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10.31.2008
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In, Out or a Visual Illusion?
Great news for those who always question a referee's call during a tennis match. You might not be so crazy after all.
New research, led by David Whitney, associate professor at the UC Davis ... [ More ]
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10.30.2008
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Troublesome, Non-native Squirrels Will Get Birth-control Shots
Before someone gets bitten, or neighboring farmlands are invaded, UC Davis officials will launch a birth-control research program to curb a campus population explosion of non-native tree ... [ More ]
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10.30.2008
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Research Funds Top Half-billion Dollars for Fourth Year
UC Davis received a record $586,181,880 in research funds for the 2007-8 fiscal year that ended June 30, the fourth consecutive year that research funding exceeded the half-billion-dollar mark. This ... [ More ]
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10.29.2008
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Wildlife Experts Reflect on Anniversary of Big SF Bay Oil Spill
One year after leading the second-largest rescue and rehabilitation of oiled seabirds in recent California history, UC Davis wildlife health experts are busy preparing for the next major oil ... [ More ]
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10.27.2008
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Western Cooling Challenge Heats Up
An impressive list of cooling-industry leaders have signed on to a UC Davis program designed to slash electricity use and peak electricity demand by rooftop air conditioners in the western United ... [ More ]
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10.27.2008
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Sperling Keynotes International Conference on Electric Cars in London
Cars around the world will one day be propelled by electric motors, UC Davis transportation expert Daniel Sperling told a meeting of international transportation experts and policymakers in London ... [ More ]
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10.27.2008
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Speaker: The Changing Delta, Nov. 5
On Nov. 5 (Wednesday), geology professor Jeffrey Mount discusses recent events shaping the future of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the hub of California's water supply system, providing water to ... [ More ]
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10.24.2008
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Bus Service Celebrates Terminal, 50 Million Riders
Oct. 30, Thursday -- Unitrans -- the student-run bus service that has helped move UC Davis and the city of Davis for 40 years -- is inviting its passengers and other fans to celebrate two ... [ More ]
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10.24.2008
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UC Davis Hosts Polling Place for Early Voting
Oct. 27 to 31 -- Yolo County voters can cast their vote early at UC Davis. The county elections office, in partnership with the Graduate Student Association, will operate an early polling place in ... [ More ]
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10.22.2008
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Recent Honors
Gary Snyder, professor emeritus of English, is the winner of the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which honors a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. ... [ More ]
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10.22.2008
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UC Davis Experts on Proposition 2
The following list of UC Davis faculty members are available to comment on Proposition 2 on California's fall ballot.
Poultry welfare
Joy Mench, an animal science professor and director of ... [ More ]
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10.21.2008
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Study Shines Light on How Red Blood Cells Control Blood Pressure
A new technique sheds light on how red blood cells regulate blood pressure in small blood vessels.
A clear understanding of blood-pressure regulation could help development of treatments for ... [ More ]
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10.21.2008
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New DNA Tool Probes Rice Genome
A new tool for investigating the rice genome has been developed by researchers at UC Davis led by Pamela Ronald, professor of plant pathology. The inexpensive, publicly-available rice DNA microarray ... [ More ]
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10.20.2008
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What Do Obama and Snapple Iced Tea Have in Common?
What do presidential candidate Barack Obama and Snapple Iced Tea have in common? Patricia Turner, professor of African American and African studies at the University of California, Davis, will ... [ More ]
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10.20.2008
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Group Bragging Betrays Insecurity, Study Finds
From partisans at a political rally to fans at a football game, groups that engage in pompous displays of collective pride may be trying to mask insecurity and a low social status, suggests new ... [ More ]
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10.20.2008
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Study: Wildlife Need More Complex Travel Plans
A new UC Davis study says that people trying to help nature by designing corridors for wildlife need to think more naturally.
"Human beings tend to think in terms of regular, symmetrical ... [ More ]
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10.20.2008
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Police, Student Health Center Conduct Lockdown Drill
The UC Davis Police Department and Cowell Student Health Center will exercise the student health center's new lockdown procedure that is serving as a model for UC Davis departments and other ... [ More ]
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10.17.2008
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Speaker: 25 Years After the Grenada Invasion
Oct. 22, Wednesday -- Stephen Zunes, professor of politics and international studies at the University of San Francisco will compare the current U.S. invasion of Iraq to the now 25 year old invasion ... [ More ]
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10.17.2008
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Energy Conservation in California: A Commissioner's View
Oct. 20, Monday -- Arthur Rosenfeld of the California Energy Commission will talk about the issues of energy conservation in California. His talk will begin at 4 p.m. in 66 Roessler Hall and is open ... [ More ]
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10.17.2008
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Post-election Analysis
Nov. 12, Wednesday -- UC Davis experts will offer post-election analysis at a free lunch-hour talk, "2008 Presidential Election: How We Got Here and What We Do Now."
