Keith David Watenpaugh, professor of human rights studies at UC Davis, traveled to Idlib, Syria, in the wake of civil war and shares how the nation can embrace the inherent differences of its peoples and build a successful society.

How do cities plan for the future? UC Davis Professor Catherine Brinkley discusses urban planning, environmental justice and community development at a recent June Davis Science Café.

A new study in psychology used advanced statistical modeling to chart loneliness and social isolation as older adults move through stages of cognitive impairment and mortality. The results suggest that loneliness plays a much stronger role in cognitive impairment and shorter life spans than social isolation on its own.

Researchers at UC Davis are expanding into positive psychology to understand how social connection and the experience of joy can help people across LGBTQ+ communities to thrive.

For her innovative research in Indigenous studies and on the politics of knowledge, de la Cadena was recently elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. 

On Presidents Day weekend, children at the SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity, or MOSAC, in Sacramento played Wreathies, a game created by graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Communication’s UC Davis Media Lab. The game is part of a scientific study to test whether kids between 8 and 12 years old prefer to have choices in their learning.

Attraction, attachment, being in love: These topics have all been fodder for magazine articles in publications as varied as Nature, The Knot and Cosmopolitan. In fact, multiple UC Davis researchers have been quoted in hundreds of stories to talk about the science of love. Turns out, most people — and many animal species — are geared toward pairing up. And life — and often, living well and healthy — depends on these bonds. At UC Davis multiple labs are investigating these unions.

A new book by UC Davis political scientist Amber Boydstun explains why some events drive media storms, an explosion of sustained media coverage, and why other events, even very similar ones, don’t.

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder has been recognized again with the 2026 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, which exemplifies tremendous contributions of emeriti to the continued excellence of the University of California system.  

A new study by UC Davis and Stanford SQARQ applied AI tools and techniques to New York Police Department body-worn camera footage to learn whether officers followed legal rules for stops and searches.