In a study appearing in PLOS Global Public Health, UC Davis researchers investigated the epidemiological risk factors, outside of HIV, associated with TB in South Africa’s Northern Cape Province.
As society reckons with the fallout from this atmospheric chemical change, University of California researchers are seeking solutions to not only mitigate emissions but to harness carbon dioxide waste.
Around 170,000 years ago, the Yellowstone Caldera — a supervolcano — produced a series of small eruptions in frequent pulses lasting roughly 100,000 years. Remnants from those eruptions can be found on the Earth’s surface today as volcanic rock. And those rocks contain critical clues about the interior of the supervolcano.
A recently installed prototype detector at CERN was forged by Aggie hands, fabricated and installed by UC Davis undergraduate and graduate students in Matthew Citron’s research group.
The Office of Public Scholarship and Engagement (PSE) has selected seven graduate students as Public Scholars for the Future fellows. The scholars include three L&S graduate students who will learn to integrate community-centered theories, methods and techniques into their disciplinary field of study, research design and methods.
For the last six years, graduate student Meredith Carlson has studied the ongoing development of stone tool use in white-faced capuchins on the islands of Coiba and Jicarón, both located within Panama's Coiba National Park.
In the lab of Professor of Chemistry Davide Donadio, physical chemistry graduate student Maggie Berrens investigates the fundamental properties of the ice surface to better understand how ice acts as a catalyst for environmental reactions.
Javier Aztiazarain was at a crossroads in his life. For years, he’d worked as an engineer for a production company, designing and building stage shows and live events for clients across the entertainment and sports industries. While he enjoyed the work, Aztiazarain wasn’t satisfied. He wanted to move in a different professional direction, one that still fed his love for design and tinkering tendencies.
Earlier this year, a team of researchers from the UC Davis Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics revealed in Science that psychedelics spur cortical neuron growth by activating intracellular pools of 5-HT2A receptors. This neuroplasticity combats the withering dendritic spines characteristic of several neuropsychiatric disorders.
When did archery arise in the Americas? And what were the effects of this technology on society? These questions have long been debated among anthropologists and archaeologists. But a recent study published in Quaternary International and led by an anthropologist from the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis is shining light on this mystery.
