Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common childhood behavioral disorder. A research collaboration between the Center for Mind and Brain and the UC Davis School of Medicine are using virtual reality to understand ADHD better, which could improve its diagnosis and treatment in children and adults.
Non-linear time sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but what if we could rewrite our histories in ways that feel as if things don’t happen sequentially? Overlapping the concepts of time, memory and the body, Gracianne Kirsch uses many art modalities to explore their own many-sided self.
Psychology Ph.D. student Zachary Oakland, a military veteran, is developing a new understanding of social anxiety. What drives him, he said, is a need to understand post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a debilitating condition that many veterans bring home.
In a study appearing in Physical Review C, UC Davis researchers use computational models of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider data to show how scientists can refine their search for signals of the supercritical phase of nuclear matter, divorcing background noise from legitimate signals in the data.
From ancient sewing needles and woven baskets to wearable technology, textile production is a uniquely human endeavor. As part of a co-curated exhibit pulled from the Jo Ann C. Stabb Design Collection at UC Davis, "Textiles: The Art of Mankind," puts this shared history — and future — on display at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.
As an assistant diving and boating safety officer for UC Davis based at Bodega Marine Laboratory, Abbey Dias works with UC Davis researchers to coordinate and provide guidance for critical fieldwork that’s helping us understand the health of our oceans and waterways, and in turn, our global climate.
A group of researchers, including some from UC Davis, have received a three-year, $2,999,998 grant from NASA to identify and characterize life and its biosignatures in frozen sand dunes in Alaska, under conditions similar to dune fields on early Mars and Saturn’s moon Titan.
Adele Zhang, the manager and curator of the Jo Ann C. Stabb Design Collection, recently shipped 134 of the collection's objects to London, where they will be exhibited for the first time internationally. To make it happen, Zhang worked with partners across UC Davis and launched a successful crowdfunding campaign.
When the most recent war broke out between Israel and Palestine's leaders in the Gaza Strip, UC Davis Associate Professors Sven-Erik Rose and Mairaj Syed decided to confront the controversial topic head on, facilitating talks on campus and teaching a class on antisemitism and Islamophobia. Students were asked to think critically about the past and to question narratives that use stereotypes to pit people against each other.
Historian Lisa Materson’s new book, Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence (UNC Press, 2024), tells the story of an unlikely activist and radical pacifist from South Dakota who followed her conscience to Puerto Rico in the 1940s to join the independence movement.