University of California, Davis

About UC Davis For 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matters to California and transforms the world. Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has 31,000 students, an annual research budget that exceeds $500 million, a comprehensive health...

Robert Dorn, a Davis psychiatrist who devoted his career to understanding and treating mental health problems that originate in the earliest years of life, has given $1 million to support infant development research at UC Davis.

“In addition to creating and preserving jobs in a difficult economy, these grants will support important research in medicine, basic sciences and engineering that will have long-term benefits for the economy of California and the nation — and they will help us to train the next generat...

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By acreamer@sacbee.com (Anita Creamer) New research by a pair of UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine scientists confirms previous theories that people 65 and older may be protected from the most serious effects of the novel H1N1 virus by many decades' worth of previous exposure to other flu viruses.

Sponsors: Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Studies, and the UC Davis Humanities Institute Research Cluster on Space and Spatiality • Peter F. Ward, alternative fuel and vehicle technology program manager, California Energy Commission.

On the research point, Delbanco received some collegial “push back” by Carolyn de la Peña, an associate professor of American studies who also directs the UC Davis Humanities Institute. “Research does matter,” said de la Peña, who asked Delbanco if he thought humanities research shoul...

The new program will select and support U.S. and international partners as they undertake research, training, curriculum-development and outreach activities in the neediest countries, most located in sub-Saharan Africa, southern Asia and Latin America.

The grant from the California Postsecondary Education Commission provides funding for a three-year project headed by Joanne Bookmyer, director of teacher research at the Cooperative Research and Extension Services for Schools (CRESS) Center. The funds will enable the center, work...

By Health News from Medical News Today Damaged knee joints might one day be repaired with cartilage grown from stem cells in a laboratory, based on research by Professor Kyriacos Athanasiou, chair of the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering and his colleagues. Using adult stem cells from bone marrow and skin as well...

By atong@sacbee.com (Anna Tong) There is a great need for credible research in the arena of autism and the environment, experts said. The comprehensive nature of the Sacramento study will help guide clinicians, said Antonio Hardan, director of Stanford Medical School's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic.

By atong@sacbee.com (Anna Tong) A UC Davis study released today adds to a growing body of evidence discrediting a link between children's autism and mercury levels. There is a great need for credible research in the arena of autism and the environment, experts said.

Decades of neuroscience research have revealed highly sophisticated brain circuits which regulate sodium appetite by facilitating communications between the brain and multiple organs throughout the body," said study co-author Joel C. Geerling, a neuroscientist and physician fo...

In a report published earlier this year, the National Academies of Science called for more research to establish the scientific basis of forensic methods and develop ways to measure the uncertainty in forensic conclusions. The UC Davis program aims to meet that need, Tulleners said.

The event brings together Little’s San Francisco-based company with students (undergraduate and graduate) in theatre and dance, music and technoculture “to create a practice as research performance that will be of interest to the campus community as a whole, particularly to those w...

By Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content Scientists want to find out whether and if senior citizens are more immune or resistant to the H1N1 flu virus and are doing research at UC Davis. Contributor: Anne HartPublished: Oct 14, 2009 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)

By blindelof@sacbee.com (Bill Lindelof) An olive oil partially developed from UC Davis trees will go on sale today at the bookstore in the university Memorial Union. Proceeds from the sale of the Centennial Blend of extra virgin olive oil will benefit the UC Davis Olive Oil Center, supporting research and education.

By Phyllis Brown SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (October 13, 2009) - UC Davis researchers are among a handful of scientists nationwide to receive a highly coveted challenge grant from the National Institutes of Health, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The award is one of only 200 selected from a...

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By bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines The UC Davis Health System will receive more than $2 million in federal funding for four on-going research projects at its Sacramento campus, Rep. Doris Matsui announced Wednesday. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines)

By bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines The UC Davis Health System will receive more than $2 million in federal funding for four on-going research projects at its Sacramento campus, Rep. Doris Matsui announced Wednesday. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)

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UC Davis School of Medicine students from the class of 2011 held what was likely the largest memorial service in the school’s history to honor individuals who have donated their bodies to support medical research and education. Charles Casey is a senior public information representati...

