Campus News

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.

For nearly 100 years, the SAT has been used by universities in their admissions process, but a new report out of the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley argues that the SAT is an inferior predictor of student success in college.

Members of the Sacramento community will have the chance to receive free health screenings this Saturday from the UC Davis School of Medicine’s student-run clinics at the 10th annual Ulezi Family Health Fair, part of the Oak Park Summer concert series.

Despite preventative efforts by the University of California and the Public Employment Relations Board, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 service workers began a statewide strike Monday.

The University of California is in the process of planning for the implementation of a degree-granting School of Global Health, which is expected to receive funding and begin recruiting faculty in May of 2009.

Anybody who still shudders at the traumatizing memory of childhood booster shots will appreciate a recent UC Davis medical study that could mean the end of daily injections for infants afflicted with neonatal diabetes.

Swiss adventurer and schoolteacher Louis Palmer made a stop in Davis on Saturday on his trip around the world to showcase his exclusively solar-powered vehicle, the Solar Taxi. He began his trip July 3 in Lucerne, Switzerland and has traveled 22,000 miles through Europe, Asia and North America.