At UC Davis, Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences, or CUREs, provide an alternative path to real-world research. They allow students to conduct authentic scientific research in the classroom. A new study appearing in the Journal of Chemical Education shows that CURE classes are an effective way of bolstering student confidence and sense of belonging in the sciences.
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.
