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Monthly Archives - August 2011

August 2011 Archives

UC Davis approves sustainable agriculture major

Campus NewsAugust 15, 2011
UC Davis approved a new major called sustainable agriculture and food systems for the upcoming Fall quarter.

Tech tips

Science & TechnologyAugust 15, 2011
Every time my phone lights up with a text I have to be careful not to actually open the text.

Q&A with James Hildreth

Science & TechnologyAugust 15, 2011
James Hildreth, immunologist and former professor at Tennessee’s Meharry Medical College, started his post as the new dean of the College of Biological Sciences this month. As a prominent AIDS researcher, Hildreth’s work focuses on how HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, penetrates the cell and promotes infection.

Police Briefs

City NewsAugust 15, 2011
People in glass houses; Davis effect; Rent is too damn high; Missing key; Drive ‘n dash; What phone did she call on?

News-in-Brief: Yudof comments on fee hikes, financial options for UC students

Campus NewsAugust 15, 2011
University of California President Mark Yudof recently issued a letter to parents and students regarding the recent fee increase that was approved at the July UC Regents meeting.

News-in-Brief: Solar panels coming to south entry parking lot

Campus NewsAugust 15, 2011
UC Davis is installing 1,200 solar panels in Parking Lot 1 on campus.

Mr. Avalos goes to Washington

FeaturesAugust 15, 2011
As an incoming first year student hoping to become a pediatrician, Edgar Avalos knew he wanted to help people. But after a brief stint taking lower-division biology classes, the now-senior international relations and English double major realized his future was closer to his roots.

Inside the Game with …

SportsAugust 15, 2011
UC Davis baseball is rebuilding, and that process begins with new head coach Matt Vaughn.

Football season preview

SportsAugust 15, 2011
Last year, win or lose, the focus was on the Aggie football teams’ youth and inexperience.

Federal loans not immediately impacted by U.S. credit rating

City NewsAugust 15, 2011
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) downgraded the U.S. credit rating on Aug. 5. This has since ignited a flurry of panic that the downgrade may lead the country to another recession.

David Breaux shares his ‘Experience with Compassion’

City NewsAugust 15, 2011
In a modest room at the Davis Community Church on Thursday night, a group of familiar and friendly faces gathered for a single purpose: to hear the story about one man and his journey in discovering compassion.

Computer-aided mammography not helpful to radiologists

Science & TechnologyAugust 15, 2011
In a new UC Davis study looking at 1.6 million mammograms taken across 90 facilities, Joshua Fenton and his co-authors found that computer-aided detection (CAD) in mammography actually increases false-positive readings, without significantly increasing detection rates of invasive breast cancers.