For close to 20 years, Matthew Smith has worked as the Department of Physics and Astronomy’s lecture demonstration support technician. Take a peak inside his physics demonstration workshop in this staff profile.

After a year of planning, UC Davis students completed their first day of teaching in Escuela Secundaria Estatal Modesto Sánchez Mayón in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico.

A UC Davis theoretical physicist studying the quantum nature of matter and a mathematician investigating the complexity of large datasets are the recipients of grants totaling more than $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER).

The COVID-19 pandemic affected the education of nearly all children, but a new Center for Poverty and Inequality Research analysis shows how the COVID-19 pandemic intensified inequality between K-12 students based on their race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.