The GDB office is pleased to announce that Anjolie Doan, one of our own GDB students, is the laureate of the Charles Hess Community Service Award for 2025.

According to the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the Charles Hess Community Awards recognize students who have demonstrated outstanding public or community service.

The criteria for selection is:

• Graduating Senior with good scholarship and the most noteworthy record of public/community service while at UC Davis

• Demonstrated expertise in and an interest in serving humanity

• Volunteer from the College and University and in their community

• A record of academic excellence

Anjolie’s community service and accomplishments span a wide range of disciplines and interests. She serves as board member in the VN CARES student run clinic, which provides free cancer screening to Vietnamese people, an underserved demographic in cancer prevention. She also serves as Patient Assistance Program Co-Director where she assists in managing medication costs while maintaining accessibility and equity to these life saving medicines. Anjolie also helped to start UC Davis’ chapter of the American Lung Cancer Screening Initiative, where she collaborated with UC Davis Health to organize the first White Ribbon Relay to promote community awareness for lung cancer. Her practicum project centered on the biochemistry of lung cancer progression, with the aim to find novel therapeutic biomarker targets. To learn more, check out this project’s spotlight on Practicum Pods.

In addition to medicine, Anjolie is a volunteer tutor for both Project Catalyst and for adult ESL learners. More specifically, these include teaching elementary students STEM concepts and helping English learners in workforce development, respectively. A fun fact about Anjolie: she loves creating ceramic pieces and competing in long-distance running races in her free time.

We are extremely proud to have Anjolie as part of the GDB community and wish her the best as she graduates UC Davis!