University of California

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…

Opening Jan. 29, the Fowler Museum at UCLA presents “Amir H. Fallah: The Fallacy of Borders,” the artist’s first museum exhibition in Los Angeles. A celebration of Fallah’s vibrant maximalist style, more than 25 works of painting,…

Organic chemists at UCLA have created the first synthetic version of a molecule recently discovered in a sea sponge that may have therapeutic benefits for Parkinson’s disease and similar disorders. The molecule, known as lissodendoric…

Solar flares and other types of space weather can wreak havoc with spaceflight and with telecommunications and other types of satellites orbiting the Earth. But, to date, scientists’ ability to research ways to overcome that challenge has…

The online master’s degree program at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has again been ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report. In the publication’s 2023 list of best online engineering programs, UCLA moved up from the No. 2…

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…

A new study shows that global atmospheric dust — microscopic airborne particles from desert dust storms — has a slight overall cooling effect on the planet that has hidden the full amount of warming caused by greenhouse gases.The UCLA…

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…