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Katehi commented: “President Yudof’s budget proposal for 2010-11 is an ambitious one, but the good news is that a majority of Californians today agree with us that higher education in general, and the University of California system in particular, are institutions worth fighting for....

By EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science University of California - Davis) A workshop on "Neuroeconomics and Endocrinological Economics," to be held Nov. 20 and 21 at UC Davis, will be the first to bring together experts in neuroscience, economics and hormone physiology in one event, according to organizers. (Source: EurekAl...

By blindleof@sacbee.com (Bill Lindelof) A prominent Napa Valley wine company has donated $1 million to the University of California, Davis to construct a new building for a program that produces disease-free rootstock. Their generous gift helps California grape growers maintain access to healthy planting stock," said Neal...

By bcalvan@sacbee.com (Bobby Caina Calvan) The University of California this week launched a Global Health Institute – with UC Davis researchers taking a lead role in two key areas of study – to better understand health problems around the world, the university announced. Researchers at UC Davis will study the health issues of mig...

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By hsangree@sacbee.com (Hudson Sangree) That's a mandate," said Paul Petrovich, a developer who has built five projects in Davis, including a major shopping center. Petrovich graduated from the University of California, Davis, and once called the city home. Mark Siegler, a Davis resident and economics professor at Californi...

By Nursing News From Medical News Today Nurses Charge Public Endangered as Hospital Management Unlawfully Rations Nursing Care to Patients Registered Nurses at multiple units within the University of California Davis Hospital have filed a series of Department of Public Health charges against the facility, alerting the...

By Health News from Medical News Today Nurses Charge Public Endangered as Hospital Management Unlawfully Rations Nursing Care to Patients Registered Nurses at multiple units within the University of California Davis Hospital have filed a series of Department of Public Health charges against the facility, alerting the...

By BCalvan@sacbee.com (Bobby Caina Calvan) We have staffing problems in all UC hospitals, but there is no hosptial in the UC system that has this gross and deliberate understaffing," said Beth Kean, director of the University of California division for the nurses union. "We've tried to work with the administration at UC Davis and t...

By EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science University of California - Davis) The so-called "silver spoon" effect -- in which wealth is passeddown from one generation to another -- is well established in someof the world's most ancient economies, according to an internationalstudy coordinated by a UC Davis anthropologist.The...

By Health News from Medical News Today Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have identified the dominant odor naturally produced in humans and birds that attracts the blood-feeding Culex mosquitoes, which transmit West Nile virus and other life-threatening diseases. (Source: Health News from Medical New...

By EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health University of California - Davis) Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have identified the dominant odor naturally produced in humans and birds that attracts the blood-feeding Culex mosquitoes, which transmits West Nile virus and other life-threatening diseases. Th...

By hsangree@sacbee.com (Hudson Sangree) Butterworth, 28, a graduate of the University of California, Davis, who played quarterback at Davis Senior High School, was hired as the head coach two years ago. Butterworth, who also teaches math at Pioneer, hired his close friend, Nick Garofalo, another Davis High and UC Davis gradua...

By afurillo@sacbee.com (Andy Furillo) This is a regrettable and unfortunate case for everyone involved, and the University of California has taken this matter very seriously and wants to express our concern for the patient and family," the statement said. His father said in court that Cannon has undergone clinical trials on...

By bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines A Sacramento County Superior Court judge approved a $6 million medical malpractice settlement against the University of California on Friday on behalf of a 4-year-old boy who suffered injuries during birth at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. (Source: bizjournals.com Health...

By bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines A Sacramento County Superior Court judge approved a $6 million medical malpractice settlement against the University of California on Friday on behalf of a 4-year-old boy who suffered injuries during birth at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. (Source: bizjournals.com Health...

By afurillo@sacbee.com (Andy Furillo) In his declaration, Fagel said that according to attorneys who represented the University of California Board of Regents, the settlement is the largest the university system has ever paid to settle a medical malpractice claim. The Sacramento attorney who represented the university,...

I am writing in strong opposition to the plan to move most of the library’s biological and agricultural holdings to the Carlson Health Sciences Library. As the jewel of the University of California in general and of UC Davis in particular, the library deserves a `central, prominent place...

By atong@sacbee.com (Anna Tong) When push comes to shove, people don't feel it should be forced on them," said Jelger Kalmijn, president of University Professional Technical Employees, which represents a large portion of the University of California health care workers. "People should make their own health decisio...