Elva Diaz and Kathy DeRiemer are receiving two of this year’s 55 Innovator Awards, which are funded by the NIH Common Fund’s Roadmap for Medical Research and encourage investigators to explore bold ideas with the potential to speed the translation of research into improved health.

“Professor German has demonstrated through the milk genome project that collaborations in research across broad disciplinary areas are possible and can lead to much more success than would individual, isolated efforts,” said Neal Van Alfen, dean of the College of Agricultural and E...

By bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines The UC Davis Cancer Center will participate in a long-term statewide project to test new approaches to breast cancer research, technology and treatment. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

By bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines The UC Davis Cancer Center will participate in a long-term statewide project to test new approaches to breast cancer research, technology and treatment. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)

• Innovation. Relatively young as a comprehensive campus, UC Davis has a great ability to think in innovative ways that are not constrained by history. • Multidisciplinary research. By reforming its research enterprises, the university can reach $900 million, or even a billion dollars,...

By David Ong SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (September 18, 2009) - At a news conference this week in Los Angeles, California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. unveiled a Web-based prescription-drug database that tracks all controlled substances (Schedule II, III and IV) prescribed in the state and gives doc...

By Dorsey Griffith SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (September 18, 2009) - UC Davis Cancer will receive a $30,000 donation for pediatric cancer research Wednesday from Hyundai Hope on Wheels™, a philanthropy of Hyundai Motor America and its dealers.  The 2009 Hope on Wheels Tour is traveling nationwide to donate more...

By David Ong SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (September 17, 2009) - Seven UC Davis researchers received pilot grant awards from the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) to conduct innovative and collaborative research. The awards support studies ranging from work on a more effective epil...

By Susan Mar-Schwab September 17, 2009 - Childhood cancer patients and their families who have received treatment at UC Davis Cancer Center will join Hyundai and its dealers to present Noriko Satake, M.D. with a check for $30,000.

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...

Intent on improving the health conditions of migrating people in California and around the world, the University of California’s Berkeley and Davis campuses are joining forces to launch a new Migration and Health Research Center.

By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Two UC Davis students — Mary Saunders, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative pathology with designated emphases in biotechnology and translational research, and Wenhui Zhou, an undergraduate studying biochemistry and molecular biology — received scholarships at a l...

By Carole Gan August 28, 2009 - On September 2, the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program will announce the results of a comprehensive, undercover study entitled Inside Gun Shows: What Goes on When Everybody Thinks Nobody’s Looking. This unique report includes hundreds of hidden-camera ph...

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.

By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) The UC Pavement Research Center was founded in the late 1940s at UC Berkeley to advise the state on the construction and maintenance of the highway network. The center now is headquartered at UC Davis, with a small team of staff researchers assisted by students.

By Karen Finney SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (August 11, 2009) - The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has selected Michael Minzenberg of UC Davis as a recipient of a 2009 Clinical Scientist Development Award for his pioneering work in treating schizophrenia.

By Jennette Carrick SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (August 11, 2009) - Two international nursing leaders, one from Switzerland and one from Israel, will share their insights into nursing education and research during a breakfast lecture on Tuesday, Aug. 18, at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis.

The project draws on the nationally recognized expertise of the university, particularly from eight research centers including the UC Davis Center for Entrepreneurship, the UC Davis Water Efficiency Center, the UC Davis Energy Institute, the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center, the...

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By Karen Finney SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (August 4, 2009) - A peer-led health education and counseling program designed to help patients manage their chronic illnesses initially had some positive outcomes but did not improve patient health after one year, according to new research from UC Davis.

By Phyllis Brown SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (August 3, 2009) - State-of-the-art research and best practices for interventions to support children and adults with autism, Asperger syndrome, fragile X syndrome and other neurodevelopmental disorders will be presented by leaders in the field during a one-day...

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 bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines The UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento will receive $375,000 to buy equipment for its emergency department and California State University Sacramento will receive $350,000 for research equipment. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines)MedWorm Messa...

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By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) BP: $350 million over 10 years to UC-Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Illinois to study biofuels. Exxon Mobil and other partners: $225 million for energy research including some biofuel projects to Stanford University in Palo Alto. (Gates Foundat...

