Spring 2017 Issue
Research Matters Quarterly Newsletter Spring 2017
Entries by Aj Cheline
Uncovering the Hidden Life of Soil
Microbes in Soil Are Essential for Life and May Help Mitigate Climate Change By Lisa Howard Kate Scow, a professor of soil science and soil microbial ecology at UC Davis, keeps plastic bags filled with soil on her desk. We are meeting in her office in Plant and the Environmental Sciences Building on campus, not […]
Flour & Oil: How a UC Davis Researcher is Helping Improve Health in Developing Countries
By Lisa Howard Reina Engle-Stone was halfway through her biology degree at Cornell University when she discovered global nutrition. Her introduction was a nutritional epidemiology class, and almost immediately she was hooked. “You could take biology and apply it to other things. I thought, this is great, this is what I want to do,” she […]
UC Davis licenses novel compound that helps stem cells regenerate bone to treat bone diseases
Hybrid molecule LLP2A-Alendronate could have implications for osteonecrosis, fractures, osteoporosis and inflammatory arthritis. The University of California, Davis, is pleased to announce a licensing agreement with Regenerative Arthritis and Bone Medicine, Inc. (RABOME) for a class of drugs developed at UC Davis that hold potential for treating diseases associated with bone loss and inflammatory arthritis. […]
University of Sydney and UC Davis sign partnership agreement
New collaboration unites animal and agricultural sciences leaders A new partnership agreement between the University of Sydney and the University of California, Davis will see academics benefit from new access to research collaborations and shared funding. Dr. Carter and Dr. Spence both highlighted the fact that UC Davis has research expertise which greatly complements […]
KeckCAVES Virtual Reality Software Now for Gaming Headsets
Virtual reality software used by scientists at the University of California, Davis, to study everything from earthquakes to molecular biology in a 3-D “cave” can now run on some off-the-shelf gaming VR headsets. Instructions and downloads are available online. Latest News & Events
$2.2 Million in State Funds to Enhance Entrepreneurship and Innovation
By Lisa Howard 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 Assembly member Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, and signed last fall by Governor Jerry Brown. AB 2664 is designed to propel new innovation and entrepreneurship efforts across the University […]
At 27 years old, MNRC remains one of “newest” nuclear reactors in U.S., but industry may be waking up
By Lisa Howard On January 20, 1990, when the nuclear reactor at McClellan Air Force Base achieved its first sustained nuclear reaction known as “criticality,” it was the newest reactor in the United States. Six years later, when the Tennessee Valley Authority launched the Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station, the reactor at McClellan was […]
Winter 2017 Issue
Research Matters Quarterly Newsletter Winter 2017
High-Severity Wildfires Complicate Natural Regeneration for California Conifers
By Kat Kerlin A study spanning 10 national forests and 14 burned areas in California found that conifer seedlings were found in less than 60 percent of the study areas five to seven years after fire. Of the nearly 1,500 plots surveyed, 43 percent showed no natural conifer regeneration at all. The study was co-led […]
