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There is an alarming shortfall of particle physicists prepared to design instruments that open pathways to Nobel Prize-winning discoveries like neutrino oscillations and the Higgs boson. To help fill the gap, the U.S. Department of Energy…

The University of California, Davis, offered freshman and transfer admission status for fall 2021 to a record 52,254 applicants — including an all-time high of 31,772 California residents.The total number of new students admitted for…

Chancellor Gary S. May and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Croughan are pleased to announce that Ari Kelman has been appointed faculty advisor to the chancellor and provost, effective August 1, 2021. He succeeds Ken Burtis, who…

The University of California, Davis, today (June 24) named the recipients of the 2021 Chancellor’s Innovation Awards. The awards recognize faculty, project teams and community partners for their work, dedication and success in improving…

Anew study from the University of California, Davis, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai confirms that surgical masks effectively reduce outgoing airborne particles from talking or coughing, even after allowing for leakage…

chose to get vaccinated as soon as I was eligible to better protect myself and the people I care about, as well as to set an example for our campus community!” — Victoria Choi, English major, fourth year“As an undergraduate student…

Pilings based on snakeskin are easier to drive into soil and more difficult to pull out, according to lab tests at the UC Davis Center for Geotechnical Modeling. These pilings could one day support buildings, dams and other structures in…

Alexander Huynh, the National Youth Poet Laureate for 2021, first presented her poetry at a UC Davis program held at her high school.Self-doubt almost stopped Alexandra Huynh of Carmichael from entering the high school classroom where a…

University of California scientists have discovered genetic data that will help food crops like tomatoes and rice survive longer, more intense periods of drought on our warming planet.Over the course of the last decade, the research team…

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found a link between traffic-related air pollution and an increased risk for age-related dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. Their study, based on rodent models, corroborates…