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 […]
By Lisa Howard Instead of graduating and jumping straight into the workforce, some enterprising grads are forming companies with ideas and innovations they developed at UC Davis. John Bissell (’08) helped develop a method for creating more sustainable plastic as an undergraduate studying Chemical Engineering. Tom Shapland (’07, M.S. ’11, Ph.D. ’12) worked with a […]
The Research Core Facilities Program was launched in 2015 by the Office of Research to oversee and strengthen the core research infrastructure at UC Davis. As part of this charter, the program has initiated a process to designate certain laboratories across the university that provide shared research services as Campus Research Core Facilities. This designation […]
March 17, 2016 – The University of California, Davis and Hacker Lab, Inc., a Sacramento nonprofit organization, have entered into a collaborative agreement to include the business incubator as the third member of the university’s Distributed Research Incubation & Venture Engine (DRIVE™) Network. The alliance pairs the established facilities and resources at Hacker Lab with […]
Cristina Davis is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the Bioinstrumentation and BioMEMS (bio-microelectromechanical systems) Laboratory. Her main research interests are chemical and biological sensing applications, use of technology to speed biomarker discovery, novel bioMEMS devices, and bioinformatics interpretation of sensor output. Davis’ group is currently developing new sensor systems for […]
By Dana Topousis February 9, 2016 Harris Lewin has decided to return to the faculty in the Department of Evolution and Ecology and the Genome Center after successful service as vice chancellor in the Office of Research over the period of his five-year term. Lewin, who joined UC Davis in 2011, will transition out of […]
By Aj Cheline Recent UC Davis graduate and cancer survivor develops simple test that may improve breast cancer detection and forms startup company based on the technology “I wouldn’t say that I have always thought of myself as an entrepreneur, but I have always considered myself a problem solver,” says Angela Courtney, who recently received […]
