Office of Research News Archives

UC Davis Sets Record With $846.7 Million in Research Funding

Comprehensive Cancer Center Receives $6.3 million to address disparities for Latinos, Asians and Blacks

Interview with Prasant Mohapatra on His New Role as Vice Chancellor for Research

Abhijit Chaudhari, an associate professor in the UC Davis Department of Radiology

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiatives Enabled by AB 2664 Funding Show Impact

Transforming the Food System through Strategic Partnerships in “Moonshots for Better Food”

International Agreement Will Expand Research on Stereotyping and Prejudice

Can We Grow One of the World’s Largest Food Crops Without Fertilizer?

UC Davis neuroscientists advance learning and memory research to decode how our brains work

Commercialization of Innovative Treatments Aided by STAIR Plus Grants

Record Number of UC Davis Startups for 2017–18

BASF and UC Davis collaborating to unlock new potential in human milk oligosaccharides

Multicenter study finds Zika virus may pose greater threat of miscarriages than previously thought

UC Davis Chancellor Selects Prasant Mohapatra as Vice Chancellor for Research

Anne Britt, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Plant Biology

UC Davis STAIR and DIAL Grant Recipients Developing Breakthrough Innovations

Research from UC Davis Migration Research Cluster Shows Deporting Immigrants Hurts Local Economies

Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow Is Creating New Possibilities for an Old Material

UC Davis Innovators Honored for Contributions in Agriculture, Pathology

Earth BioGenome Project Aims to Sequence DNA From All Complex Life

UC Davis Signs Agreement to with Australian National Science Organization to Enhance Global Cross-Disciplinary Research

Symposium at UC Davis to Focus on the Value and Values of Feminist Research

New Source of Global Nitrogen Discovered

Primo “Lucky” Lara named UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center Director

Startup Founded by Researchers From UC Davis and UC Berkeley Acquired by TDK Corporation

Protestors leave shoes in front of Capitol to protest gun violence

Can Gun Violence Restraining Orders Help Prevent Mass Shootings?

Training a Bee to Fly Upwind: Stacey Combes’ Research Reveals the Complex Biomechanics that Help Insects Survive

Kalindi Vora Receives 2018 Rachel Carson Prize for ‘Life Support’

Consumer, Industrial Products Overtake Transportation as Source of Urban Air Pollution

Startup Receives FDA Clearance for Polymer That Can Help Injured Bones Regrow

UC Davis Is Educating and Inspiring the Next Generation of Nuclear Scientists

UC Davis Licenses Technology for Miniaturized System That Can Detect Chemicals With High Specificity and Sensitivity

Biotechnology Program at UC Davis Has Been Connecting Students with Industry for 20 Years

How Susan Ustin Helped Launch a New Field of Study and Why She Continues to Study the Earth from Above

Muir Institute Announces Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives

UC Davis Establishes Alliance of Excellence in Biophotonics with German Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies

Muir Institute Selects Fellows to Further Its Environmental Mission

Kalindi Vora named director of Feminist Research Institute at UC Davis

Scientists Rally to Help Unique Research Facility Destroyed by Hurricane Maria

Mitigating Climate Change with Mud? UC Davis Team Chosen as Part of Resilient by Design’s Bay Area Challenge

UC Davis Sponsored Research Funding Increases to $783 Million

UC Davis Startups Tackle Complex Problems

Elsevier, Inc. and UC Davis Partner on Data Science Initiatives

Researcher Profile: Irwin Donis-González Wants to Share the Best of the Best

Brave New Medicine: How an Enzyme Created with Synthetic DNA May Enable the First Treatment for Celiac Disease

CDC Supports UC Researchers in Fighting Vector-Borne Diseases

Mini-Grant Program in Geriatrics-2017-2018

Podcast: CNPRC Researchers Visit Unique Primate Centers in Borneo and Thailand

Animals in Research and Teaching at UC Davis

Austin Brown Named New Executive Director of UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment, and the Economy

UC Davis Launches Microbiome Initiative to Leverage Expertise across Campus

Nine grants, totaling $328,000, awarded to help campus innovators advance research and technology towards commercialization

Reconstruction of Ancient Chromosomes Offers Insight Into Mammalian Evolution

America’s Mighty Dream: Pianist/Activist Lara Downes and the Transformative Power of Music

Amber Waves of Genetic Wheat Mutations: Developing Better Wheat to Feed the World

Pianist, Wheat Geneticist Recipients of 2017 Innovator of the Year Award

Feminist Research Institute Looks to Bridge Gap between Humanistic and Scientific Sides of UC Davis

Researcher Spotlight: How an Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Became Interested in the Ethics of CRISPR/Cas-9

Research Project Looks to Increase Women and Underrepresented Minorities in the Sciences

Researchers launch underwater robots to study how and when ice shelves collapse

Startup Uses Friendly Chat Bot Named Wazlo to Connect Workers with Employers

Kelly Gravuer takes a soil sample at Russell Ranch. Her soil microbe study for her Ph.D. at UC Davis yielded unexpected results.

