By Jeffrey Day October 24, 2019 The new Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies at University of California, Davis, is receiving $1 million in state funding to expand research on one of the nation’s largest and fastest growing Asian American communities. The funding was announced by Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Alameda, who championed the funding, at an […]
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering professor Francis Assadian is a co-PI on a $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to study cooperative automated vehicles (CAVs) in rural and multimodal environments. Led by at Texas A&M University, the four-year project titled, “AVA: Automated Vehicles for All” involves collaborators at George Washington University, General Motors, […]
By Lisa Howard EicOsis LLC, a UC Davis-enabled startup, announced yesterday (Oct. 15) it has been awarded a $15 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to support human clinical trials of a non-opioid pain therapy. The technology of the lead compounds was developed at UC Davis in the lab of Professor […]
By Lisa Howard Researchers from eight countries and nine institutions gathered at the International Center at UC Davis on October 8 and 9 for a two-day workshop, “Food Security and Food Innovation.” The event, organized by UC Davis and the University of Sydney, was designed to strengthen existing partnerships and build upon complementary scientific expertise […]
by Jeffrey Day Work to restore the natural flow of Alameda Creek into the San Francisco Bay involving two design department faculty is moving forward with $31.4 million from the State of California. Alameda Creek flows though the cities of Fremont, Union City and Newark before entering the bay. The sediment it deposits in the […]
The University College Dublin (UCD) and the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) have signed an agreement of co-operation. The agreement, to further develop education, research, innovation and cultural links between the both institutions, builds on a strategic partnership agreement signed in September 2014. The signing took place at an international Food Innovation and Food […]
By Becky Oskin, College of Letters and Science “Earworms” are those fragments of songs that get stuck on repeat in your head. While earworms are often frustrating, repeated exposure to catchy tunes can also trigger old memories, even in people whose memory skills are impaired by Alzheimer’s disease or other cognitive disorders. Petr Janata, professor […]
By Lisa Howard The women Rukhshanda Abdur Rehman has interviewed in her native Pakistan have put a lot of faith in her. They are the agricultural workers who plant, tend and harvest the region’s wheat and rice crops, among others, in the agriculturally rich region of Punjab. “After I talk to them, they feel like […]
By Kat Kerlin The U.S. Agency for International Development will award up to $85 million over the next five years to the University of California, Davis’ One Health Institute and consortium partners to implement the One Health Workforce—Next Generation project. The project intends to enhance global health security by strengthening the capacity of university networks […]