By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) Grants for local biofuel research ExxonMobil and other partners: $225 million for energy research including some biofuel projects to Stanford University in Palo Alto (Gates Foundation also awarded $3.8 million to study effects of biofuel on the poor)

By Phyllis Brown SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (June 29, 2009) - Nine area college students are taking a giant step toward cancer science careers this summer — and helping to address a shortage of under-represented groups in cancer research — by working as interns in one of four UC Davis cancer research laboratorie...

By Karen Finney SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (June 23, 2009) - Two UC Davis students — Mary Saunders, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative pathology with designated emphases in biotechnology and translational research, and Wenhui Zhou, an undergraduate studying biochemistry and molecular biology — received scho...

They include Jonna Mazet, professor of epidemiology and wildlife health and director of the Wildlife Health Center at UC Davis. She discussed her research into the interface of animals and people and disease transmission in drought-stricken rural ...

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Media Newswire (press release), NY Page, who received his doctorate in entomology at UC Davis in 1980 and continues his research at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis, was elected to the prestigious academy for his pioneering research in behavioral genetics ...

 Switzerland Leigh, an expert in economics and occupational illnesses, and study co-author Juan Du, who recently received her Ph.D. from UC Davis and is now an assistant professor in the School of Business at The College of New Jersey, based their research on data ...

By Phyllis Brown June 9, 2009 - Leading autism researchers nationwide will hold a media teleconference to launch one of the largest research studies of its kind to investigate early risk factors for autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The research network, called the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Inves...

Make Me Heal  Switzerland UC Davis is playing a leading role in stem cell research, with more than 125 scientists and physicians currently working on a variety of stem cell investigations at campus locations in both Davis and Sacramento. The university recently broke ground for ...

By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) Although she has only worked in Davis for two years, her research in stem cells extends back 20 years, when she completed her master's degree at UC Davis before spending several years at Washington University. The return to California for research was both personally and professionally...

The center will coordinate the efforts of more than 20 UC Davis researchers in sociology, medicine, education, environmental design, human and community development, and other disciplines. The research will be guided by a 13-member advisory committee ...

UC Davis is playing a leading role in stem cell research, with more than 125 faculty scientists and physicians working on a variety of stem cell investigations at campus locations in Davis and Sacramento. The university's new Institute for Regenerative ...

By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) UC Davis researcher Alice Tarantal has been granted $4.2 million for preclinical research with embryonic and umbilical cord blood stem cells that have potential for treating sickle cell anemia, thalassemia and bleeding disorders.

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...

The crack research team has been bitten by the bicycling bug. Before the guys got too far on the American River Trail, they found some useful sites for area cycling: Davis Bike Club Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates Sacramento Wheelmen Sacramento Bike Hikers

By Solano EDC(SolanoEDC@gmail.com) For 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matter to California and transform the world. Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has 31,000 students, an annual research budget that exceeds $500 million, a comprehensive health system and 13 spe...

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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About UC Davis For 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matter to California and transform the world. Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has 31,000 students, an annual research budget that exceeds $500 million, a comprehensive health sy...

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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...

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...

Carolyn de la Peña, associate professor, American Studies Program — Professor Jay Mechling of the American Studies Program described de la Peña as a “triple threat” faculty member who demonstrates excellence at research, teaching and service.

Along with Wyman and Mooring, co-authors of the study are Professor Lynette Hart and Associate Researcher Brenda McCowan with the Department of Population Health and Reproduction in the School of Veterinary Medicine, and Associate Research Geneticist Cecilia Penedo in the Veterin...

By Gavin Baker(noreply@blogger.com) Bourne says his first idea was to essentially create “pubcasts,” which typically consist of a 15-minute video in which the author of a published and peer-reviewed article explains the research and highlights the key findings. ... Scientists also are using SciVee to enhance research publi...

For 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matter to California and transform the world. Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has 31,000 students, an annual research budget that exceeds $500 million, a comprehensive health system and 13 spe...

By webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) Frank Bean, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy, UC Irvine Moderator: Jack Citrin, Professor of Political Science; Director, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley