Geology provides a language for understanding the Earth. Stories from the planet’s past are locked in the rocks and landscape. But others are hard to reveal, hidden in troves of data. Alums Barbara Wotham and Chad Trexler launched a Geology Coding Bootcamp program to help students uncover those stories.
Suad Joseph, a leading scholar of women and gender in the Middle East, has established the Suad Joseph Graduate Student Research Award in Lebanon and Palestine Studies. The award will support graduate students conducting research on Lebanon, Palestine and/or their diasporas.
The UC Davis Department of Psychology graduate program was ranked #6 among public institutions and #14 overall in the 2025 US News & World Report Grad School rankings. This ranking places the department in the top 2% of U.S. psychology Ph.D. programs and second only to veterinary medicine among UC Davis graduate programs.
When it comes to the architecture of the human genome, it’s only a matter of time before harmful genes arise in a population. These mutations accumulate in the gene pool, primarily affected by a population’s size and practices like marrying within a small community. New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal provides rare direct evidence showing that increased homozygosity leads to negative effects on fertility in a human population.
