Campus News

Unitrans is making changes to several of its routes for the upcoming year. The adjustments went into effect Monday and will continue throughout the school year.

While the majority of Unitrans routes will remain the same for the upcoming year, changes have been made to the K, W and P/Q lines, said Anthony Palmere, assistant general manager of administration for Unitrans.

UC Davis will partner with state, federal and private agencies to study carbon capture farming in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, in an effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The collaboration is enabled by a three-year $12.3 million grant awarded by the state Department of Water Resources to the U.S. Geological Survey.

University of California President Mark Yudof announced the creation of an accountability program designed to assess UC's performance on multiple levels and generate reports available to the public. The first report is expected to be released this fall.

The report is intended to make the university more transparent and accessible to the public, aid in future strategic planning efforts for the University of California Board of Regents and assist in managing budgeting issues.

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

As wildfires continue to blaze across California, one UC Davis group is aiming to learn more about the fires' potential effects on the ecosystem of the Lake Tahoe basin.

The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, a group of professors, researchers and graduate students studying sustainable use of the lake, recently installed a fourth air sampler designed to provide detailed analyses of the compounds and toxic materials resulting from forest wildfires.

In the July 28 issue of The California Aggie, the article "UC to open two new medical schools" stated that 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 February 2007 injunction against UC Berkeley that prevented the building of a new athletic training facility next to Memorial Stadium. The controversy over the new facility centers on its location. In order to build the structure next to the stadium, the university plans to clear 44 trees from a grove of about 80 oaks, redwoods and other trees.

UC Davis Medical Center was named among the nation's top 50 "Best Hospitals" for the 16th consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report in its annual survey of over 5,000 national hospitals. The results were made public July 10 online.

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 proposal aiming to expand the number of freshman applications entitled to review at its meeting earlier this month. The proposal, pending approval from the regents, would take effect in fall of 2012 by eliminating the requirement for applicants to submit two SAT II subject test scores.

In the July 24 issue of The California Aggie, the article "UCD graduate students start water resources website" stated that the website has users in Iraq, when it actually has users in Iran. The article also stated that the site has users in 88 countries, when in reality it has users in 77 countries. 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 researchers studying two antimicrobial chemical compounds - triclosan and triclocarban - found in a wide variety of hygienic products, recently published an article in Environmental Health Perspectives documenting their discoveries of the negative effects 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.