The Vaida Chair — the first endowed faculty position in the Department of Physics and Astronomy — was established with a $1.5 million estate gift from Michael L. Vaida, Ph.D. ’73, and his wife, Ester Vaida.
A chemist studying the cellular and molecular architecture underlying neurological diseases recently received an Incentives for Large Grant Award from the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis. The Incentives for Large Grant Awards program provides faculty with up to $80,000 in support over two years to pursue large grants of over $1 million.
Light pollution dampens our view of the stars, hindering our connection to the universe above. It’s one of the reasons why astronomical observatories are erected in remote, often pristine, places. The opportunity to travel to such places drew Lori Lubin to astronomy.
Article 26 Backpack provides refugees and other vulnerable young people a means to safely store and share vital education-related and professional documents with universities, scholarship agencies and even employers. In these stories, past and current UC Davis undergraduate Backpack guides share how Article 26 Backpack has shaped their futures.
UC Davis has just appointed Ron Mangun and Amanda Guyer co-directors of the Center for Mind and Brain (CMB). As co-directors, they will lead the center for the next three years. They will build on the center's foundation of research on child development, aging, disease and many other areas related to the mind and brain.
The book Father Time is a personal investigation into the deep history of male care, beginning with the very first caretakers, male ones among fish over 400 million years ago, through eons of mammalian and primate evolution.
In a new study published June 13 in Nature Food, UC researchers reprogrammed plants’ sugar-making machinery to produce a diverse array of these human milk sugars, also called human milk oligosaccharides.
Brooke Morey was recognized as the top graduating senior at UC Davis during the commencements at Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center June 14 to 16. She was awarded the University Medal
UC Davis physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, recently completed a measurement that sets an upper limit on the size of one of the smallest particles known, the tau lepton.
In honor of his commitment to mentorship, the Mathematical Association of America has honored Jesús De Loera with the T. Christine Stevens Award for Leadership Development. The award recognizes the importance of professional development that seeks to build leadership capacity within the mathematical sciences.
