Every day faculty and students from the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis are highlighted in the news media, having their research featured and commenting on the most pressing issues facing the world.
Check out some of these news media highlights from the past month.
The surprising X-factor in California’s insurance race
Politico
Nicholas Pinter
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Associate Director of UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
2026 Senate forecasts shakier than they appear, researchers find
StudyFinds
Christopher Hare
Associate Professor of Political Science
UC Davis professor breaks down the complexity of Israel's historic election
KCRA
Joshua Shanes
Emanuel Ringelblum Professor in Jewish History
Director of Jewish Studies Program
Rewiring the Mind
Medium.com
David E. Olson
Director of the Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics
Professor of Chemistry
Ancient armored bottom-feeder is first seagoing amphibian
Reuters
Ryosuke Motani
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
How to find “Flow” when you’ve lost it
NPR
Richard Huskey
Associate Professor of Communication
The NHI waiver raises concerns
Taipei Times
Ming-Cheng M. Lo
Professor of Sociology
Younger men are attracted to older women for reasons that have nothing to do with looks
Fox News Channel
Paul Eastwick
Professor of Psychology
State's gas price is even higher than Hawaii's
San Francisco Chronicle
Erich Muehlegger
Professor of Economics
UC Davis lighting research now being harnessed to reduce stress
KCRA
California Lighting Technology Center
Google’s Project Suncatcher has officially launched to space
Scientific American
Crocker Nuclear Lab
Are noncitizens voting illegally in California? What to know as federal dispute continues
Miami Herald
Kevin R. Johnson
Distinguished Professor of Law
Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest
Professor of Chicana/o/x Studies
JD Vance attacks companies and immigration
Forbes
Giovanni Peri
C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Professor in International Economics
4 mental tricks to help you remember things you tend to forget
The Washington Post
Charan Ranganath
Professor of Psychology
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September Media Mentions
Every day faculty and students from the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis are highlighted in the news media, having their research featured and commenting on the most pressing issues facing the world. Check out some of these news media highlights from September 2026.
Researchers Unearth Fossil Evidence of First Fully Marine Amphibian
Scientists report fossil evidence of the first fully marine amphibian in a study from the University of California, Davis; Peking University; and the Geological Museum of Guizhou. The amphibian is an armored, giant salamander-sized, bottom-dwelling ocean creature that the researchers named Gerrothorax maritimus.