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Professors in different departments work to explore games from new angles By their nature, video games mean different things to different people. To some, they’re simply toys; to others, they’re objects of technical interest, a means of showing advancements in computer graphics or computing power. But the possibilities of video games are much broader. Here […]

The tradeoffs of Davis housing spots When it comes to housing, people find themselves worrying most about rent and who to room with, but it is also worth it to get to know the town, and yourself, well enough so you know what types of things you’d like to live near. Living in a location […]

UC Davis on path to create environmental justice minor The Civil Rights Movement was undoubtedly one of the most important movements of the 20th century. It was, however, more than a reclamation of ethnic identity and social power for minority groups, but also the catalyst of environmental rights awareness. Thus was born a movement to […]

Should excellent customer service be sacrificed to accommodate hectic schedules? The best solutions to systemic problems are often multilateral. Tapingo, the mobile ordering app recently introduced at the CoHo, the CoHo South Cafe and Biobrew, is no exception, as it manages to ameliorate the experience of the user, the typical customer and the front-of-house employee […]

Women in STEM create nurturing environments, student org support UC Davis was ranked number one for launching women into science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers and has proven successful in providing a nurturing environment for STEM success. However, just a generation ago, the presence of women in STEM had completely different ratios across the country […]

A look at The California Aggie 40 years ago, alumni experiences in a different world 40 years is a huge gap in time with lots of room for change. In 1977, the world was vastly different than it was in 1937, before World War II, the Civil Rights movement and humans walking on the moon. […]

Help or hinderance? Over the last 10 years, social media has transformed the way people interact and learn, for better and for worse, raising many questions about how it impacts education. In a recent interview with Axios, Facebook’s founding president Sean Parker made a few quite revealing remarks about the potential negative impacts of Facebook […]

Associate instructors connect with students despite administrative challenges Some say that the best way to show your understanding of a concept is to explain it to someone else. That might be part of the reason why, for many graduate students, part of the path to their degree involves teaching. Many graduate students at Davis lead […]

International Education Week sparks worldwide engagement, international student awareness Last summer, while Jami Miller, a fourth-year international relations and Spanish double major, was taking a business writing class, she had the opportunity to do a cultural diversity project with two of her classmates, both of whom were from China. The experience allowed Miller to get […]

A look at how students can reevaluate their sleep habits Students across the UC Davis campus can all too often be found melting into uncomfortable chairs for their scheduled or impromptu midday naps. While it could take an especially taxing week to rattle the rigid sleep schedules of some students, other students may regularly have […]

A Multilingual Look at Radical Literary and Educational Innovation “Une Si Longue Lettre,” a novel by Senegalese author Mariama Ba, is often referred to as a “liberatory feminist classic” in the words of Tobias Warner. Warner, a professor in the UC Davis Department of French and Italian, has researched this novel extensively, tracking its translation […]

Veterans Success Center holds events for Veterans Week, offers year-round resources For students who have served in the military, the college experience can be radically different than that of other students. One challenge faced by student veterans, though, is something that a lot of new students might relate to.   “Most [student veterans] are transfer […]