When the cattle began dying in British Cape Colony in southern Africa, no one knew why. It was 1896 and germ theory — the idea that disease is caused by nearly invisible living organisms — was still relatively new.
Four years before these events, Jotello Soga, a well-regarded veterinarian, had warned that a coming epidemic threatened to destroy the region’s livestock.
“I make bold enough to say, that more than two-thirds of Colonial cattle will succumb to its ravages,” Soga wrote in an 1892 scientific journal article.
In response to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s recent death, Navalny, a documentary focused on his 2020 poisoning and life thereafter, will be screened at 1002 Cruess Hall at UC Davis on Feb. 26 at 5:30 p.m. The screening is free and open to the public. No registration is necessary.
The film, which was released in 2022, won last year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Kathy Stuart, associate professor of history, delights in crime and deviance — her research specialty. The University of California, Davis, academic’s enthusiasm for blood, heinous crimes and the various ways people kill each other hovers somewhere between an obsessed prosecutor and a delighted child who takes in horror movies on Saturday afternoons.
Kathryn Olmsted, a professor in the Department of History at UC Davis, has been named associate dean of the faculty in the social sciences in the College of Letters and Science.
Students from across the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis shared their research on some of California’s most pressing policy issues in a fast-paced poster session during this summer’s UC Center Sacramento Undergraduate Research Showcase.
