Science & Technology

$1.1 million grant from Walt Disney Company given to UC Davis UC Davis has partnered with littleBits to create the “Snap the Gap” program. LittleBits is an educational technology company that provides hands-on learning kits to make STEM engaging for young girls. The new Snap the Gap program will provide mentorship and tools to 15,000 […]

Competition encourages public to get outside and experience nature in cities This weekend, residents from over 150 cities across the world will compete in the City Nature Challenge to determine who can find and record the most wildlife species. The Sacramento area will compete for the first time. Anyone in Davis, Sacramento or the surrounding […]

UC Davis Smoke and Tobacco Free Program launches Aggie Air across campus UC Davis celebrates its fifth anniversary as a smoke and tobacco-free campus with Aggie Air, an online campus engagement tool for the campus community to track litter and smoke and tobacco usage. “A lot of us want to tell somebody our concerns about […]

UC Davis Meat Lab Team excels at collegiate California Association of Meat Processors’ Cured Meat Competition Sweet and Spicy Meat Candy. Bourbon’s Revenge. Asian Invasion Jerky. These are just a few of the jerky products that placed at the California Association of Meat Processors’ Cured Meat Competition. These same products allowed the UC Davis Meat […]

How studying 2 billion tweets led UC Davis researchers to understand when remarkable weather turns unremarkable Frances C. Moore, an assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy has been interested in the phenomenon in which extreme weather, after becoming increasingly frequent, is no longer considered extreme. This led to a […]

UC Davis Seed Biotechnology Center partnership with African Orphan Crop Consortium prepare underutilized crops for success. Crops like corn, rice or cocoa have relished in research, breeding crop varieties for high yield and disease resistance. Traditional African crops, such as spider plant, finger millet, bambara groundnut or allanblackia, remain highly nutritious in a limited set […]

DNA testing may promise new understandings of health and ancestry On April 24, the UC Davis Humanities Institute will host a “Who are you?” campus conversation at the Davis Odd Fellows, 415 Second Street from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., about the pitfalls, social risks and promises involved in DNA testing on campus and in […]

Isolation and low genetic diversity threatens Southern California mountain lion populations Although it is commonly accepted that mountain lions are dangerous, humans may be more of a threat to these predators than they are to us. A recent study of two mountain lion populations in the Santa Ana and Santa Monica Mountains revealed the potential […]

A UC Davis program helps STEM majors become K-12 Teachers While some UC Davis students who earn technical degrees in majors such as physics or computer science go on to become engineers and scientists, others decide to pursue careers in education. Some STEM majors decide to become K-12 teachers, and a program called CalTeach Mathematics […]

Utilizing food puzzles may help increase cat welfare Although cats are commonly known as low maintenance pets, there are still important factors owners have to consider when taking care of their animals. According to Mikel Delgado, a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis, food puzzles can allow cats to express […]

UC Davis researchers find mutation in bulldogs similar to anatomical changes caused by rare genetic disease Robinow Syndrome Bulldogs, French bulldogs and Boston terriers aren’t only recognizable by their wide heads and short limbs but also by their screwtails, which are caused by the lack of vertebrae that normally make up the tailbone. Researchers at […]

Self-assembling DNA programmed by applying theoretical computer science to molecular engineering Through the incorporation of computer science into molecular engineering, computer scientists from UC Davis and the California Institute of Technology developed DNA that can algorithmically self-assemble. Using a DNA set tile containing 355 single-stranded tiles, the scientists were able to construct 21 circuits that […]