dr. Engebrecht studies meiosis and
checkpoint function in the C. elegans germ line. Dr.
Engebrecht specifically investigates how checkpoint pathways are
differentially regulated in the female and male germ line; how
unpaired sex chromosomes of the heterogametic sex repair double
strand breaks and are hidden from the checkpoint machinery; and
how different checkpoint pathways interact to ensure the faithful
transmission of the genome.
Carol Erickson is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular and
Cellular Biology at UC Davis. Dr. Erickson’s research focuses on
the development of the avian trunk neural crest, with a
particular interested in the mechanisms that segregate the neural
crest lineage from the neural epithelium, the mechanisms that
guide specific neural crest lineages along different migratory
pathways, and the control of neural crest cell differentiation.
Dr. Joseph has been a
faculty at the University of California, Davis since 1976 where
she is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Women’s
Studies, and Faculty Assistant to the Chancellor. She is
founding Director of the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program
at UC Davis and was awarded the UC Davis Prize – the
largest undergraduate teaching andresearch prize in the United
States. Most of her anthropological field research has focused on
her native Lebanon.
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.
Susan Rivera is Professor of Psychology and Research Professor at
the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. Dr. Rivera conducts
research on the origins and development of symbolic
representation in both infants and children. She uses classic
behavioral as well as neuroimaging techniques to investigate such
things as the development of dorsal versus ventral visual
processing, object representation, numerical cognition and
affective processing.
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.
Kimberlee Shauman is a Professor of Sociology at the University
of California, Davis. Her main areas of interest are social
stratification, family and kinship, demography, sociology of
education, and quantitative methodology. Her research
focuses on gender differences in educational and occupational
trajectories with particular attention to the causal effects of
family characteristics. Her book, Women in Science:
Career Processes and Outcomes (co-authored with Yu Xie),
examines the underrepresentation of women in science from a life
course perspective.
Binnie Singh is the Assistant Vice Provost, in the Office of the
Vice Provost, Academic Affairs. In this role, she serves as the
primary liaison between Academic Affairs and other units and
organizations, both campus and systemwide, and assists the Vice
Provost – Academic Affairs in strategic planning, implementation
and innovation for all matters affecting academic personnel at UC
Davis. Prior to this role, she served for over 10 years as the
Director of Faculty Relations and Development in Academic Affairs
consulting with campus leaders on resolving conflicts that
involve academic employees, mediates and settles formal
complaints and grievances, coordinates and delivers
development/training programs for faculty, especially department
chairs and new faculty, manages faculty medical leaves and issues
related to accommodations, and administers the Work Life Program
for academics.
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.
