Pam Gill-Fisher’s peers in women’s athletics administration are giving her a lifetime achievement award.

The retired senior associate athletics director is due to receive the prestigious honor on Monday (Oct. 14) in San Diego during the annual convention of the National Association of Collegiate Women’s Athletics Administrators.

Honorees are nominated by their peers and selected by past recipients of the award. 

Gill-Fisher’s association with UC Davis covers more than 40 years as an accomplished five-sport student-athlete, successful basketball and tennis coach who earned a national championship, and devoted member of both the athletics administration and campus faculty. She also served as UC Davis athletics’ senior woman administrator.

“Pam was a champion for women's athletics but was committed to all student-athletes,” said Terry Tumey, director of athletics. “Our program is where it is today in large part because of Pam’s leadership both on campus and on a national basis. She has also been a model and mentor for many other women administrators across the country.”

Read the athletics department news release.

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David Campbell, a Cooperative Extension specialist in community studies, Department of Human Ecology, has received an award for an article he wrote for Public Administration Review.

The American Society for Public Administration considered articles that appeared in its journal in the last year and chose Campbell’s “Managers in Integrated Services Collaboratives: What Works is Workarounds” as the best by an academician — earning him the William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award.

The award presentation came during the society’s annual meeting, held recently in New Orleans.

Campbell is a political scientist whose work seeks to deepen the practice of democratic citizenship in California communities. Taking community planning and service delivery systems as the unit of analysis, his research illuminates the policy dynamics and collaborative mechanisms that shape local implementation of federal, state and foundation programs.

Campbell joined UC Davis in 1990 and has been a Cooperative Extension specialist since 2000.

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Lovell “Tu” Jarvis, professor of agricultural and resource economics, and special assistant to the dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has been named chair of the Chile California Council.

The Chilean government established the nonprofit organization three years ago to advance joint ventures and cooperative relations between Chile and California. The council is based in San Francisco.

Jarvis conducts research on agricultural and environmental issues in developing countries, and he is founding director of the UC Davis Blum Center for Developing Economies.

He has written extensively on the historical development of Chile's agricultural sector, including the effect of its land and economic reforms, technical change in the fruit sector and the functioning of its agricultural labor markets.

Jarvis formerly served as divisional associate dean for human sciences in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

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Mike Davis, a Cooperative Extension specialist and professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, has been named a fellow of the the American Phytopathological Society for significant contributions to the science of plant pathology.

Davis came to UC Davis in 1986 and has focused his research on diseases of citrus, vegetables and field crops, and practical applications of disease management measures.

He has also conducted research on edible mushroom production and disease management of mushrooms. He is the primary author of the Field Guide to Mushrooms of Western North America.

The society honored Davis and 10 other new fellows at the society’s annual meeting, held in August in Austin, Texas.

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Takayuki Shibamoto, a professor of environmental toxicology, is the recipient of the American Chemical Society’s 2013 award for the advancement of the application of agricultural and food chemistry.

Presentation of the award, from the ACS Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, came during the ACS annual meeting, held in September in Indianapolis.

Shibamoto earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in agricultural chemistry in 1972 and ’74, and his research and teaching career has focused on food toxicology and flavor chemistry.

He has developed sensitive and selective gas chromatographic methods for analyzing and monitoring trace amounts of certain toxic compounds. He also has studied antioxidative properties of components of natural plants. The antioxidative activities of aroma chemicals play an important roll in giving desirable odors to foods and beverages.

His research also has examined how certain browning and cooking processes could result in chemical changes in food that might be detrimental to human health.

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