By Lisa Howard June 8, 2017 Lara Downes grew up in San Francisco, near the beach, in a house with three pianos: two baby grands and an upright. She is the eldest of three intensely musical sisters who all practiced at the same time, taking turns on the different instruments. “One piano was in the […]
By Lisa Howard Jorge Dubcovsky, a world-renowned wheat breeder and geneticist, says he is not a romantic when it comes to the visual appeal of a wheat field, not even when it is bathed in the golden light of a California sunset. “You know those old paintings that show these beautiful wheat fields with waving spikes? […]
by Lisa Howard June 8, 2017 Lara Downes, artist in residence at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, and Jorge Dubcovsky, distinguished professor of plant sciences and Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher, were named the 2017 Innovators of the Year by University of California, Davis, Interim Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter at a ceremony on […]
Research Compliance & Integrity (RCI) is pleased to announce the rollout of a fully online Conflict of Interest (COI) disclosure process to the research community. This system eliminates all paper-based COI disclosures and will make process more efficient and user friendly. As of June 1, 2017, we will be asking investigators to submit all disclosures […]
By Lisa Howard In her opening remarks at the Feminist Research Institute symposium, “Feminist Research Across the Disciplines,” Interim Director Laura Grindstaff noted that feminist scholarship has had minimal impact on the STEM disciplines compared to social sciences and humanities. “In STEM, there is increasing attention to the under-representation of women and people of color […]
By Lisa Howard CRISPR/Cas-9 is a powerful new gene modification technology that has the capability to change the genome of any living species, including humans. As part of a seed grant from the Feminist Research Institute, four UC Davis faculty are looking at the implications of this brave new world and developing a feminist framework […]
By Lisa Howard Susan Eberler’s research focuses on wine and chemistry. Patsy Eubanks Owens’ research focuses on the relationships between people and the outdoor environment. Astrid Volder specializes in plant root systems — how plant roots respond to stresses such as extreme heat or drought. And Marco Molinaro’s research has looked at the applications of […]
From Pole to Pole, Underwater Robots Help Predict How and When Ice Shelves Collapse To outer space and the deep ocean, add “beneath the ice” to the list of rarely charted frontiers of science exploration. Latest News & Events
By Lisa Howard UC Davis students hope to use artificial intelligence to change how employees are recruited What if, instead of filling out a boring online form to apply for a job, you could just have a chat with a friendly bot using Facebook messenger? That’s the idea behind Wazlo, a Davis-based startup that wants […]
By Lisa Howard Adding compost to soil introduces needed carbon and nutrients, but less is known about what happens to the existing microbiome. Can microbes within the compost successfully “invade” the resident community? And if so, how long do they stick around? How do the resources and microbes in the compost affect the resident microbe […]
