By Lisa Howard January 18, 2018 High school and college students in the greater Sacramento region have a unique opportunity to learn about nuclear science at the UC Davis McClellan Nuclear Research Center. A new educational outreach program, the Nautilus Program, named after the U.S. Navy’s first nuclear submarine, is giving students hands-on experience with […]
Research Matters Quarterly Newsletter Winter 2017
By Lisa Howard The University of California, Davis, is pleased to announce a licensing agreement with SensIT Ventures Inc. for a breakthrough technology that can be used to identify a broad range of chemicals from environmental samples. The license, negotiated by the InnovationAccess team within the UC Davis Office of Research, provides exclusive access to […]
By Lisa Howard About 70 doctoral students from different departments — Integrative Genetics and Genomics, Food Science, Microbiology, Materials Science and Engineering — fill room 1022 in the UC Davis Life Sciences building for course MCB 294, “Current Progress in Biotechnology.” The Friday seminar is part of the Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology program, what everyone […]
In 1982, Susan Ustin began working with NASA satellite data to study how plants respond to environmental stress. Thirty-five years later, the pioneer in remote sensing, and a distinguished professor of environmental and resource sciences at UC Davis, is still finding new ways to tackle environmental problems from above. By Lisa Howard When Susan L. Ustin […]
Sara L. Nichols Brings Experience with Cap-and-Trade, International Climate Diplomacy By Lisa Howard The John Muir Institute of the Environment at UC Davis is pleased to announce the selection of Sara L. Nichols as associate director of strategic initiatives. Nichols joins the team to coordinate and manage large-scale interdisciplinary research and outreach initiatives including OneClimate, […]
The University of California, Davis, and the Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies (Leibniz-IPHT), in Jena, Germany, have entered an agreement of cooperation to establish the Jena-Davis (JEDIS) Alliance of Excellence in Biophotonics — designed to promote North American-German cooperation on research and development in the field of biophotonics. The project aims to intensify communication between […]
By Lisa Howard The John Muir Institute of the Environment at University of California, Davis, is pleased to announce the selection of six UC Davis experts for its inaugural class of fellows. The fellows were identified as those who have made a real-world impact on society and have the potential to help further the Muir […]
By Sarah Rebolloso McCullough The Feminist Research Institute (FRI), a Special Research Program in the Office of Research, announced the selection of Kalindi Vora as its new director. Vora comes to UC Davis from UC San Diego where she served as associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, and as affiliate faculty of the […]
By Lisa Howard When Darcy Hannibal wanted to eat lunch while she was studying rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago — also known as Monkey Island, a half mile off the coast of Puerto Rico — she had to put herself in a cage. “Otherwise the monkeys will go for your food,” said Hannibal. “They aren’t […]
