A late comeback leads to a 3-2 victory for the Aggie’s home opener Hundreds of people crowded the bleachers on the windy night of Thursday, Oct. 6 at Aggie Soccer Field to support the UC Davis women’s soccer team’s Big West Conference home opener against the CSU Fullerton Titans. Coming off of a tie in […]

A preview of upcoming games Women’s soccer (Aggie Soccer Field) Thursday, Oct. 13 at 3 p.m. vs. UC Irvine Sunday, Oct. 16 at 1 p.m. vs. UC Riverside Today’s Oct. 13 game is the first of three back-to-back home games for the UC Davis women’s soccer team. The last home matchup against CSU Fullerton a […]

UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain launches The Cochlear Implant project, seeks advancement in auditory, linguistic communications Two out of 1,000 children born in the United States every year have detectable hearing loss in one or both ears, according to the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). Researchers at the UC […]

Becky Mandelbaum wins prize for her book, Bad Kansas UC Davis creative writing master’s student Becky Mandelbaum was recently awarded the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, a prize that has helped launch the careers of many renowned writers. “My collection, Bad Kansas, is a book of stories primarily set in Kansas,” Mandelbaum said. […]

How people, plants and the planet work together Sustainability can be tricky to define — especially as it relates to sustainable animal agriculture. Capital Public Radio recently conducted a study in which they asked grocery shoppers what sustainability meant to them. Although the answers varied greatly, one common trend among all the answers was the […]

UC Davis makes top 10 in Sierra Club’s cool school rankings for fifth year in a row UC Davis has once again ranked in the top 10 of Sierra Magazine’s “cool school” rankings for sustainable universities and colleges. Out of 202 competitors across the nation, UC Davis ranked at number eight. The Sierra Club, a […]

Protests erupt at statue unveiling on International Day of Non-Violence During a weekly excursion into downtown — whether for the farmer’s market or to get some much-needed shopping — passersby might notice a notable new addition to Central Park: a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi. The statue, which showcases Gandhi mid-step and covered with a […]

Jennifer Garcia named Interim Chief during search for new police chief After 14 years at The UC Davis Police Department, UC Davis Police Chief Matthew Carmichael resigned from his position at the end of August in order to move to the University of Oregon. Jennifer Garcia was named the new interim police chief in the […]

UC Davis in top ten public universities for the U.S. News and World Report and Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Ranking UC Davis ranked tenth in U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of the top public universities in the nation, released on Sept. 12. The university tied with UC San Diego among national […]

Quality of UC education being compromised by increased enrollment The University of California (UC) Board of Regents approved UC President Janet Napolitano’s plan last fall to increase enrollment of California undergraduates in the UC system by 10,000 over the next three years. The plan, part of the deal that Napolitano made with the California State […]

Davis band talks shoegaze, laziness and their new EP “We all live together — and you would think that’s a good thing — but because there’s no scheduled practice, and people don’t have to be somewhere, we get kind of lazy,” explained Mitchell Rotter-Sieren, the drummer for Davis band Starrsha. “Lazy” came up surprisingly frequently […]