This week we’re going to talk about sauce (or as I like to pronounce it, “sowse”). Often, sauces bring flavors to life, help mix two otherwise incompatible flavors or, in more dire cases, mask the bland or unpalatable thing that somehow ended up on your plate. Thanks to Cholula, I’ve been able to get through […]

UC Davis students use Tilt, Entertainment Council as mediums to bring musical artists to campus UC Davis students unwind from responsibilities such as classes, extracurriculars and other routine activities through many platforms. However, one of the more popular ways lies in looking forward to and attending concerts, a method that currently fills Facebook with a […]

Math Association of America holds annual conference at UC Davis with special art exhibit When an outsider thinks of the math world, images of bowties and pencil protectors might come to mind, but on Saturday, Feb. 26, at the Math Association of America (MAA) conference, Davis’ math world took a turn for the wonky. Hosted […]

City council approves 10 percent tax on recreational marijuana dispensaries to be placed on June ballot On Feb. 16, the Davis City Council unanimously approved an ordinance to place a tax on marijuana dispensaries on the June 7 ballot. The proposal to place a business license tax of 10 percent on recreational marijuana dispensaries was […]

In late February, Nugget Markets purchased Sonoma’s Glen Ellen Village Market and Sonoma Market On Feb. 24, Woodland’s Nugget Markets announced that they would be purchasing Sonoma-based Glen Ellen Village Market and Sonoma Market. The deal is expected to close on March 31. Don Shone opened Glen Ellen Village Market in 1963 and was joined […]

Katehi under fire for accepting roles on two for-profit companies, DeVry Education Group, John Wiley & Sons UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi has stepped down from the board of the DeVry Education Group, a for-profit company currently being sued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), after facing criticism from Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) and […]

Instructor Ricardo Castro spearheads creative engineering class focusing on the physics of superheroes Have you ever wondered how Spider-Man’s spidey-suit gives him the ability to crawl on walls? Or what makes Captain America’s shield so resistant? Or how Tony Stark created his Iron Man super-suit? A new UC Davis course, Materials Science and Engineering (EMS) […]

App helps students stay organized every quarter, keep track of events and GPA UC Davis second-year computer science major Nick Doherty recently relaunched Study Cal, an educational app to help students organize their academic schedules and to keep track of their GPAs. The app is free and available for the iPhone and iPad. It has […]

UC Davis ranks behind five other UC campuses Six University of California (UC) campuses, including UC Davis, were rated in the top 30 public universities by the business journal Buffalo Business First. UC Davis ranked at 29, falling behind five other UC’s: Los Angeles, Berkeley, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Irvine. “I enjoy the fact […]

An average score of a C was attributed to all nine UC campuses The University of California Student Association (UCSA) recently conducted a mental health evaluation at all nine of the UC campuses. Each campus was graded on an A through F scale, based on questions that relate to accessibility, diversity of staff and outreach […]

Oldest Davis a cappella group takes to the stage alongside The Spokes,  Jhankaar and UCSC’s Acquired The Lounge Lizards, one of Davis’ student a cappella groups, will be hosting its annual “No Instruments Attached” showcase on March 11 in the Sciences Lecture Hall. The showcase normally takes place around the end of Winter Quarter, and […]

The Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden once said: “I am beginning to lose patience with my personal relations. They are not deep and they are not cheap.” Auden’s quote may sound like the lyrical cynicism of a grumpy recluse, but it points out some hard truths about friendship that some people are hesitant to realize. […]