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DAVIS, Calif. -- Tiger Garcia, a 2020 UC Davis graduate in managerial economics and a former team captain for the football team, earned a grant from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to attend the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He is the third Aggie student-athlete in as many years to earn such honors, following soccer player Wallis Lapsley and field hockey player Beth Lee.

Two UC Davis students have been awarded prestigious Marshall Scholarships in a decades-old British government program that pays for American students to pursue advanced degrees at British universities. Read the full article.

Literary scholarship at the nexus of human rights and climate change has earned English major Jumana Esau ’20 a prestigious Gates Cambridge scholarship. The scholarship will fully fund Esau to earn her Master of Philosophy in Criticism and Culture at the University of Cambridge, where she plans to study climate fiction with the author Robert Macfarlane. Building on her undergraduate thesis, her research will focus on climate narratives written from the perspective of marginalized communities and developing countries.