Higher ed cuts will hurt farming, too
Following a visit to the editorial board of the Bakersfield Californian by UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi and Neal Van Alfen, dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the...
View ArticleHunting linked to lead in birds
Two new UC Davis studies add scientific evidence that hunters’ lead ammunition often finds its way into carrion-eating birds, such as eagles and turkey vultures.These scavenger species often take...
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Bizarre ‘traffic cone’ life in an Antarctic Lake
In an upcoming issue of the journal Geobiology, UC Davis geologist Dawn Sumner, Dale Andersen of the SETI Institute and colleagues will describe strange and unique life forms under the ice of Lake...
View ArticleA simpler route to splitting water?
The key to the hydrogen economy could come from a common mineral better known as a black stain on rock, according to researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and UC Davis, and published...
View ArticleSymposia: Soap, health and the environment; and bugs, babies and breastmilk
The potential downsides of fragrances in personal care products, and microbes, milk and the infant gut, and will be the topics of two student-run symposia at UC Davis in September. Both events,...
View ArticleAncient climate expert joins AAAS panel on climate mitigation
UC Davis geoscientist Isabel Montañez will take part in a symposium on how to stabilize global CO2 levels at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver...
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New Frog species found in exotic habitat…New York
It’s not every day that science adds a new vertebrate species, and you might think the likely place to find undiscovered animals would be a remote rainforest or island. But researchers from UC, Rutgers...
View ArticleTalk: Forecasting to prevent the next viral storm
Nathan Wolfe, Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University and Director of the Global Viral Forecasting Network Initiative will give a public talk at UC Davis on May 24,...
View ArticleVideo: Wildfires becoming hotter, faster and more frequent as climate changes
From Colorado’s record-breaking Waldo Canyon fire to blazes burning across California, Washington and western rangelands, the summer of 2012 — like many recent summers — has been marked by a long,...
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UC Davis, Lawrence Berkeley Lab forge closer ties
UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi and LBL Director Paul Alivasatos signing the agreement formalizing joint appointments.. Contributed by Emma Estrella and Sharon Ruth, Office of Research “A small galaxy...
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BGI President Yang: “Let’s collaborate” on century of life science
Big numbers — of DNA base pairs sequenced, numbers of genomes completed, volumes of data collected and dollars invested — were in the air Nov. 9 when Dr. Huanming (Henry) Yang, president and cofounder...
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Tour campus museums on Super Science Saturday, Feb. 2
The day before Super Bowl Sunday, take an afternoon for some super science museums. UC Davis’s second annual Biodiversity Museum Day will take place Saturday, February 2, from 1 to 4 pm. The event is...
View ArticleTest for hormone-disrupting chemicals gets global seal of approval
A test for hormone-disrupting pollutants, originally developed at the University of California, Davis, has been approved as an international standard by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and...
View ArticleGeospatial consulting offers technical mapping services on campus
Newly launched on campus: Geospatial Consulting @ UC Davis is available to help the UC Davis researchers with geospatial questions and projects. Like the services provided by the Statistical Laboratory...
View ArticleHumboldt Award for work on past and future climate change
Professor Howard Spero, chair of the Department of Geology, has received a Humboldt research award from the German government. Spero will use the award of 60,000 Euros (about $78,000) towards a...
View ArticleAct now to avoid irreversible climate tipping point, scientists urge
By Kat Kerlin Five UC Davis faculty members joined more than 500 top global change scientists in signing a statement that outlines the key environmental issues – from climate change to pollution and...
View ArticleBGI, UC Davis to host international genomics conference this Fall
The cutting-edge role of genomics — large-scale sequencing and analysis of DNA — in medicine, agriculture and science will be the topics of the Second International Conference on Genomics in the...
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Center to clear the air on aerosols’ climate change impact
In some ways, aerosols are the new CO2. Carbon dioxide has earned enormous attention from scientists and the general public regarding its role in climate change. But aerosols – those tiny particles...
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New natural mosquito repellent discovered
A southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, after lunch. Two recent papers by Professor Walter Leal, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology could have far-reaching consequences for both mosquito...
View ArticleUC Davis work leads to FDA action on antibacterial soaps
On Dec. 16, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration called on manufacturers of antibacterial soaps to demonstrate that the anti-microbial agents have added benefit over washing with soap and water, and...
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