Michael makes a living by pushing tiny blue pills – but he isn’t a doctor. At the age of 20, Michael is a UC Davis sophomore who sells Adderall, an amphetamine formulation prescribed for Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), to other college students.

Who to watch: The outside shooting of junior Kasey Riecks will be key for the Aggies in their upcoming games.

It’s hard to figure out when Barbara Nazarewicz, senior landscape architecture major, has time to sleep. Between her multiple landscaping projects and leadership positions it seems that Nazarewicz is always on the go.

For the majority of us, life takes on a series of stages in which high school is followed by college and then (hopefully) a job and (maybe) marriage. However, for some, life throws a few unexpected curve balls and that order gets a little mixed up.

UC Davis is no stranger to harsh economic times. With an ailing economy and rising tuition, there is an increasing number of struggling students. A new ASUCD unit aims to help.

Most people understand, or at least loosely grasp the idea of our brains’ functions in everyday life. The brain regulates our heartbeat, our breathing, pain and emotional responses and contains the genetic blueprint for our personalities – the “nature” that determines how “nurture” is interpreted.

In the past two years the rock wall inside the Activities and Recreation Center has seen a dramatic increase in use, employees said.

Who to watch: Senior Todd Lowenthal has been a defensive catalyst for the Aggies.

The first thing to greet a visitor to Jeff Ross-Ibarra’s office is the corn. Ross-Ibarra, a plant geneticist at UC Davis, keeps 50 or so dried corncobs on a shelf by the door, arrayed in a neat grid that stretches from wall to wall. But what’s more impressive than the quantity is the variety: there are long cobs, short ones, red, pink, black, white, pointy, smooth, pinecone-shaped and log-shaped ones, a popcorn cob and even some grassy stalks that look like weeds with tiny kernels buried in hard shells. And these stunningly diverse ears all belong to a single species. All of them, even the round black ear and the popcorn, could interbreed.

In an effort to continue providing fun and affordable events for the UC Davis student community, Entertainment Council has begun showing classic fan-favorite movies on Friday nights in Chem 194.

A dangerous trend that mixes alcohol abuse and eating disorder behaviors is becoming more popular among college students. Coined as “drunkorexia,” those who practice it sacrifice calories for a better buzz.

One of my favorite stories about scientific mystery involves a flock of pigeons. Pigeon poop, to be exact.