First year PhD student Laila Waddell wins prestigious Eugene Cota-Robles fellowship

We are thrilled to share that incoming PhD student Laila Waddell, who earned her BA from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in December 2024, has won the prestigious Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship. The Cota-Robles is named after one of the first Mexican-American professors in the UC system and provides full tuition and fees plus a living stipend for the first two years of a PhD. Laila plans to continue to research the intersection of environmental justice and urban planning in disenfranchised communities during her PhD in political science.