Invasion of the Poultry Manure Microbes. Or Maybe Not.

5 Things You Probably Don’t Know About the Soil Microbiome

Plant Genes May Lack Off Switch, But Have Volume Control

‘OneClimate’ a Call to Arms Fusing UC Davis’ Collective Strength in Climate Science

Uncovering the Hidden Life of Soil

Flour & Oil: How a UC Davis Researcher is Helping Improve Health in Developing Countries

KeckCAVES Virtual Reality Software Now for Gaming Headsets

The UC Davis-HM.CLAUSE Life Science Innovation Center

$2.2 Million in State Funds to Enhance Entrepreneurship and Innovation

At 27 Years Old, MNRC Remains One of “Newest” Nuclear Reactors in U.S., But Industry May be Waking Up

Cow Gene Study Shows Why Most Clones Fail

Can Ben Houlton Help UC Davis Solve Climate Change?

UC Davis and BASF Announce Collaboration on Development of New Microencapsulation Technology

UC Davis Receives $760 Million in Sponsored Research Funding

How a ‘Nonsense’ Genetic Mutation from a Bull Born in 1962 Caused the Loss of Half a Million Calves Worldwide

Interim Vice Chancellor for Research Cam Carter

Cameron Carter named Interim Vice Chancellor for Research

14 New Startups Based on Technologies Developed at UC Davis Tackle Range of Scientific, Medical and Societal Problems

McClellan Nuclear Research Center Receives “Green Light” on Strategic Plan, Appoints New Director

New Director of John Muir Institute of the Environment Looks to Solve Complex Environmental Problems

From Ideas to Innovation with STAIR Grants

Research Profile: Using robots and computer programming to get students excited about math

Wayne Theibaud poses for a photo at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis)

Recipients of 2016 UC Davis Chancellor’s Innovation Awards Announced

A Priceless View: EyePod Lets Researchers See ‘What’s Really Happening’ Inside Tumors

UC Davis Researchers One Step Closer to Creating Hand-held Device to Detect Pathogens like E. coli

Startups with Roots at UC Davis Pivot as Innovations Become Businesses

Exploratorium and UC Davis Partnership

Research Vice Chancellor Harris Lewin to Step Down

UC Davis Provides Foundational Science to 13 Startups for 2014-15

STAIR Grant 2014-15

Charles E. Hunt, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

STAIR Grant: 2013-14 Awardees

UC Davis ramps up new commercial venture formation with 14 technology startups in past year

UC Davis Sets Record With $846.7 Million in Research Funding

The University of California, Davis, had a record year for external research funding in fiscal year 2017-18, receiving $846.7 million in awards, a $64 million... Read More

Comprehensive Cancer Center Receives $6.3 million to address disparities for Latinos, Asians and Blacks

September 21, 2018 UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, an Organized Research Unit overseen by the UC Davis Office of Research, has received a $6.3 million... Read More

Interview with Prasant Mohapatra on His New Role as Vice Chancellor for Research

Prasant Mohapatra was recently selected by UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May to serve as vice chancellor for research — taking a leading role over... Read More

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiatives Enabled by AB 2664 Funding Show Impact

September 17, 2018 A one-time $2.2 million investment from the State of California under Assembly Bill 2664 is propelling new and expanded innovation and entrepreneurship... Read More

Transforming the Food System through Strategic Partnerships in “Moonshots for Better Food”

International Agreement Will Expand Research on Stereotyping and Prejudice

By Lisa Howard August 29, 2018 The University of California, Davis, has signed a four-way memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Zhengzhou Normal University in China,... Read More

Can We Grow One of the World’s Largest Food Crops Without Fertilizer?

UC Davis neuroscientists advance learning and memory research to decode how our brains work

Commercialization of Innovative Treatments Aided by STAIR Plus Grants

By Lisa Howard August 6, 2018 Three research teams at University of California, Davis, have received STAIR-Plus™ Grants to help demonstrate proof-of-concept and commercial feasibility... Read More

Record Number of UC Davis Startups for 2017–18

By Lisa Howard July 30, 2018 The University of California, Davis, enabled the foundation of 16 commercial companies during the fiscal year ending June 30,... Read More