Entries by Aj Cheline
UC Davis Health awarded $3.8M to explore Alzheimer’s Disease in Hispanic Cohorts
By Nadine A. Yehya August 14, 2019 (SACRAMENTO) —A team of researchers lead by Brittany Dugger of UC Davis Health has been awarded a $3.8 million grant from the National Institute for Aging (NIA) to help define the neuropathology of Alzheimer’s disease in Hispanic cohorts. The five-year grant will fund the first large-scale initiative to […]
Research Inspired by ‘Water Bears’ Leads to Innovations in Medicine, Food Preservation and Blood Storage
By Lisa Howard August 5, 2019 When John Crowe and his wife Lois Crowe were researching tardigrades in the 1970s and 1980s, nobody knew much about how the speck-sized organisms — also known as water bears — were able to dry up completely, survive for years, and then somehow revive within a few hours when […]
Research Core Facilities Program Invests $775,000 in New Equipment and Strategic Operating Expansions to Advance Research Infrastructure
By AJ Cheline August 5, 2019 In February 2019, the Research Core Facilities Program (RCFP) within the Office of Research invited proposal submissions for investments to support the acquisition of new equipment and strategic operational expansions of core facilities that would advance the research infrastructure at UC Davis. Campus Research Core Facilities (CRCFs) and Shared […]
School of Law Receives $1.15M to Serve Immigrants through Immigration Law Clinics
By Carla Meyer August 1, 2019 Two nonprofit organizations have given UC Davis School of Law a total of $1.15 million to help fund additional staff attorneys and further serve immigrants through its Immigration Law Clinic. Together Rising donated $900,000 it generated through a highly successful crowdfunding effort. The James Irvine Foundation granted $250,000 to […]
Summer 2019 Issue
Research Matters Quarterly Newsletter Summer 2019
MRR Innovation Lab Receives Grant up to $30M to Study Root Causes of Poverty, Food Insecurity
By Alex Russell July 31, 2019 The University of California, Davis, will lead a new global research program to build and test ways to overcome some of the biggest remaining challenges for lifting and keeping rural families out of poverty in developing countries. The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience, or MRR, […]
UC Davis Joins UC Campus Collective on Initiative to Provide Officials with Scientific Basis for Confronting Climate Change
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