Lidia Wolday didn’t see herself as someone who could do research when she arrived at UC Davis. A first-generation student, she had just transferred from a community college. This year she graduates with new confidence from her experiences conducting and presenting her own academic research.
In "CHE 125 — Advanced Methods in Physical Chemistry," undergraduate students apply advanced theory and laboratory techniques to personal research projects that they complete in a 10-week time frame
Increasing diversity among faculty in higher education has become a major priority within the University of California. A summer program led by the Center for Poverty and Inequality Research hosted CSU undergraduates from across the state to help clear a pathway for them to pursue advanced degrees.
Five students from the College of Letters and Science were awarded the Norma J. Lang Prize for Undergraduate Information Research. Their work spans multiple disciplines across the prize category of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.
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.
Brooke Morey was recognized as the top graduating senior at UC Davis during the commencements at Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center June 14 to 16. She was awarded the University Medal
The Department of Asian American Studies, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, and Department of African and African American Studies each will receive $100,000 in funding as part of a new set of grants from the Mellon Foundation. The grants recognize the importance of studying race, ethnic, gender and sexuality.
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.
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.
A program that gets students into labs as early as their first year at UC Davis transforms lives — leading many to pursue careers in research. Accelerating Success by Providing Intensive Research Experience, or ASPIRE, has begun reaching out to a wider pool of students. “We wanted to find the students who, given this opportunity, would go the farthest relative to where they started,” says co-founder Steve Luck, Distinguished Professor of Psychology.
