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Awards geared toward students of color, students from underserved communities At the end of last year, the French Embassy in Washington D.C. gave the UC Davis Office of Global Affairs a grant of $19,386, while the UC Davis Study Abroad Club won a $2,000 grant from French Mission for Culture and Higher Education, located in […]

Tuition to increase by $336 On Thursday, Jan. 26, the UC Regents voted to raise the tuition for all of the 10 UC campuses. The 2017-18 tuition will increase by $282 and the student services fee will increase by $54 — a $336 increase overall. It will be the first tuition increase since 2010. “It […]

Kevin Samy of Forbes’ 2016 “30 under 30” list brings Dog Whistle event to UC Davis Kevin Samy, former speechwriter to the Obama Administration Secretary of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Pentagon and special assistant to the Secretary of Energy, spoke at UC Davis on Jan. 13 as part of his Dog Whistle event. […]

ASUCD held its first senate meeting of Winter Quarter on Thursday, Jan. 1. ASUCD Vice President Abhay Sandhu called the meeting to order at 6:10 p.m. Senator Sam Park was absent and Senator Ricardo Martinez arrived late. Senator Irveen Grewal was elected senate president pro-tempore. The president pro-tempore is the official representative of the ASUCD […]

Police chief provides information about safety, Unitrans asks riders to remain patient throughout delays  A deluge of winter rain recently hit the UC Davis campus — in the period of Jan. 1 to Jan. 18, 7.83 inches of rain were measured in the nearby Sacramento Executive Airport according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration […]

Protesters demand that Trump, UC system support divestment of fossil fuels Approximately 30 protesters gathered at the Memorial Union flagpole on Monday Jan. 23 and marched through the Quad toward Mrak Hall to protest President Donald Trump’s climate denial and the university’s investments in fossil fuel. The protest included chants such as “UC Davis not […]

GreenMetric names UC Davis the greenest university overall The University of Indonesia’s seventh annual Greenmetric ranking has declared UC Davis the world’s most sustainable university. By using environmental conservation and carbon footprint reduction criteria, UC Davis achieved an aggregate score of 8,396 out of 10,000, while the two runner-ups scored 8,079 and 7,658. UC Davis […]

UC Davis-led institute one of five national transportation centers awarded under the University Transportation Centers program The U.S. Department of Transportation announced in early December that it had selected the National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST), led by the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, to receive a five-year $14 million federal grant to work […]

Former plans paused in light of Katehi’s resignation Prior to her resignation as UC Davis chancellor, Linda P.B. Katehi laid out tentative plans to extend UC Davis into Sacramento. The plans were brought to a halt during the chancellor search process. In 2014, Katehi had begun plans to integrate UC Davis into Sacramento and add […]

Feminist Research Institute nominates Linda Katehi for director position amid criticism Linda P.B. Katehi, the former UC Davis chancellor, turned down a nomination this past December for a position to lead the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute (FRI). “As I wrote to the Board of the Institute in my resignation letter, while I was honored […]

The first endowed brewer will be Joe Williams Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. owners Ken Grossman and Katie Gonser gave $2 million to support UC Davis’ brewing science program. The brewing programs at UC Davis are the only North American programs accredited by the Institute of Brewing & Distilling in London. The individual selected as Sierra […]

250 institutions ask new administration to address challenges of climate change Last month, Interim Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter and other University of California (UC) leaders signed a letter urging President-elect Donald Trump and Congress to take action against climate change. The letter, compiled by Boston-based nonprofit Second Nature, focuses on three main proposals. The first […]