The experts are Erik ... [ More ]
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10.16.2008
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UC Davis on iTunes U Offers Courses, Speakers, Fiction Readings
UC Davis courses, teaching insights and student fiction are just some of the rich recordings that the public can download for free from UC Davis on iTunes U in partnership with Apple.
The iTunes ... [ More ]
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10.14.2008
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UC Davis Experts on Fall Ballot Initiatives
The following UC Davis faculty are available to comment on Propositions 2, 4, 5, 8 and 11 on California's fall ballot, as well as on the initiative process itself.
Propositions and the initiative ... [ More ]
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10.13.2008
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Public Lecture: The Individual or the Group
Oct. 21, Tuesday -- Physicist, pacifist and independent thinker Freeman Dyson will give a free, public lecture, "The Individual or the Group?" at 7 p.m. in the AGR room of the Buehler Alumni and ... [ More ]
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10.13.2008
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Risque Subjects and Risky Politics
Oct. 14, Tuesday -- Back before the Internet, how did an ordinary person learn about risque subjects and risky politics? Through "little blue books," published for a nickel apiece, which sold ... [ More ]
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10.13.2008
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Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race
Nov. 6, Thursday -- Illegal immigrant, tax burden, job stealer. Patriot, family-oriented, hard worker, model consumer. Since becoming the largest minority group in the U.S., Latinos have been caught ... [ More ]
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10.13.2008
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UC Davis Experts: Gay Marriage
The following University of California, Davis, faculty are available to comment on legal, psychological and cultural aspects of same-sex marriage. The Connecticut Supreme Court on Oct. 10 paved the ... [ More ]
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10.10.2008
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Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science Opens
Fittingly surrounded by olive trees and an edible garden, hundreds of dignitaries, visitors and members of the university community gathered today to celebrate the grand opening of the Robert ... [ More ]
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10.9.2008
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Symposium to Explore Economic Impact of Patent Reform
Top patent law experts will explore the probable effects of patent law reform on innovation and the economy during a daylong symposium at the UC Davis School of Law. The symposium, titled "The ... [ More ]
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10.9.2008
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UC Davis Improves Handling of 9-1-1 Calls From Cells
Emergency help is closer for many cell phone users who make a 9-1-1 call on the University of California, Davis, campus.
Cell sites around the Davis campus will now route wireless 9-1-1 calls to ... [ More ]
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10.9.2008
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Faculty Panel: Government Reaction to the Economic Crisis
Oct. 10, Friday -- UC Davis faculty members from the fields of law and economics will discuss the recent turmoil in the financial markets and the government's responses to it from noon to 1:30 p.m. ... [ More ]
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10.9.2008
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On the Eve of the Election: Where Are We?
Oct. 28, Tuesday -- Byron Shafer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin and one of the most astute students of the coalitions that make for presidencies and Congressional ... [ More ]
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10.9.2008
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Faculty Panel: Understanding the Financial Crisis
Oct. 17, Friday -- UC Davis faculty members from the fields of economics, management and history will share their perspectives on the current economic crisis from 12:10 p.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. ... [ More ]
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10.9.2008
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The New Deal 75 Years Later
Nov. 13, Thursday -- With comparisons between our own time and the crisis that launched the Great Depression now common, a panel of scholars will assess current knowledge about Franklin Roosevelt's ... [ More ]
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10.7.2008
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UC Davis Gets an $860,000 birthday Gift from Wayne Thiebaud
The Richard L. Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collection at the University of California, Davis, has received a gift of 20 Wayne Thiebaud hand-worked prints with an estimated value of $860,000, campus ... [ More ]
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10.7.2008
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Fall Festival Celebrates 100 Years of UC Davis
One hundred years after the first students took up residence at the University of California, Davis, yet another class has arrived: the Centennial Class.
That calls for a celebration, one the ... [ More ]
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10.6.2008
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UC Davis Honors Arts Patron Barbara Jackson
Arts patron Barbara K. Jackson has been awarded the UC Davis Medal, the highest tribute bestowed by the university. Jackson, one of two namesakes of the Mondavi Center's Barbara K. and W. Turrentine ... [ More ]
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10.2.2008
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Design, Construction Team Selected for Next Phase of Robert Mondavi Institute
A team of architects, engineers and builders has been selected to design and construct the building that will house a teaching and research winery as well as a brewery and food science laboratory ... [ More ]
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10.1.2008
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Campus Crime Report for 2007 Mixed
Crimes reported in calendar year 2007 on property owned or controlled by UC Davis increased in five of nine key categories and decreased in two, according to statistics prepared in compliance with ... [ More ]
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