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3.31.2008
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Lingering Bacteria Don't Indicate Chronic Lyme Disease
The bacteria that cause Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, can linger in mouse tissues long after a full round of antibiotic treatment is completed, report ... [ More ]
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3.25.2008
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More Minorities Go to College, but Many Don't Graduate
Even though the number of black and Hispanic students entering college has increased dramatically over the last 30 years, students from these groups still lag well behind white students in earning ... [ More ]
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3.25.2008
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Are Teachers' Unions Really to Blame?
Teachers' unions get most of the blame when restrictive labor contracts prevent school districts from changing teachers' working conditions. But Katharine Strunk, assistant professor of education at ... [ More ]
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3.24.2008
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Warming Could Radically Change Lake Tahoe in 10 Years
A new UC Davis study predicts that climate change will irreversibly alter water circulation in Lake Tahoe, radically changing the conditions for plants and fish in the lake -- and it could happen in ... [ More ]
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3.24.2008
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Computer Games Can Make Kids More Social, Not Less
Contrary to common education wisdom, computer games and other technologies can foster community-building, a strong sense of identity and higher-level planning even in very young students, UC Davis ... [ More ]
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3.17.2008
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Natural Selection and the Human Skull
New research led by UC Davis anthropologist Tim Weaver adds to the evidence that chance, rather than natural selection, best explains why the skulls of modern humans and ancient Neanderthals evolved ... [ More ]
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3.17.2008
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Tears on the Job
Professional women spend a significant amount of time and effort hiding tears on the job: They may run out of a meeting, hole up in an office with the door closed or hide in a bathroom stall until ... [ More ]
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3.12.2008
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Olive-Growing Short Course Offers International Perspectives
Olive experts from the United States, Spain and Italy will teach the latest techniques in growing olives for commercial olive-oil production during an April 18-19 public short-course coordinated by ... [ More ]
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3.12.2008
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California Agriculture's Huge Impact on Economy
If California were a country, it would rank fifth to ninth among the world's nations in the value of its agriculture, according to a report by the UC Agricultural Issues Center.
The unpublished ... [ More ]
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3.12.2008
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Farm Subsidies Don't Make Americans Fat
There is no evidence to support the claim that farm subsidies -- by making fattening foods relatively cheap and abundant -- contribute to obesity in the United States, according to an analysis led ... [ More ]
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3.12.2008
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Public Health Professionals Eye Land Use and Environmental Issues
Some 200 public health professionals from throughout Northern California will gather at UC Davis this week to examine the health impacts of land-use planning and environmental problems on human ... [ More ]
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3.11.2008
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FIRST Robotics Competition Returns to Campus
The Davis/Sacramento FIRST Robotics Regional Competition returns to the Pavilion at the UC Davis Activities and Recreation Center March 20-22. Thursday is a practice day, and competition rounds will ... [ More ]
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3.10.2008
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Sustained by Music Through Hard Times, a Davis Family Gives Back
A Davis family with a long history of supporting music, science, Japanese-American civil rights and other humanitarian causes has donated $1 million to the UC Davis Department of Music to help build ... [ More ]
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3.7.2008
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Scheduled Activities Resume After Students Safely Return to Residence Halls
11:30 A.M. -- All scheduled activities continued today at UC Davis after the events of the past two days, when 455 students were evacuated and explosives were safely removed from a campus residence ... [ More ]
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3.7.2008
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Huge Map Focus of Workshop on Bike, Transit Future
The public will use a 600-square-foot map of UC Davis to help plot the future of bicycling and public transit on campus at a workshop next week.
The workshop, held in two identical sessions, will ... [ More ]
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3.6.2008
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Students Return to Rooms After Explosives Found; Campus Operations Continue as Scheduled
12:50 P.M. -- About 455 UC Davis students, nearly all freshmen, were returning to their residence halls around noon today after being safely evacuated Wednesday night when police found explosive ... [ More ]
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3.6.2008
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Breath of the Ocean Links Fish Feeding, Reefs, Climate
An ocean odor that affects global climate also gathers reef fish to feed as they "eavesdrop" on events that might lead them to food.
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is given off by algae and ... [ More ]
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3.6.2008
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Wandering Albatrosses Follow Their Nose
The first study of how individual wandering albatrosses find food shows that the birds rely heavily on their sense of smell. The birds can pick up a scent from several miles away, U.S. and French ... [ More ]
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3.6.2008
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Public Lecture: Brain Awareness Week
March 11, Tuesday -- George R. Mangun, professor of psychology and neurology and director of the Center for Mind and Brain at UC Davis will give a public lecture on "How the Brain Creates Human ... [ More ]
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3.6.2008
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MRI/PET Scanner Combo
Two kinds of body imaging -- positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) -- have been combined for the first time in a single scanner.
MRI scans provide exquisite ... [ More ]
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3.6.2008
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Explosives Found in Dorm Room; 455 Evacuated Safely; Student Arrested; Campus Operations Continue as Scheduled
8:40 A.M. -- About 455 freshman students were safely evacuated from a UC Davis campus dormitory last night after police found explosive materials in a student's room.
All campus activities will ... [ More ]
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3.6.2008
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Students Safely Return to Housing; Explosives Removed From Campus; Investigation Continues
5:10 P.M. -- Following an overnight evacuation, about 455 UC Davis students returned to their residence halls at noon today, and explosive materials found in a student's room were safely removed by ... [ More ]
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3.3.2008
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Event Shines Light on Health of Haves and Have Nots
Socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health will be in the spotlight as public health professionals gather Thursday, March 13, at the University of California, Davis, for a preview ... [ More ]
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