This column offers a sampling of honors recently awarded to UC Davis faculty, staff and units:

Chemistry professor Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague has been named as one of the inaugural class of American Chemistry Society Fellows. The 162 fellows, including teachers, academics, industrial and government scientists and entrepreneurs, share “a common set of accomplishments, namely true excellence in their contributions to the chemical enterprise, coupled with distinctive service to ACS or to the broader world of chemistry,” according to the society.

Cruz Reynoso, law professor emeritus recently received the State Bar of California’s Bernard E. Witkin Medal to honor his “significant contributions to the quality of justice and legal scholarship” in the state. Established in 1993, the award honors “those legal giants who have altered the landscape of California jurisprudence.”

Noriko Satake, assistant professor of pediatric hematology and oncology at UC Davis Cancer Center, has been named a 2009 Hyundai Scholar, and will receive $30,000 in funds to support her research into the characterization of leukemia stem cells in childhood leukemia.