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For the last five months of 2022, Lake Tahoe was the clearest it has been since the 1980s. That is due in part to a resurgence of the lake’s native zooplankton. They’ve provided a natural clean-up crew to help restore the lake’s famous…

If infected with the Ebola virus, less than 20% of endangered mountain gorillas living in Africa’s Virunga Massif region would be expected to survive more than 100 days past the first confirmed case. That is according to a study that used…

Social media connects people and amplifies different aspects of humanity in good and bad ways. But the effects of social media appear neither universally good nor bad, but rather present an oscillating, dynamic system that can be divisive…

Continuing and Professional Education, or CPE, has developed its first certificate program that can serve as a bridge to UC Davis graduate degrees.The first “degree pipeline” is the Public Health Certificate Program, developed in…

The University of California, Davis, is releasing five new strawberry varieties that are resistant to the soilborne disease Fusarium wilt, have high yields and improved fruit quality.UC Eclipse, UC Golden Gate, UC Keystone, UC Monarch and…

Astudy using data from telescopes on Earth and in the sky resolves a problem plaguing astronomers working in the infrared and could help make better observations of the composition of the universe with the James Webb Space Telescope and…

The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, or FFAR, named UC Davis Assistant Professor Alessandro Ossola among its 10 recipients of the 2022 New Innovator in Food & Agriculture Research Award. The award, announced today…

U.S. News & World Report named the School of Veterinary Medicine No. 1 in the nation in its most recent rankings of professional and graduate programs. The media company released updated rankings today (April 24) for nearly 20…

The UC Davis Institute of the Environment has named four Environmental Faculty Fellows for 2023: Michele Barbato and Jasquelin Pena of the College of Engineering, and Jamie Hansen-Lewis and Emily Schlickman of the College of Agricultural…

Bicycles whirr by, students rush to class, staff and faculty are grabbing lunch or coffee on the go — and sheep graze the grassy knolls among the traffic, bleating every now and then. The grazing is their job.The 25 wooly sheep who…