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Climate Scientist Responds to Trump’s Withdrawal From Paris Agreement

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • June 01, 2017
  • Environment
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Big Bang Winners

Food, Ag and Social Enterprise Innovations Make a Big Bang!

  • by Marianne Skoczek
  • May 26, 2017
  • Science & Technology
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Woman in kitchen holding a sauce pan

4 Paths at Summer Sessions for Exploring Careers

  • by Sharon Campbell Knox
  • May 26, 2017
  • Education
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Tiny Shells Indicate Big Changes to Global Carbon Cycle

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • May 25, 2017
  • Environment
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Postdoc Mike Gil Named TEDGlobal Fellow

  • by Andy Fell
  • May 23, 2017
  • University
  • Science & Technology
Planet, disk and planet and synestia

Synestia, a New Type of Planetary Object

  • by Andy Fell
  • May 22, 2017
  • Science & Technology
Measuring Lake Tahoe clarity

Climate and Ecology Linked to Lake Tahoe Clarity Decline in 2016

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • May 18, 2017
  • Environment
  • Science & Technology
Chinook salmon

Nearly Half of California’s Native Salmon, Steelhead and Trout on Track to Be Extinct Within 50 Years

  • by Nina Erlich-Williams
  • May 16, 2017
  • Environment
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Kids at C-STEM Day

C-STEM Day Is May 20

  • by Andy Fell
  • May 15, 2017
  • Education
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DNA.

UC Davis Anthropologist and Team Identify Remains of 19th Century Toddler

  • by Kimberly Hale
  • May 10, 2017
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Science & Technology
  • Society, Arts & Culture
A single red strawberry, with white tag, hangs from a green-leafed strawberry plant that is planted in a black plastic pot.

Public Strawberry Breeding Program Backgrounder: Frequently Asked Questions

  • by Pat Bailey
  • May 08, 2017
  • Food & Agriculture
  • Science & Technology
ice glider, Antarctica

Beneath the Ice in Antarctica

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • May 08, 2017
  • Environment
  • Education
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Professor Jodi Nunnari at UC Davis lectern in 2013

Cell Biologist Jodi Nunnari Elected to National Academy of Sciences

  • by Andy Fell
  • May 03, 2017
  • Science & Technology
  • Human & Animal Health

Wind Turbines Affect Behavior of Desert Tortoise Predators

  • by Jennifer LaVista
  • May 03, 2017
  • Environment
  • Human & Animal Health
  • Science & Technology
Business carpool, shared mobility

You Say You Want a Transportation Revolution? How About Three of Them?

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • May 02, 2017
  • Environment
  • Human & Animal Health
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  • Society, Arts & Culture
Three students adjust gears on a racecar frame that they designed

8 STEM Contests That Start on Campus

  • by Amy Whitcomb
  • May 02, 2017
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Peter Wainwright with fish skull

Peter Wainwright Explores Fish Evolution and Feeding

  • by Andy Fell
  • May 01, 2017
  • University
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Brain images

Grant to Model Human Memory and Learning for Machines

  • by Kathleen Holder
  • April 27, 2017
  • Science & Technology
  • Human & Animal Health
Two men in floppy canvas hats pick greens from a drying frame and place them in a plastic bag.

UC Davis DryCard Invention Wins Competition to Reduce Food Loss in Africa

  • by Brenda Dawson
  • April 27, 2017
  • Food & Agriculture
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A male student sits on a compost pile.

5 Reasons Why Undergraduates Should Do Research

  • by Julia Ann Easley
  • April 25, 2017
  • Student Life
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Rebecca Calisi is using pigeons to study differences between the sexes.

Pigeon Study Takes on Sexism in Science

  • by Andy Fell
  • April 18, 2017
  • Science & Technology
  • Human & Animal Health
Bryozoan, jellyella tuberculata

Canary in the Kelp Forest

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • April 18, 2017
  • Environment
  • Human & Animal Health
  • Science & Technology
Math graduate student

7 Cool Facts About Math and Statistics at UC Davis

  • by Andy Fell
  • April 11, 2017
  • Science & Technology
  • Education
Coral reef

Fish Social Lives May Be Key to Saving Coral Reefs

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • April 10, 2017
  • Environment
  • Human & Animal Health
  • Science & Technology
Cluster used as lens to detect distant galaxy

Long Ago and Far Away, an Average Galaxy

  • by Andy Fell
  • April 10, 2017
  • Science & Technology

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