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Yearly Archives - 2012

2012 Archives

Biodiversity Museum Day highlights campus collections

Front page storyFebruary 15, 2012
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. […]

Inside the game with…

SportsFebruary 15, 2012
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, […]

Newly opened SCC popular with student body

Campus NewsFebruary 15, 2012
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 […]

New fraternity to open on campus

FeaturesFebruary 15, 2012
“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. […]

ASUCD City/County Affairs to host Housing Day Thursday

Campus NewsFebruary 15, 2012
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 […]

Priscilla Mendez competes on MTV’s “The Challenge”

FeaturesFebruary 15, 2012
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 […]

Campus Chic

Campus NewsFebruary 15, 2012
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 […]

Evolutionary “founder effect” detected

Science & TechnologyFebruary 15, 2012
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 […]

UC Davis fights back against food poisoning

Science & TechnologyFebruary 15, 2012
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 […]

Column: Meals for sanity

OpinionFebruary 15, 2012
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 […]

California community colleges crack down on casual students

City NewsFebruary 15, 2012
California Community Colleges (CCC) Chancellor Jack Scott presented Student Success Task Force recommendations to the Board of Governors of the CCC in its January 2012 meeting. These changes would allow transfer and graduation rates to improve. According to the CCC Director of Communications Paige Marlatt Dorr, the CCC Chancellor’s Office is moving toward a phased-in, […]

Olive Drive fence poses an inconvenient change for some local residents

City NewsFebruary 15, 2012
Ever tried crossing the railroad tracks near the Amtrak station to get to the other side to see friends or to get a haircut? Well, times have changed and so has this crossing. Since September 2011, Union Pacific (UP) has constructed a 3,800 foot long fence stretching three miles east starting from Richards Boulevard. Due […]