UC Davis colleagues are involved in a new joint project with an agency in Japan to explore new ways of creating biofuels for regular use, especially for use by automobiles, trucks and jets. “Oil reserves won’t last forever,” said Oliver Fiehn, the director of the Metabolomics Research and Core Laboratories in the UC Davis Genome […]

A brand-new resident of the United States and unable to attend school without a green card, UC Davis alumnus and Taiwan native Charlie Chi, Ph.D., learned English by watching cartoons. Yet, in 2005, Chi became the co-founder and CEO of OtisMed Corporation, a company dedicated to creating and distributing orthopedic technology and hardware. Chi, who […]

On Monday night, just six hours after posting a flyer announcing prominent hip hop, rap and R&B artists Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s arrival to Davis, ASUCD Entertainment Council’s link buzzed with 556 likes and 238 shares on Facebook — a record for the site. Along with Drake and Kendrick Lamar, Entertainment Council has Steve Aoki, […]

A group of protesters held a rally on the Quad yesterday, and then marched around  campus, ending at the building that used to house the Cross Cultural Center. The students said that they plan to sleep in the building and continue occupying it. While many protesters did not want to speak for the group as […]

The transition for community college students to UC Davis may soon become a lot smoother. “It’s a shock when students transfer from community college to the university,” said Don Palm, dean of the Sacramento City College Davis Center. That is precisely what educators from both the UC and community college systems hoped to mitigate when […]

For many Davis residents, the wars of recent years are a foreign issue not affecting their daily lives. For those with close relatives serving in the military, there is a support group helping to comfort them. The Yolo Military Families group met Monday night at Black Bear Diner. The group was founded almost 10 years […]

Tonight is the Aggies at The Pub: Beat the Clock event at Gunrock Pub on campus. The event, hosted by Gunrock Pub and ASUCD, begins at 5 p.m. The price of beer increases as the night goes on and there will be a special food and drink menu. Aggies at the Pub events take place […]

Nominations for the Davis Environmental Recognition Award are due Feb. 10. Recipients will be chosen at the February Davis Natural Resources Commission meeting and Davis City Council will distribute the awards in April. Individuals, groups, businesses and nonprofit organizations are all eligible for the award. The city encourages those nominated to have gone above and […]

The grand opening of the ASUCD Aggie ReStore is today at 11 a.m. Located in the M.U., the Aggie ReStore aims to reuse things that would normally go to the landfill. The Aggie ReStore is selling items such as accessories, CDs and different student-made items. — Hannah Strumwasser

I have a hard time trusting technology companies. That doesn’t mean, mind you, that I trust Congress. It’s just that we’re conditioned to distrust the people we inevitably elect. Tech firms, by contrast, are more often the objects of our praise and wonder. They’re supposed to be on our side. But the difference between the […]

According to the California Highway Patrol (CHP), a white vehicle – possibly a sports car – struck and killed a UC Berkeley student on Highway 113 on Jan. 21. A car with a front end a little bit low to the ground hit 21-year-old Vladimir Debabov before fleeing the scene, Woodland CHP Officer Bryan Konvalin told […]

Geoff Straw became a Unitrans driver in 1985, the general manager in 2004 and is now moving on to become the executive director of regional transit in San Luis Obispo. Beginning on Jan. 30, Straw will be working in San Luis Obsipo, also a college town.  He said he feels very confident in the staff […]