A recent decision in Virginia restores voting rights based on a law from 1870 that sought to prevent discrimination by the state. Legal briefs written by UC Davis experts provided the historical groundwork for that decision.
While structural racism can be measured across an entire neighborhood, city or county, its impact on people’s lives might be more localized. A recent study in sociology found that people most impacted by structural racism died more than two years sooner than the average American adult.
Federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis is part of a larger history of government violence against citizens and non-citizens alike. However, today’s technology, rhetoric and legal tensions are changing what that violence means for society.
On January 27, a UC Davis Global Migration Center expert panel discussed Solito, the 2026 UC Davis Campus Community Book Project Selection, and how different research disciplines explore complex questions about immigration in the U.S.
Annaliese Franz and her lab are designing therapeutic molecules of the future. Through organic synthesis and catalysis, the team is building and improving molecules with therapeutic potential. Some current projects include developing a new nanoparticle technology for livestock vaccines and improving treatments for neurodegenerative disorders like epilepsy.
If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve been bit by a mosquito. But what do you know about these creatures beyond them being perceived pesky annoyances? At the January Davis Science Cafe, neurobiologist Lisa Baik explained what can lead to mosquito bites and various ways to deter these pesky bites.
The COVID-19 pandemic was a global crisis that showed the fragility of democracy in Taiwan, where misinformation threatened the three pillars that define the nation’s government and civil society.
While not nearly as prevalent or long-lived in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, increasing methane emissions are a problem for the environment. Responsible for about one-third of the Earth’s warming, methane is about 80 times more powerful in terms of global heating than carbon dioxide. Oceanographer Tessa Hill talks about what can be done to mitigate this.
UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids — the building blocks of proteins — into molecules that are similar in structure to psychedelics and mimic their interaction with the brain.
The U.S. poverty rate puts a number on the share of households who struggle to make ends meet. The way we measure poverty dates back to the 1960s and provides a starting point for building an effective safety net that lifts people out of poverty.
