Campus News

Human Rights Campaign Foundation recognizes medical center for strides in LGBT healthcare The UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento was recently recognized as a leader in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) healthcare equality by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF) for the fifth consecutive year. The recognition, which is part of the foundation’s annual […]

Center part of federal initiative to find solutions in food security On Oct. 28, UC Davis launched a $17 million U.S.-Pakistan Food and Agriculture Center. The five-year project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, will help faculty and graduate students to study and perform research at UC Davis and the University of Agriculture, […]

New farm houses 150 chickens, completely student-built ‘Eggmobile’ On Nov. 19, UC Davis unveiled a new 4.5-acre pastured poultry farm that will act as a living laboratory for students and researchers to develop innovations for pasture-based poultry farms, integrative crop-and-poultry farms and backyard chicken flocks. The pasture also contains overnight housing for the chickens with […]

Center part of pending sister city agreement between Sacramento and Ho Chi Minh City In the next three years, UC Davis is expecting to launch the Center for New Viet Nam Studies that will work in conjunction with the pending sister city agreement between Ho Chi Minh City and Sacramento. Proposed by Asian American studies […]

Plant to provide 14 percent of the university’s electrical needs. On Nov. 20, UC Davis and renewable energy company SunPower Corporation announced the completion of a 16.3-megawatt solar power plant. The project, which started in fall 2014, will provide 14 percent of the campus’ electrical needs and is the largest solar power plant on a […]

Event held in mourning of victims of Paris terrorist attacks, police brutality, Syrian war From Nov. 30 to Dec. 4, UC Davis will hold Black Ribbon Week on campus in memory of victims of specific events in 2015, including incidents of police brutality, terrorism attacks across the globe and the war in Syria. Krizzia Manlangit, […]

Professor Richard Levenson makes breakthrough discovery in cancer research. Richard Levenson, a UC Davis Health System professor of pathology and laboratory, discovered in a study earlier this month that pigeons can be trained to identify cancer in tissue slides and mammograms. Levenson said that he first thought of using pigeons to detect cancer while on […]

University begins offering graduate seminars on human rights, border policing. On Nov. 13, the Mellon Initiative in Comparative Border Studies held a roundtable conversation entitled “Borders, Rights, and Resistance” at the Student Community Center. The roundtable, which seeks to educate the community on security and immigration-related topics, is one of the first events to introduce […]

AP units decrease the number of financial aid terms available for students An existing UC Davis policy regarding AP and transfer units has the potential to limit undergraduate students’ available financial aid. At UC Davis, students are given a maximum of 18 terms of financial aid, with one quarter counting as one term, and summer […]

Center joins The Pantry as another free food resource to students on campus Through the new Fruit and Veggie Up program, UC Davis students can now receive free fresh produce at the Student Health and Wellness Center by simply showing their university ID cards. The program, which began this summer, is funded through the Global […]

Napolitano plans to expand graduate student enrollment, increase non-resident tuition in addition to massive in-state undergraduate expansion From Nov. 18 to 20, the UC Board of Regents convened at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay Conference Center to discuss and vote on UC President Janet Napolitano’s plan to expand in-state undergraduate enrollment by 10,000 students. […]

New Employee Program provides newly hired staff a space to get to know UC Davis On Oct. 20, 80 new UC Davis employees attended the university’s first New Employee Program (NEW) at the UC Davis Conference Center. Organized by Staff Development and Professional Services, the quarterly welcome event was created to provide new university employees […]