Campus News

UC Davis to accept more in-state freshman, transfer students for Fall 2016. UC Davis received 86,041 undergraduate admissions applications for Fall 2016, making it the highest number of applications on campus record. The number of freshman applicants grew by 6.1 percent from last year, totaling to 68,519 applications, and transfer student applications rose by 14.2 […]

Two genetically-edited calves to not grow horns. Two gene-edited calves arrived at UC Davis in late December 2015. Named Spotty Guy and Buri, the bulls were developed in a Minnesota lab and brought to UC Davis for further study. Unlike usual dairy cattle, these two calves were born without horns. The calves were developed under […]

New learning management system allows students to receive class notifications via text, Facebook, Twitter Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph Hexter recently announced that UC Davis will replace its current learning management system (LMS) SmartSite with the new system Canvas by Instructure. Students and faculty will be able to use Canvas starting in Fall 2016, […]

UC Davis Crocker Nuclear Laboratory granted $13 million federal contract to monitor nation’s fine particles In late 2015, the U.S. government chose the UC Davis Crocker Nuclear Laboratory to be the main contractor for both of the nation’s major federal fine particle air quality monitoring networks, the National Park Service’s Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual […]

UC-wide anti-smoking campaign extends to five UC medical centers. In 2013, Dr. Elisa Tong, an assistant professor at the UC Davis Medical Center, created UC Quits, a program to combat the ongoing battle against tobacco within the UC Health System. What started as a pilot program in 2013 through the UC Davis Medical Center, UC […]

Applicants criticize extension for providing extra time to late applicants. On Nov. 29, the original deadline for University of California (UC) applications, most transfer students who were planning on attending a UC had submitted their applications to their prospective schools only to find out three days later via email that the deadline had been extended […]

Catalina Island fox population recover from ear tumor infestation caused by ear mites. Over the past few years, scientists from the UC Davis Veterinary School of Medicine (UCDVSM) have helped an endangered island fox species on California’s Catalina Island recover from a prevalence of ear tumors unique to that population. The tumors, which developed from […]

Research looks to find solution to national epidemic of firearm violence. In 2015, UC Davis School of Medicine professor Garen Wintemute donated approximately $1.3 million of his own money toward gun violence research. Wintemute, who also works as the director of the violence prevention research program at UC Davis, noted that his research looks not […]

UC schools collaborate in improving statewide water management, security In December 2015, several researchers from the University of California (UC) gathered to create the UC Water Security and Sustainability Research Initiative, an initiative which focuses on improving water management and sustainability in California. According to Graham Fogg, a UC Davis professor of hydrogeology and one […]

Divestment follows recent criticism from Afrikan Black Coalition, Black Student Unions On Dec. 31, the University of California (UC) finished selling the remaining $2 million of its direct investments in private prison corporations. This concludes the university’s most recent divestment from the GEO Group and the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), two major for-profit businesses […]

U.S. Department of Agriculture reports incident under ‘Miscellaneous’ in 2014 inspection. In a recent report by the Center for Ethical Science (CFES), the center exposed UC Davis for an incident concerning a lamb that was crushed while being transported from a UC Davis research facility in 2014. According to the inspection reports from the U.S. […]

Campus connects ‘hungry people’ with delivery drivers. Late last year, second-year business major KC Cui, along with a few friends from other universities, released an app titled Chop Chop-Delivery. The app is a peer-to-peer delivery service that provides students with easy access to foods from places like Chipotle or In-N-Out with the intention to also […]