By Lisa Howard Ben Houlton hasn’t quite settled into his office in The Barn. The new director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment took over the program in August from Mark Schwartz, who had steered the program for seven years. The 41-year-old professor in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, looks […]
FLORHAM PARK, NJ and DAVIS, CA, November 2, 2016 – BASF and University of California, Davis (UC Davis) entered into a collaborative research agreement to investigate a patent- pending microencapsulation technology. Developed in the lab of University Associate Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Tina Jeoh, the technology protects and improves the performance and delivery […]
The University of California, Davis, received $760 million in external research funding for fiscal year 2015-16, down slightly from last year’s all-time high of $786 million. UC Davis was fourth overall among University of California campuses, which received a combined total of just above $6 billion from all external sponsors during fiscal year 2015-16. “This […]
By Lisa Howard Pawnee Farm Arlinda Chief was one of the most prolific bulls in the history of Holstein cattle breeding — but he also introduced a lethal gene into the population, responsible for an estimated half million spontaneous abortions worldwide. Now researchers have identified the mutation responsible, enabling ranchers to test for and avoid […]
AJ Cheline Cameron Carter — a professor in the UC Davis Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the director of two UC Davis research centers — has been named the interim vice chancellor for the Office of Research. Carter has held the Endowed Professorship in Schizophrenia Research and served as director of the Schizophrenia Research and Education Program since 2006. He has led the Center for Neuroscience in […]
Research Matters Quarterly Newsletter Fall 2016
By Lisa Howard The University of California, Davis, enabled the foundation of 14 commercial startups during the past fiscal year— matching the largest number of new ventures launched in a single year, based on UC Davis technologies. MUSE Microscopy, one of the startups, is planning to revolutionize the way pathologists identify disease. The company’s technology, […]
The McClellan Nuclear Research Center (MNRC), owned and operated by UC Davis, has received approval from campus leadership to proceed with the implementation of a recently developed strategic plan that sets the direction for the facility over the next 5+ years. As part of the continued commitment, Wesley Frey, Ph.D., formerly the center’s radiation safety […]
By Lisa Howard The UC Davis Office of Research has named Benjamin Houlton as the new director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment, known as JMIE. Houlton takes over from Mark Schwartz, who has directed the program since 2009. Houlton, a professor in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, was named […]
The Research Core Facilities Program (RCFP), launched in 2015 by the Office of Research, is pleased to announce the recipients of $2.1 million in new funding to help strengthen the research infrastructure at UC Davis. In its first year of operation, the RCFP developed the Campus Research Core Facilities Enhancement Funding Program to make strategic […]