By mlundstrom@sacbee.com (Marjie Lundstrom) Kristen Rogers, an assistant professor in the pediatrics department, filed suit Monday in Alameda County against the University of California Regents and Marilyn Peterson, longtime director of the UC Davis CAARE Diagnostic and Treatment Center.

By Gael O'Brien Scandal travels like a tsunami; it deposited Linda Katehi’s reputation in California, doused with mud, weeks before she moved there to assume the role of chancellor at University of California Davis. A high achiever, Katehi had solid administrative credentials, was well regarded as a...

“The UC regents and the (UC) president, despite significant financial challenges, will not compromise quality or access to the University of California,” she said, noting the UC Commission on the Future, which will visit the UC Davis campus soon. “They are deeply committed to finding a...

University of California campuses, including UC Davis, have given companies first rights to commercialize inventions that result from a program's research. They've given corporations a direct role in deciding which specific research projects are funded. They've let companies revi...

By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) The University of California Davis ranked 10th in Washington Monthly’s annual college rankings. “This is a proud day for the University of California,” UC president Mark G. Yudof wrote Wednesday in an announcement of the rankings.

By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) University of California, Davis August 27, 2009 In a year that's held little good news for budget planners at the University of California, Davis, a steady stream of grants from federal stimulus funds is providing a much-needed cushion for research programs campus-wide. About UC Davis

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Women hedge, issue disclaimers and ask questions when they communicate, language features that can suggest uncertainty, lack of confidence and low status. But men do the same, according to new research from the University of California, Davis.

The academy has been the single most eye-opening experience in my professional development journey thus far. This is 'must do'..." - Cawas Engineer, University of California, San Diego   It is very difficult for me to get out the lab to do anything. Taking me out of the laboratory to meet these p...

By EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science University of California - Davis) New UC Davis estimates say the federal government's Cash for Clunkers program is paying at least 10 times the "sticker price" to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

By EurekAlert! - Biology University of California - Davis) The first certified winner of the UC Davis "Western Cooling Challenge" is Coolerado Corp. of Denver. Recent federal tests showed that their 5-ton commercial rooftop unit should be able to air-condition a typical big-box store with less than half the ene...

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By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) A new research program at the University of California, Davis, aims to bring about earlier detection of a potentially devastating kidney disease. Lars Berglund, associate dean for research at UC Davis Medical Center, said government funding is essential to continuing research.

By EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science University of California - Davis - Health System) In a study published online by the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, UC Davis researchers report that it takes at least a year for former methamphetamine users to regain impulse control. The results tell recovering substance abuser...

By EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science University of California - Davis - Health System) A protein called neuroligin that is implicated in some forms of autism is critical to the construction of a working synapse, locking neurons together like "molecular Velcro," a study lead by a team of UC Davis researchers has found. (Sour...

Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, who saw an opportunity to call attention to his bill pushing for more legislative control over the University of California. Yee says his bipartisan bill is needed "to hold UC Regents accountable to the people of ...

By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) University of California, Davis June 1, 2009 June 13 -- Graduate School of Management: Pam Marrone, founder and chief executive officer of Marrone Bio Innovations; 10 a.m., Mondavi Center; 143 Master of Business Administration degrees.

By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) A lifelong gardener and a University of California, Davis, alumna, she tends her own vegetables, fruit and flowers without resorting to chemical pesticides. She went "green" long before the word meant more than the color of her thumb. Must credit Sacramento Bee

 DC This unique event, scheduled for June 21 to 23, will be at the University of California, Davis, and the California campus of The Culinary Institute of America. Conference highlights include extensive culinary demos and tastings, informative lectures ...

The University of California, Davis, School of Law has faculty who are available to comment from a variety of perspectives when President Barack Obama announces his nominee to replace Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court.

By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) Focused on providing the latest in stem cell therapies for horses, the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine has opened its new Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.

 CA All donations will go to the Children's Miracle Network's hospital expenses at the University of California at Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, said event organizer Kelly Chapman. More information will be available from those collecting donations in ...

By bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines The University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine has opened a stem-cell laboratory for horses. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines)

By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) Sacramento Business Journal - May 14, 2009 Business News - Local News Thursday, May 14, 2009, 11:54am PDT Sacramento Business Journal George R. Mangun has been appointed dean of the University of California Davis Division of Social Sciences.

By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 2:08pm PDT Sacramento Business Journal - by Mark Anderson Staff writer Scientists at the University of California Davis were awarded a $2 million grant to develop an electron microscope capable of filming biological processes.

