Five researchers from the University of California, Davis, including two from the College of Letters and Science, were listed among recipients for the inaugural awards through the U.S. Department of Energy’s, or DOE, Genesis Mission — a national program leveraging artificial intelligence to accelerate breakthroughs in energy, discovery science and national security.
From Aug. 31 to Sept. 4, the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter will hold its annual meeting at UC Davis. The conference, focused on the phenomena of emergence, will include a variety of talks and roundtables featuring distinguished experts in soft, biological and quantum matter.
In this video, UC Davis observational seismologist Amanda Thomas discusses the causes of the Venezuela doublet, why earthquake science matters and how Thomas’ research is helping us learn more about the tectonic shifts beneath our feet.
It’s been 40 years since the first demonstration of high-temperature superconductivity. A new article published in Nature written by UC Davis physicists Inna Vishik and Warren Pickett takes a retrospective look at “this strange state of matter.”
Melting and breaking icebergs in the far-off, northeastern region of the Pacific Ocean can weaken a massive current system in the Atlantic Ocean, according to a University of California, Davis study published in Nature Communications.
Goabaone Jaqueline Ramatlapeng vividly remembers when she would go without water from domestic pipes for days. For the last eight years, those experiences have driven her desire to help Botswana preserve its water resources as the country's first female hydrogeochemist.
From a mountaintop in Chile, under clear dark skies, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun the revolutionary Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The ten-year survey is Rubin’s signature campaign to create the most comprehensive, cinematic record of the Universe in history.
A maker space for undergraduate research, the BioInnovation Lab provides a place for students to learn basic lab skills, experiment, innovate and contribute to research while also providing access to technologies they might not otherwise have. Explore how College of Letters and Science faculty are using the space in their classes.
David E. Olson, a professor of chemistry, and biochemistry and molecular medicine at the University of California, Davis, was recently appointed editor-in-chief of ACS Chemical Neuroscience, a transdisciplinary publication of the American Chemical Society that focuses on the use of chemical and molecular tools for understanding the nervous system and identifying new neurotherapeutics.
UC Davis has dozens of faculty members who belong to some of the most prestigious membership organizations in the world, a recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in research. This month the "Among the Academies" series profiles Andreas Albrecht, of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
