Achievement

UC Davis invited CCWAS Trainee Michael Levy to speak on behalf of UC Davis graduate students at UC Day in Washington, DC. Levy, a first year graduate student in Ecology and recipient of the Ecological Society of America's Graduate Student Policy Award in 2011, met with congressional staffers and members of the US House of Representatives. He spoke to staff on the House Committee for Science, Space and Technology about the critical role of social and interdisciplinary science in advancing national priorities, and met with Congressman Ami Bera to emphasize the importance of IGERT in training a generation of scientists who can work across disciplines to solve the complex, multifaceted problems facing the country.