By Lisa Howard October 9, 2019 The women Rukhshanda Abdur Rehman has interviewed in her native Pakistan have put a lot of faith in her. They are the agricultural workers... Read More
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Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow Is Creating New Possibilities for an Old Material
By Lisa Howard June 6, 2018 The very first flight Hilal Cansizoglu ever took was when she left Turkey in 2008 to pursue a master’s degree in electrical engineering in... Read More
Training a Bee to Fly Upwind: Stacey Combes’ Research Reveals the Complex Biomechanics that Help Insects Survive
By Lisa Howard March 7, 2018 According to Stacey Combes, it’s not hard to train a bee to fly upwind in a wind tunnel. “They like certain colors and certain... Read More
How Susan Ustin Helped Launch a New Field of Study and Why She Continues to Study the Earth from Above
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... Read More
Researcher Profile: Irwin Donis-González Wants to Share the Best of the Best
By Lisa Howard August 28, 2017 Irwin Donis-González met his wife when he was putting chestnuts through a CT scanner in the Department of Veterinary Science at Michigan State University,... Read More
Amber Waves of Genetic Wheat Mutations: Developing Better Wheat to Feed the World
By Lisa Howard June 8, 2017 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,... Read More
Researcher Spotlight: How an Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Became Interested in the Ethics of CRISPR/Cas-9
By Lisa Howard May 18, 2017 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... Read More
Flour & Oil: How a UC Davis Researcher is Helping Improve Health in Developing Countries
By Lisa Howard February 22, 2017 Reina Engle-Stone was halfway through her biology degree at Cornell University when she discovered global nutrition. Her introduction was a nutritional epidemiology class, and... Read More
Can Ben Houlton Help UC Davis Solve Climate Change?
By Lisa Howard November 23, 2016 Ben Houlton hasn’t quite settled into his office in The Barn. The new director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment took over... Read More
Research Profile: Using robots and computer programming to get students excited about math
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... Read More