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 […]
August 4, 2016: Venture Catalyst, a unit within the Technology Management and Corporate Relations division of the UC Davis Office of Research, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 Science Translation and Innovative Research, or STAIR, grants. Now in its third year, the competitive STAIR grant program provides awards of up to $50,000 to […]
August 4, 2016: Venture Catalyst, a unit within the Technology Management and Corporate Relations division of the UC Davis Office of Research, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 Science Translation and Innovative Research, or STAIR, grants. Now in its third year, the competitive STAIR grant program provides awards of up to $50,000 to […]
By Lisa Howard Climate change means many different things to many different people, but one thing is clear: the issue touches virtually every aspect of the planet’s natural capital and affects society’s ability to solve pressing issues related to human health, the economy, and ecosystem sustainability. Research at UC Davis has provided tremendous leadership on […]
By Lisa Howard July 11, 2016 For the past 10 years, Harry Cheng, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC Davis, has been trying to get K-12 students excited about math, especially algebra. In California, students are required to pass Algebra 1 in order to graduate from high school. Algebra is also essential […]
Research Matters Quarterly Newsletter Summer 2016
By AJ Cheline May 22, 2016 Cancer is not like other diseases. It can grow rapidly and invade surrounding tissues, changing its molecular structure to evade treatments. Because the disease is so dynamic, any single view — from a scan, biopsy or microscope — is just one frame in a long-running movie. To truly understand […]
By Lisa Howard Marc Pollack, a Ph.D. student in the UC Davis Microbiology graduate group, and Jeremy Warren, a former postdoc in Plant Pathology, leave Davis at 5 a.m. every weekday morning to commute to IndieBio, a startup accelerator in a narrow alley just south of Market Street in the heart of San Francisco. It’s […]
