Flowers are the iconic Valentine’s Day gift. If a person gets nothing else for their significant other, especially since college students are usually on a budget prohibiting expensive dinner reservations or shiny jewelry, the couple will probably still exchange flowers. I’d like to encourage you to look closer at those flowers. Since this is being […]

When I was but a youngin’, a first year Aggie, I was not terribly optimistic about the state of our student government. You could say that I drank the kool-aid by denouncing the corruption, inefficacy and self-righteousness of the Associated Students of UC Davis. Of course, I couldn’t tell you what ASUCD did or who […]

This last Sunday, UC Davis hosted its first Biodiversity Museum Day. “We haven’t had a turn out like this since Picnic Day,” said Lynn Kimsley, professor and director for the Bohart Museum of Entomology, “I would like to make this an annual event.” UC Davis opened up four of its biological collections to public exhibition. […]

Normally, The Aggie does not run these Inside the Game stories on student-athletes twice in their career. Yet, seeing that this Aggie was last featured in the mid 90s, we made an exception. Head Coach Jennifer Gross is quite possibly one of the best players to ever grace the women’s basketball program at UC Davis, […]

Operational for just over a month, the new Student Community Center (SCC) is boasting strong student usage of the center’s numerous services and study areas. Centrally located on the corner of Hutchison Drive and California Avenue, the SCC offers students a wide variety of community shaping facilities, programs and quiet places to study. Extra student […]

“Build your own legacy” can be read on the white and blue signs and banners that have sprung up about UC Davis’ campus, with an unfamiliar set of Greek letters: Pi Kappa Phi. This quarter, Pi Kappa Phi alumni who work for the national organization visited UC Davis to recruit students for the new chapter. […]

Do you know where you’re living next year? On Thursday, ASUCD City/County Affairs is putting on Housing Day 2012 in hopes of connecting students with various housing options and relieve the stress of apartment hunting. “Living in Davis, students are very fortunate in that there is never a shortage of housing. Students are at a […]

Few can say that by age 20 they’ve lived in a house with seven strangers, watched themselves cry on national TV and flown to the Dominican Republic three weeks into a school year to compete for $150,000. But junior psychology major Priscilla Mendez says that being a part of MTV’s “Real World: San Diego” in […]

Jack Leng, junior history and design double major The Aggie: What are you wearing? Leng: “A double-breasted wool coat with epaulets, a funnel-neck from All-Saint’s, a random white shirt, $2 jeans from China and Steve Madden leather boots.” How did you decide what to wear today? “I like to look as if I take class […]

Thomas Schoener and David Spiller, both professors in the UC Davis Evolution and Ecology Department, are among the co-authors of a new study appearing in Science magazine that provides evidence for an evolutionary phenomenon called the “founder effect.” The founder effect is the evolutionary theory that a small number of “founders,” or initial members of a […]

Over the past 60 years, E. coli has been the primary model organism for gene sequencing and recombinant DNA experiments. While the majority of these E. coli strains are harmless, there exist a few strains that, when present in the human body, cause severe food poisoning and intestinal havoc. UC Davis is a member of […]

Considering all the stress we get from recessions to tuition, it is safe to say that college is the insane asylum for the academically gifted. Unfortunately, when it comes to stress, keeping a buckle on your waist line can be just as difficult as holding onto your marbles. All too often, nutritional health is forgotten […]