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Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, Distinguished Professor in the University of California, Davis, Department of Chemical Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Curtis, who served as the first female dean of the UC…

Two professors and 11 associate professors have been honored with an additional title: Chancellor’s Fellow.“Our newest fellows represent the very best of UC Davis and I congratulate them,” Chancellor Gary S. May said in announcing the new…

Two University of California, Davis, researchers have won prestigious national and international awards in recognition of their work using genomics to address livestock health and crop resilience in the wake of a changing climate.The…

UC Davis Vice Chancellor of Research Prasant Mohapatra has accepted the position of provost and executive vice president of academic affairs at the University of South Florida starting March 1.Under Mohapatra’s leadership, UC Davis…

Biomedical engineers at the University of California, Davis, have created semi-living “cyborg cells.” Retaining the capabilities of living cells, but unable to replicate, the cyborg cells could have a wide range of applications, from…

High-severity wildfire is increasing in Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascade forests and has been burning at unprecedented rates compared to the years before Euro-American settlement, according to a study from the Safford Lab at the…

Spring is the sweet spot for breeding songbirds in California’s Central Valley – not too hot, not too wet. But climate change models indicate the region will experience more rainfall during the breeding season, and days of extreme heat…

An internal circadian clock controls the distinctive concentric rings of flowering in sunflowers, maximizing visits from pollinators, a new study from plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, shows. The work is published…

Two UC funding programs recently awarded nearly $17 million to 29 multicampus, multidisciplinary projects, eight of them with UC Davis researchers as the lead principal investigators.The bulk of the money, $16.4 million, went to…

Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Croughan announced today the appointment of Michael Bradford as vice provost and dean of Undergraduate Education. He joins UC Davis from the University of Connecticut, where he has served as the…