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Alumni from UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, UC Riverside take home awards for categories including public service, fiction and breaking news. This year, 13 University of California (UC) alumni from UC Berkeley (UCB), UC Santa Cruz (UCSC), and UC Riverside (UCR) won Pulitzer Prizes. Awardees include four individuals and a news group consisting of UC […]

UC Davis predoctoral anthropology student studies bioacoustics of Bornean gibbons In the Malaysian jungle, the Bornean gibbon sings at dawn — and Dena Clink, a fifth-year UC Davis predoctoral anthropology student, records them. Clink’s research analyzes Bornean gibbon vocalizations in order to answer the fundamental question of which evolutionary forces — natural selection or drift […]

Students take steps toward trusting their teaching assistants. At a public research university such as UC Davis, it is not uncommon for students to depend heavily on the guidance and instruction of their teaching assistants (TA’s). However, many TA’s are young graduate students having recently completed their undergraduate educations, and this lack of an age […]

Bands and musicians from Davis, throughout California, Canada, head to annual local festival The joys of Spring Quarter don’t end after Picnic Day. This weekend’s Whole Earth Festival (Friday, May 6 to Sunday, May 8) will boast food, local vendors, sustainable education, excessive hula hooping and of course, great music. With an amazing lineup of […]

International ride honors bike crash victims   On Wednesday, May 18, The Ride of Silence will take place in Davis to honor cyclists who have been injured or killed while riding. Rides on May 18 will take place worldwide to honor cyclists who have been in crashes and to raise awareness for bikers’ rights on […]

Center to replace Student Community Center’s IET Media Lab UC Davis has announced plans to open a new Chicana/o and Latina/o Resource Center. The IET Media Lab in the Student Community Center (SCC) will close in spring of 2017 to make space for the center. “The intention is to be more strategic and intentional to […]

Former UC Regent outlines Student Loan Refinancing and Recalculating Act of 2016 In a press conference held at the UC Davis Student Community Center on Tuesday, May 3, United States Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) introduced a student reform bill intended to reduce the burden of current and future student debt. The Student Loan Refinancing and […]

UC Davis to become Hispanic Serving Institution by fall 2018 UC Davis will be participating in the Pathways to the Professoriate, a nationwide educational preparatory program, to increase the number of Latino/a professors in the humanities at U.S. colleges and universities. The program is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with a 5.1 million […]

Faculty members recognized for work in administration, literature, music, physics Four members of the UC Davis faculty were recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, bringing the current number of scholars from the university in the academy to 25. The nomination and election processes are secret and conducted by current members of […]

Japan Trip | December 2015 Over winter break, my family and I went on vacation to Japan. We visited Jigokudani Monkey Park in Nagano which took five hours from Tokyo. Once in Nagano, we had to hike for 30 minutes to get to the park. The monkeys were really cute and not afraid of humans […]

UC Davis community looks forward to this year’s raw-themed Whole Earth Festival. This year’s Whole Earth Festival (WEF) is right around the corner. Students, staff, families and visitors are looking forward to a whole weekend of food, friends, fun and festivities. The Whole Earth Festival is a three-day, student-run festival that takes place on the […]

Kalm Dog continues to expand in sound, more recently endeavoring to release a freshman EP There’s a small toy store next to El Burrito, and if you don’t visit for the nostalgia of childhood games, at least attempt their World’s Most Challenging Puzzle display. I spent my Friday night unsuccessfully piecing together nine cardboard squares, […]