By Lisa Howard The first woman to ski alone across Antarctica, a professor who has written a book about the offbeat ephemera of polar expeditions, a painter who spent three months camping in Antarctica, and a poet-naturalist who has been a guide in some of the globe’s most remote places will converge at UC […]
By Lisa Howard The Feminist Research Institute (FRI) and the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies (GSW) held a one-day workshop at UC Davis on February 4, kicking off the first phase of a three-year project to help graduate students look at their research within broader cultural and societal contexts as well as increase […]
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 […]
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. […]
Research Matters Quarterly Newsletter Winter 2018
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 […]
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 […]
