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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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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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First Cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Northern Elephant Seals Confirmed in California

An adult male northern elephant seal attempts to mate with an adult female near the end of the breeding season. Note: March 12, 2026: This outbreak is ongoing. For the latest updates and materials, ...
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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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Humans are Born to Run

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 ...
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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 ...
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Hawk Study Shows Potential Lessons of Bird Flight

Graduate students Huanglun Zhu and Kiran Weston set up a 3D printed model of a hawk wing for testing in the UC Davis wind tunnel. Based on motion capture imaging at Oxford University, the wind tunnel ...
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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 ...