By Lisa Howard June 6, 2018 The very first flight Hilal Cansizoglu ever took was when she left Turkey in 2008 to pursue a master’s degree in electrical engineering in the United States. Her family was at Istanbul Atatürk Airport to see her off, and one of her younger sisters — she has two — […]
The University of California, Davis, tonight (May 15) announced the recipients of the university’s 2018 Chancellor’s Innovation Awards at a ceremony on campus. Established in 2016, the awards recognize faculty, community partners and industry leaders for their work, dedication and success in improving the lives of others and addressing the needs of our global society […]
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The University of California, Davis announced a partnership with CSIRO, Australia’s pre-eminent national science organization. The partnership marks the first major collaboration agreement between CSIRO and an American university. The five-year partnership agreement encourages scientists and research facilities across the globe, including more than 4,500 CSIRO scientists, to seamlessly collaborate across disciplines including, but not […]
By Lisa Howard UC Davis students, postdocs, faculty, staff and community members are invited to explore how feminism can inform research at the third annual Feminist Research Symposium, May 8 in the Student Community Center Multipurpose Room. This event is organized by the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute (FRI). The symposium will highlight the results […]
Primo Nery Lara, Jr. has been named director of the National Cancer Institute-designated UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, leading a team of more than 300 scientists with an estimated $90 million in annual research funding and a clinical enterprise that serves more than 10,000 adult and pediatric patients throughout the region every year. “Dr. Lara […]
By Lisa Howard March 19, 2018 Chirp Microsystems, a startup enabled with technology developed at UC Davis and UC Berkeley, announced it has been acquired by Japanese electronics giant TDK Corporation. Based in Berkeley, Chirp Microsystems makes tiny, ultra-low power sensors that function like sonar or echolocation, sending out ultrasonic sound waves and then measuring […]
Research Matters Quarterly Newsletter Spring 2018
By Lisa Howard March 7, 2018 Dr. Amy Barnhorst, a psychiatrist and the vice chair of Community Psychiatry in the UC Davis Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, became involved in gun violence prevention after the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that left 20 children and six adults dead. In […]
