Campus News

UC Davis expertsalongwith the Public Policy Institute of California concluded that a peripheral canalis the best solution to support both the economic and ecological value of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

As wildfires continue to blaze acrossCalifornia,one UC Davis group is aiming to learn more about the fires‘ potential effects on the ecosystem of theLake Tahoe basin. TheUC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center,a group of professors,researchers and graduate students studying sustainable use of the lake,recently installed a fourth air samplerdesigned to provide detailed analyses of the compounds and toxic materialsresultingfrom forest wildfires.

In the July28issue of The California Aggie,the article “UC to open two new medical schools” statedthat the UC regents granted approval for the opening of a medical school on the UC Merced campus.The article should have stated that UC Merced has received approval to plan a new medical school.The Aggie regrets the error.

An Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday to lift a February2007injunction against UC Berkeley that preventedthe building of a new athletic training facility next toMemorialStadium.The controversy over the new facility centers on its location.In order to build the structure next to the stadium,the university plans to clear44trees from a grove of about80oaks,redwoods and other trees.

UC DavisMedical Centerwas named among the nation’s top50“Best Hospitals“ for the16thconsecutive yearbyU.S.News & World Report in its annual survey of over5,000national hospitals.The results were made public July10online.

With the recent approval from the University of California Board of Regents for the creation of two new medical schools, UC is hoping to help alleviate the severe shortage of physicians in California’s rural and minority regions.

The University of California Board of Regents had the first of many discussions about a faculty proposalaiming to expand the number of freshman applications entitled to review at its meetingearlier this month.The proposal,pending approval from theregents,would take effect infall of2012by eliminating the requirement for applicants to submit two SAT II subject test scores.

In the July24issue of The California Aggie,the article “UCD graduate students start water resources website” stated that the website has users inIraq,when it actually has users inIran.The article also stated that the site has users in88countries,when in reality it has users in77countries.The Aggie regrets the errors.

As the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games nears, UC Davis’ own husband and wife veterinary team are preparing to lead the Olympic equine veterinary facility. Jack Snyder and Sharon Spier have worked at every Olympic game since 1988 when they were first asked to help during the Korea games because of their combined experience and the lack of equine veterinarians in Korea at the time.

Graduate students from different departments at UC Davis launched a social bookmarking website in May field called WaterSISWEB, which stands for Scientific Information Syndication Websites, and is dedicated to the water resources. Kaveh Madani, a Ph.D. candidate in civil and environmental engineering, helped create the site, along with other graduate students from various departments and people on campus.

That antibacterial soap might not be so good for your health after all,according to a new UC Davis study. A coalition of UC Davis researchersstudying twoantimicrobialchemical compounds – triclosan and triclocarban – found in a wide variety of hygienic products,recently published an article inEnvironmental Health Perspectivesdocumenting their discoveriesof thenegativeeffects of these chemicals on reproductive hormone activity and cell signaling through studies of human and animal cells.

As increasing numbers of people turn to alternative fuel vehicles, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is funding a $900,000 research project at UC Davis to study the effects of alternative fuel emissions on the changing climate. Michael Kleeman, the project’s lead researcher and professor of civil and environmental engineering, will measure how particles emitted from vehicles powered by gas, ethanol, diesel and bio-diesel change in response to changes in the climate.