UC Davis Native American studies professor receives Mellon Foundation Fellowship

(University of California - Davis) Liza Grandia, associate professor of Native American studies at the University of California, Davis, has received a $270,000 Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship. The fellowship will allow her to study toxicology and environmental epidemiology to become "a more productive interlocutor" between indigenous communities and the environmental health sciences. Grandia's own battle with lymphoma nine years ago, which she believes may have been triggered by her ...