Entries by Aj Cheline
UC Davis–Delta Stewardship Council Journal Has Helped Inform California Water Policies for 15 Years
By Lisa Howard When the peer-reviewed journal San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science launched fifteen years ago, the editors chose what was then a somewhat new model of scientific publication known as “open access.” At that time, most academic journal publishers kept their content behind pay walls, accessible only with expensive subscriptions that were mostly […]
$4.7M to Study Storing Greenhouse Gases in Soil
By Lisa Howard January 16, 2019 California leads the nation in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but reductions alone will not be enough to reach the targets set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement. To do that, greenhouses gases like carbon dioxide will need to be removed from the atmosphere on a monumental scale. An ambitious […]
How a mysterious box of tobacco industry papers shaped Dr. Elisa Tong’s medical career
By Lisa Howard Elisa Tong, a general medicine physician at UC Davis Health, would like to help you quit smoking. She’d like to help everyone who smokes quit smoking, actually. Even if you have cancer — even if you have lung cancer — she’d like to help you quit because of the immediate health benefits. […]
Winter 2018 Issue
Research Matters Quarterly Newsletter Winter 2018
Guidance Related to Government Shutdown
The Office of Research, in collaboration with other offices, is closely monitoring the partial government shutdown and the impact on research. While parts of the federal government (such as NIH) are fully funded for the entire Fiscal Year ’19, other agencies (such as NSF) are not. The following is a summary of the information that […]
UC Davis Microbiome Special Research Program Awards Seed Funding to Seven Collaborative Research Projects
By Jose Franco The UC Davis Microbiome Special Research Program and the Office of Research are pleased to announce the recipients of seven seed funding awards. Each awarded proposal will receive $40,000 over two years. The seed funding program is designed to catalyze new projects and innovations in microbiome sciences with an emphasis on new […]
