By Lisa Howard January 18, 2017 UC Davis announced today its receipt of $2.2 million in one-time funding from Assembly Bill 2664, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Expansion bill authored by... Read More
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At 27 Years Old, MNRC Remains One of “Newest” Nuclear Reactors in U.S., But Industry May be Waking Up
Aj Cheline
January 17, 2017
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By Lisa Howard January 17, 2017 On January 20, 1990, when the nuclear reactor at McClellan Air Force Base achieved its first sustained nuclear reaction known as “criticality,” it was... Read More
Winter 2017 Issue
Aj Cheline
January 1, 2017
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Research Matters Quarterly Newsletter Winter 2017... Read More
High-Severity Wildfires Complicate Natural Regeneration for California Conifers
Aj Cheline
December 21, 2016
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By Kat Kerlin December 21, 2016 A study spanning 10 national forests and 14 burned areas in California found that conifer seedlings were found in less than 60 percent of... Read More
Cow Gene Study Shows Why Most Clones Fail
Aj Cheline
December 9, 2016
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Gene Expression Pinpoints Multiple Anomalies Likely to Lead to Pregnancy Failure for Clones It has been 20 years since Dolly the sheep was successfully cloned in Scotland, but cloning mammals... Read More
Can Ben Houlton Help UC Davis Solve Climate Change?
Aj Cheline
November 23, 2016
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By Lisa Howard November 23, 2016 Ben Houlton hasn’t quite settled into his office in The Barn. The new director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment took over... Read More
UC Davis and BASF Announce Collaboration on Development of New Microencapsulation Technology
Aj Cheline
November 7, 2016
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FLORHAM PARK, NJ and DAVIS, CA, November 2, 2016 – BASF and University of California, Davis (UC Davis) entered into a collaborative research agreement to investigate a patent- pending microencapsulation... Read More
UC Davis Receives $760 Million in Sponsored Research Funding
Aj Cheline
October 31, 2016
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The University of California, Davis, received $760 million in external research funding for fiscal year 2015-16, down slightly from last year’s all-time high of $786 million. UC Davis was fourth... Read More
How a ‘Nonsense’ Genetic Mutation from a Bull Born in 1962 Caused the Loss of Half a Million Calves Worldwide
Aj Cheline
October 10, 2016
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By Lisa Howard Pawnee Farm Arlinda Chief was one of the most prolific bulls in the history of Holstein cattle breeding — but he also introduced a lethal gene... Read More
Cameron Carter named Interim Vice Chancellor for Research
Aj Cheline
October 5, 2016
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AJ Cheline October 5, 2016 Cameron Carter — a professor in the UC Davis Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the director of two UC Davis research centers — has been named the interim vice chancellor for the Office of... Read More