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On the morning of Jan. 29, a patient thought to potentially have the Ebola virus was transferred from Sacramento’s Mercy General Hospital to the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. While the patient ultimately tested negative for Ebola, the patient was said to have had symptoms consistent with Ebola and had recently traveled to a […]

On Jan. 20, President Obama gave his State of the Union Address, in which he declared, “We still live in a country where too many bright, striving Americans are priced out of the education they need. It’s not fair to them, and it’s not smart for our future.” Obama’s plan for free community college would […]

ASUCD recently rejoined the University of California Student Association (UCSA), an organization for UC students and student governments that seeks to provide a collective voice for UC students. In recent months, various students involved in ASUCD on campus have been advocating UC Davis’ involvement in UCSA. According to Harley Litzelman, director of the ASUCD Office […]

UC Davis students who wish to be part of a gigantic heart formation while raising awareness for heart disease can do so at the second annual UC Davis Wears Red Day, which will take place on Friday at Hutchinson Field. Coinciding with National Heart Awareness Day, the event will begin at 11 a.m. and raises […]

At the Jan. 29 ASUCD senate meeting, Senate Resolution (SR) No. 9 passed with an 8-2-2 vote. The text of SR No. 9 calls for the University of California (UC) Board of Regents to divest from “corporations that aid in the Israeli occupation of Palestine and illegal settlements in Palestinian territories, violating both international humanitarian […]

Members of the UC Davis chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), the predominantly-and-historically-Jewish fraternity, woke up the morning of Saturday Jan. 31 to discover two large swastikas spray painted around the fraternity house, which is located across the street from campus. The graffiti was found on a wall in the back of the building and […]

At tonight’s (Jan. 29) ASUCD senate meeting, Senate Resolution (SR) #9 passed with an 8-2-2 vote. The text of SR #9 calls for the University of California (UC) Board of Regents to divest from “corporations that aid in the Israeli occupation of Palestine and illegal settlements in Palestinian territories, violating both international humanitarian law and […]

Attention UC Davis science students: expect a drastic shake-up in your lectures and be prepared to get called on at any moment in class. The UC Davis-based project iAMSTEM HUB (interdisciplinary Agriculture Medicine Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics Hub) has been conducting experiments and studies to measure how the interactions between faculty and students […]

ASUCD President Armando Figueroa presided over the Senate meeting held on Jan. 8 in the Mee Room of the Memorial Union. After quorum roll call, Senate moved into the Appointments and Confirmations section, and the Sexual Assault Awareness and Advocacy Committee (SAAAC) discussed ways for improvement. Proposed ideas included working with Empower Yolo and enforcing […]

UC Davis researchers have recently received a combined total of $6.9 million to study the health benefits of cow milk. To fund the study, The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine gave $4.2 million to a team led by David Mills, a UC Davis professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology, and […]

The National Science Foundation has given a team of researchers at UC Davis a $200,000 rapid-response grant to study how to increase the rate of production of the Ebola drug Zmapp. Zmapp, created by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. of San Diego, along with the U.S. government and partners in Canada, is a mixture of antibodies created […]

Recently, UC Davis researchers developed a method to incorporate the University of California (UC) Natural Reserve System (NRS) to better improve the prediction of weather forecast and ecological impacts of climate change in California. The researchers collaborated with colleagues from other UC campuses to utilize the UC Natural Reserve System to make a significant impact […]