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Checking In With Chancellor May: Preparing Our Students to Join the Workforce of Tomorrow

Spring at UC Davis is a season of transition. Students are already eagerly registering for commencement, and just a few weeks ...
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Global Strategies to Protect Seals and Sea Lions from Avian Influenza

When the H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was discovered on a poultry farm in Asia in 1996, there was little indication that it would become so widespread and so destructive. Within 30 ...
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The Unifying Impact of Javier Zamora’s 'Solito'

The Mondavi Center’s Jackson Hall was buzzing Tuesday, March 10 in anticipation for Javier Zamora’s discussion on his ...
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UC Davis Athletics Director Rocko Deluca Named NACDA Athletics Director of the Year

University of California, Davis, Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca has been named a 2025–26 NACDA Athletics Director of the ...
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Professional Writing

Did you know that the ability to effectively communicate through writing is the number one job skill? The minor in professional writing offers students advanced instruction in writing and editing as ...
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Film Studies

This interdisciplinary minor takes one of the most influential art forms of the twentieth century and today — film — as its object of study. The field of film studies addresses the history, theory and ...
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$9.8M Grant Will Fund College Corps for 3 More Years

A nearly $9.8 million grant will extend the College Corps program at UC Davis and enable up to 225 undergraduates in each of the next three academic years to learn and earn as they serve the community ...
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What Makes a Hit? On TikTok and Spotify, Listeners Only Partly Decide

TikTok is built for people to create and share their own content, so dance music and indie artists fill the platform’s Top 100. On Spotify, love songs and music from major record labels dominate its ...
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What Does it Mean to Remember Just About Everything?

Marilu Henner can immediately remember everything she did Feb. 24, 1977. It was a Thursday. She was living in New York. She ...
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The Science of Fatherhood

In the kitchen of UC Davis Professor Emerita Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, overlooking a long dining table, hangs a painting by artist Isabella Kirkland.
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Plant Cell Structure Could Hold Key to Cancer Therapies and Improved Crops

Professor Bo Liu, Department of Plant Biology, holds an Arabidopsis plant while Professor Jawdat Al-Bassam, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, holds a model of the augmin protein complex.
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Study Improves Understanding of Food Safety Risks in California Central Coast Produce

A view of the Salinas Valley in the Central Coast of California, where more than 400 crops are grown. (Ronald Bond / Western Center for Food Safety and Security at UC Davis) A major five-year study on ...