Rachel Goldstein, 2010 alumna in international relations, researcher and coordinator at the Center for Regional Change, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science The Aggie: What are you wearing? Goldstein: “The booties are from Nordstrom. I’m wearing J Brand mid-rise capri jeans in ‘cafe’ and my shirt is from American Apparel. My watch is Casio and […]

Carlos P. from Honduras was abandoned by his mother when they lost their home and she fled to the United States. He stayed with his grandmother until she passed away in bed next to him. Carlos’ historically absent father came to pick him up at the funeral, but only a week later his dad was […]

Exhausted but exhilarated, the newly reigning National Champion UC Davis’ Women’s Club lacrosse team walked past a sign that read, “I learned to win by learning to lose.” “I feel like that quote really summed up our season,” said freshman goalkeeper Amy Corstorphine. A few weeks ago, UC Davis did not even know if they […]

The date April 16, 2010 will forever be remembered as the day that athletics changed forever at UC Davis. On that day, due to a $1.4 million budget deficit, four sports — men’s wrestling, men’s indoor track, men’s swimming and women’s rowing — were permanently cut by the university. With two years passing since that fateful day, […]

Our technological prowess is increasing every day, but the machines we use are still limited by the knowledge that the designers put into them. Researchers have started experimenting with a branch of computer science called “machine learning,” where computers can learn and adapt. The name evokes sinister Terminator imagery, but researchers at UC San Diego […]

Last July a NASA-sponsored spacecraft called “Dawn” slipped into orbit about the first of its planned destinations — the asteroid Vesta, which is the second-largest asteroid in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. About 5 percent of meteorites recovered after falling to earth are believed to have come from Vesta’s surface. The Asteroid Belt […]

A new study by UC San Francisco researchers indicates that the drug varenicline, a drug used to help stop smoking, can be used to reduce drinking. Varenicline, commonly known by the brand name Chantix, has been FDA-approved since 2006 for helping people to stop smoking, but only recently did the researchers theorize that the drug […]

Imagine that a fire has just devastated a small area of forest. Trees have burned to the ground, leaving stumps and cracked trunks. All of the small bushes or grasses are completely blackened. What’s left? Tiny seeds. The healing of the forest is partially accomplished by these seeds that only germinate after a fire. When […]

With summer vacation coming up, my life is about to lose some structure. I won’t have class, or homework, or a weekly column, or have to go grocery shopping. Until I find a job, I will mostly be doing things I want to do, like reading and watching TV. Yet when I’m asked by one […]

Witness reports collaborating students A student in a philosophy class was referred to Student Judicial Affairs (SJA) for allegedly collaborating on an exam. A witness told the instructor that he had heard a group of students discussing how they were going to cheat before the class began. During the exam, the students sat together in […]

“I wanna be a billionaire, so freakin bad … Buy all of the things I never had …” A billion dollars. Do any of us know what that really is? I mean, on paper, it’s $1,000,000,000. The number one followed by nine zeros. If you can actually conceptualize one billion dollars in your mind, hats […]

Last quarter saw the inception of ASUCD’s Entrepreneurship Fund, a new $6,000 grant established to support undergraduate business ventures and promote innovation among the undergraduate class. The program runs on a two-quarter system in which winning applicants are picked from a diverse pool of business proposals and can be allocated up to $1,500 in funding. […]