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By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) University of California, Davis May 12, 2009 Media contact(s): Nigel Browning, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, (530) 754-5358, nbrowning@ucdavis.edu Liese Greensfelder, UC Davis News Service, (530) 752-6101, lgreensfelder@ucdavis.edu

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By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) Sacramento Business Journal - April 30, 2009 The University of California Davis has been awarded $7 million from the state stem cell agency to study the potential use of stem cells to treat babies with blood disorders and develop a treatment for Huntington’s disease.

By bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines The University of California Davis has been awarded $7 million from the state stem cell agency to study the potential use of stem cells to treat babies with blood disorders and develop a treatment for Huntington’s disease. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation head...

By nlofing@sacbee.com (Niesha Lofing) Diane McArthur, who is Thai, has owned three such restaurants in Sacramento over the years. Michael Nicholas, 34, a doctoral student at University of California, Davis, frequents Cindy's about twice a month for eggs "over medium," hash browns, sausage and an English muffin.

By cbowman@sacbee.com (Chris Bowman) If we don't have the people who are for the land being able to make a decent living, and we don't acknowledge their stewardship, we lose them," said George, the region's longtime livestock and natural resource adviser with the University of California Cooperative Extension.

By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) University of California, Davis March 4, 2009 Elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in 1999, he received the UC Davis Faculty Research Lecture Award in 2001 and the Distinguishing Teaching Award for Graduate and Professional Teaching in 2008. About UC Davis

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By menkoji@sacbee.com (M.S. Enkoji) Consumers bombarded by one bad piece of news after another could turn to shopping as a way to ease the battered psyche, said Margaret Rucker, a consumer psychologist and professor at the University of California, Davis. And it's spending, after all, that will eventually help get us out of...

Intent on protecting the state’s commercial rice fields from a tiny but destructive pest known as the panicle rice mite, the University of California, Davis, is decontaminating 11 campus greenhouses where the mite was recently found.

Raymond Keefer, an emeritus professor of chemistry with a long and distinguished career in research, teaching and service at the University of California, Davis, died on Feb. 6, in Davis, after a brief illness. He was 95. While he was the first chemistry student to conduct his Ph.D. research a...

Admissions to the University of California could see a major overhaul for the freshman class of 2012, a change meant to open up the university to low-income, minority, rural, and inner-city students, the Daily Californian reports.

By nlofing@sacbee.com (Niesha Lofing) The University of California, Davis, is leading an academic consortium working on a new system, called the Pharmaceutical Assets Portal, that would allow academic scientists nationwide to research drugs that might be used to treat diseases and conditions other than those they origi...

By eortiz@sacbee.com (Edward Ortiz) The Spokes provide a telling example of how a cappella groups are increasing in popularity on college campuses nationwide. As the first and only female a cappella group at the University of California, Davis, these musicians are all about seizing the moment.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have discovered that a prototype drug made at UC Davis reduces heart enlargement, one of the most common causes of heart failure, which affects 5 million people in the United States and contributes to 300,000 deaths annually.

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In addition to his contributions to the UC Davis Department of Music, Perle helped to make the University of California Press a "powerhouse in music" publishing, said D. Kern Holoman, professor of music at UC Davis and a University of California Press author.

By hsangree@sacbee.com (Hudson Sangree) Each weeknight in Davis, thousands of bicyclists leave the University of California campus and take to the city's darkened streets. As for enforcement on campus, UC Davis once had bike officers who regularly patrolled and handed out tickets, he said. Now, enforcement happens only on occ...

By cpeytondahlberg@sacbee.com (Carrie Peyton Dahlberg) Three other Northern California hospitals perform liver transplants: University of California, San Francisco; Stanford University; and California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. All did more than 50 liver transplants in 2007, with UCSF performing 127.

By hsangree@sacbee.com (Hudson Sangree) Dr. Mark Rashid, an engineering professor at the University of California, Davis, chaired the committee that drafted the revisions. Vang said she will probably go to California State University, Sacramento, where four of her siblings went to college.

Even as the nation's high school students settle into a new academic year, the next step -- where to apply to college -- is on the minds of many. A new book by Richard C. Dorf, a professor at the University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management, provides a systematic and comprehe...

The University of California, Davis, launches its 100th birthday celebration this Friday, Aug. 15, at the California State Fair, with a featured exhibit on the university's contributions to science and society. The exhibition launches a yearlong celebration of 100 years of UC Davis hi...

As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, Summers was initially invited to be a speaker at an upcoming dinner event of the University of California Regents, but many faculty members objected to his selection and the offer to Summers was subsequently rescinded: