University of California, Davis

The UC Davis Graduate School of Management has $2 million in new seed money to spark entrepreneurship in California, thanks to a gift from the estate of Charles J. Soderquist, a UC Davis alumnus who founded and led several dozen high-tech companies in the greater Sacramento area.

• 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,...

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 notebookworthy Today I left my house at 9 am to meet a friend at U.C. Davis. It was a long drive and the hot weather was daunting, but I’m so glad that I went. She ended up taking me to this Italian restaurant called Caffe Italia about a 3 minute car ride from the campus.

Toward this, the UC Davis Extension workshop Aug. 25-26 will review safe work practices and show participants how to develop injury-preventing strategies. The sessions run from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days; they will be held in the Da Vinci Building, 1632 Da Vinci Court, Davis.

A cover story on in the March 2009 issue of National Jurist magazine praises the UC Davis School of Law as having one of the most diverse faculties of any American law school. The article, “The Search for the Missing Voices,” interviews Dean Kevin R. Johnson on the law school’s diversity. UC Da...

By chubert@sacbee.com (Cynthia Hubert) Big deal? Not to Granda, who will be among 190 women and men who will graduate Saturday from UC Davis School of Law. UC Davis law school Dean Kevin Johnson, for one, offers no argument. Saturday, three years after entering law school, she will receive her diploma from UC Davis.

By mweiser@sacbee.com (Matt Weiser) Now UC Davis researchers, after analyzing more than a century of cougar attacks, say it might be better in some cases to run instead. Logan has studied cougars in Colorado, California, New Mexico and Wyoming. He's seen wild mountain lions "a few hundred times" and been charged twice.

Speaking on behalf of the UC Davis Foundation, Meg Stallard, a 1968 alumna and longtime supporter of UC Davis who helped announce the award today, noted that the prize reflects the value that the foundation places on excellence in undergraduate teaching.

By eortiz@sacbee.com (Edward Ortiz) Richard Egarr brings the 12-musician Academy of Ancient Music to UC Davis' Mondavi Center on Saturday.Expect a different take on Bach's Brandenburg Concertos when conductor Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music perform Saturday at the Mondavi Center.

“It is encouraging that this currently is a limited infestation,” said Yolo County Agricultural Commissioner Rick Landon. “We appreciate the efforts of UC Davis in working with us to ensure that the rice industry of the Sacramento Valley is protected from the rice panicle mite.”

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.

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 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.

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.

Davis campus bicyclists and would-be vanpoolers are invited to talk transit next week and the week after. The campus’s only other vanpool is even older — having thrived for more than 24 years running to and from El Cerrito in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 CA - More specifically, the list ranks schools with high quality academics offered at reasonable prices. The Princeton Review calls UC Davis a "vibrant campus ...

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 eortiz@sacbee.com (Edward Ortiz) To accomplish his lofty musical goals, Holoman reached out to members of the now-defunct Sacramento Symphony for its teacher core. This effort eventually brought such players as Sacramento Philharmonic bassist Tom Derthick and cellist Susan Lamb Cook to the UC Davis fold.

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...

Some faculty do not like the iTunes U concept and have declined the invitation, citing UC Davis student exclusivity and intellectual property issues. At UC Davis, the pioneering professors using UC Davis on iTunes U see benefits for their campus and are motivated by a desire to serve.

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...