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UC Davis

For more than 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matter to California and transform the world. Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has more than 33,000 students, more than 2,500 faculty and more than 21,000 staff, an annual research budget of nearly $750 million, a comprehensive health system and 13 specialized research centers. The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and more than 100 undergraduate majors in four colleges — Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Letters and Science. It also houses six professional schools — Education, Law, Management, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.
Who is watching the watchers? Computer scientists at UC Davis find that popular makes of 'smart' TVs use a method called automatic content recognition (ACR) to capture content on screen and share it with manufacturers, who can use it to sell advertising. (Getty Images)

Your Smart TV Knows Everything You Watch – Even When You’re Not Watching TV

Categories Social Sciences, Technology
An adult California vole at the study site and b an adult female California ground squirrel consuming the head of a freshly hunted adult California vole

California Ground Squirrels Caught Hunting Voles in a Carnivorous Twist

Categories Life & Non-humans
A subadult male elephant seal can be seen near sea lions in October 2024. Subadult elephant seals and sea lions frequently intermingle at rookeries along Península Valdés in Argentina. Close contact between pinniped species may have facilitated the spread of HPAI in 2023.

Devastating Bird Flu Leaves Elephant Seal Colony at One-Third Its Former Size

Categories Life & Non-humans
The amygdala is a part of the brain important for emotional responses, especially fear. It is thought to be important in anxiety disorders. A new UC Davis study reveals new cell types in different areas of the amygdala, which may suggest new ways to treat anxiety. (Getty Images)

Scientists Map ‘Fear Center’ Brain Cells, Opening New Path for Anxiety Treatment

Categories Brain & Behavior
A new study by UC Davis researchers quantifies the climate costs of carbon emissions from manufacturing common materials such as steel, aluminum, plastics and cement. Including these costs in the market prices of materials could create incentives to develop new and more climate-friendly processes. (Getty Images)

Assessing the Real Climate Costs of Manufacturing

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment
abstract illustration of a human brain hovering over a polluted work site

Research links outdoor air pollution to differences in children’s brains

Categories Brain & Behavior, Earth, Energy & Environment, Health
An example of a low severity fire from a prescribed burn in a dry mixed conifer forest.

Wildfire ‘Reburns’ Show Promise in Forest Management

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment
Aggie alumna Kim Conley (center) competed in the 5,000 and 10,000 meter events at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. New research supports the idea that humans have long used endurance running as a way to chase down prey. (Photo by Brian Davies/The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon)

Endurance Running a Key Factor in Human Evolution

Categories Health
A molecule found in the keto diet plays a key role in preventing early memory decline in mice. The memory loss is comparable to mild cognitive impairment in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease in humans. (UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine)

Keto Diet Prevents Early Memory Decline in Mice

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health
Prof. Alex Nord, right and graduate student Tracy Warren have discovered genetic variants linked to some symptoms of schizophrenia that are currently hard to treat. The work could lead to new insights and treatments for the disease. (Sasha Bakhter, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences)

Unraveling the Puzzle of Schizophrenia: Study Links Genes to Symptoms

Categories Brain & Behavior
A digital illustration depicting a Joshua tree and a San Joaquin kit fox in a desert landscape, with wind turbines and solar panels in the background, symbolizing the delicate balance between clean energy development and biodiversity conservation.

Balancing Clean Energy and Biodiversity: Study Reveals Challenges in the Face of Climate Change

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences
Micrograph showing a pancreatic tumor with experimentally depleted levels of En1, which reduces metastatic activity.

Researchers identify protein linked to metastasis in pancreatic cancer

Categories Health
illustration of domain walls

Ultrafast laser pulses could lessen data storage energy needs

Categories Technology
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