UC Davis News Archives

With these weekly Q&A posts, we typically talk to a winery owner, winemaker, vineyard manager or someone else employed by an individual winery.

Federal stimulus grants to UC Davis will put some 250 people to work on earthquake safety, new sources of clean energy and West Nile virus control, among dozens of other research projects.

An unlikely international superstar is emerging in full bloom, offering a newly affordable home luxury in an era of tight money.

The study, to be reported in the Oct. 30 issue of Science , expands economists' conventional focus on material riches, and looks at various kinds of wealth, such as hunting success, food sharing partners, and kinship networks.

The long-standing rule of matching wine and food -- red wine with red meat and white wine with fish -- actually has a scientific explanation, according to two scientists working for the Mercian Corporation, a Japanese producer and marketer of wine.

Ann Robinson will always be an educator at heart. Last summer, however, she had to ask herself a question all too familiar to people with long careers that come to an unexpected end: "Now what am I going to do?" Robinson, 64, became a statistic of the teaching community.

An up and coming musician and young Canadian woman, Taylor Mitchell, who was solo hiking in Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia on Tuesday, was attacked by two coyotes and died from her injuries.

California State University, Sacramento, students Monica Barba, left, and Yeimi Lopez were among about 300 people who attended a vigil Wednesday evening in front of the American River Courtyard residence hall where student Scott Gregory Hawkins was killed Oct.

Infant development research at the University of California Davis has gotten a $1 million boost.

Share + Oct 27, 2009 6:04 pm US/Pacific Reporting Koula Gianulias DAVIS, Calif. A UC Davis student has turned into an internet rock star and is paying his way through college by raking in tens of thousands of dollars through his YouTube comedy videos.

Overview: Multiprocessing is nothing new. The techniques for creating successful multiprocessing systems are proven, well-known, and widely adopted.

As California state government faces a growing brain drain crisis, the Department of Motor Vehicles is trying to blunt the impact by grooming its brightest, most promising workers to take over.

Despite all the panic and hype about the H1N1 pandemic and the rush to immunize people in droves against the virus, the fact is -- so far -- the outbreak has been fairly mild.

If there's one thing that spreads faster than the flu, it's unfounded rumors. We asked Dr.

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have identified the dominant odor naturally produced in humans and birds that attracts the blood-feeding Culex mosquitoes, which transmit West Nile virus and other life-threatening diseases.

The suggested link between autism and mercury exposure is a heated topic that won't go away, even though a majority of the medical community has debunked it.

Quran Jones had been roommates with the Sac State student he is accused of killing.

Sacramento Fire Department personnel remove Scott Gregory Hawkins from a Sacramento State University dormitory, where the 23-year-old had been beaten, allegedly by his roommate, on Wednesday.

UC Davis entomologist James R. Carey, director of a federally funded program on lifespan and aging, has just received a $3.4 million grant renewal from the National Institute on Aging.

The Sacramento State student accused of beating a fellow student to death in their dorm room Wednesday had recently talked extensively about a hallucinogenic drug, according to a suitemate of the two men.

Sacramento State officials released a detailed timeline Friday of the response to this week's deadly violence inside a campus dormitory that suggests Quran Jones started his rampage before his victim got home.

Alyson Snow at the 2007 Leland High School graduation with friends, Annie Rummelhoff and Grace Chang.

The mean-spirited would call it Darwinism at work. A suspected thief got the shock of his life after apparently trying to steal copper.

On October 27 and 28, the "B HERE" campaign to raise awareness of hepatitis B comes to UC Davis campus -- Multi-media Art Exhibit featuring up-and-coming young artists highlighting different aspects of this life-threatening disease -- Evening of Live Performances featuring some of the nation's most entertaining young Asian American music, dance and ...

Paparazzi on notice ... Arnold Schwarzenegger. More than a dozen years after Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mercedes-Benz was ambushed in Santa Monica by two rowdy paparazzi, sparking their arrests, the actor-turned-governor is having his say.

Neither campus police nor Sacramento State University President Alexander Gonzalez would speculate on a motive behind the death of a 23-year-student Wednesday, allegedly at the hands of his 19-year-suitemate. The victim was identified as Scott Hawkins, 23, of Sacramento.

A family-operated marijuana-growing operation helped cover the University of California, Davis, college costs for twin brothers, Stockton police said.

Damaged knee joints might one day be repaired with cartilage grown from stem cells in a laboratory, based on research by Professor Kyriacos Athanasiou, chair of the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering and his colleagues.

Jan. 21, 1998: California State University, Sacramento Tommy Carl Valdez, 29, of Sacramento had been talking to himself and waving a fake handgun, which looked like a real weapon, as he walked along a creek bed adjacent to the CSUS campus on Jan.

One student has died following an altercation with another student at Sacramento State Wednesday afternoon, university President Alexander Gonzalez said.

A Vacaville man was arrested Tuesday an infant in his care was found to be under the influence of marijuana.

Blood levels of mercury are similar in children with autism and in those developing typically, a study released Monday found.

Main Category: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Also Included In: Genetics Article Date: 19 Oct 2009 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced more than $7 million in grants for research on the biology of plant processes and traits which can be used to breed crops with enhanced value and resilience to climate stress.

USDA, ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center invites healthy postmenopausal women, ages 50-65, who are non-smokers and not taking hormone replacement, bone-building medications, or other medications, to participate in this 9-month study with 10 study visits on the UC Davis campus.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In a large population-based study published online today, researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute report that after adjusting for a number of factors, typically developing children and children with autism have similar levels of mercury in their blood streams.

Children who have had an episode of diabetic ketoacidosis, a common complication of diabetes, may have persistent memory problems, according to a new study from researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain.

A former UC Davis accounting coordinator has turned herself in response to an arrest warrant charging her with embezzlement and theft of more than $38,000. Sueanna Gaines, also known as Susie Cauchi, of Yuba City, surrendered Sunday at Yolo County Jail in Woodland.

Chocolate began as a hot drink, usually served with breakfast almost everywhere in the 18th century.

An olive oil partially developed from UC Davis trees will go on sale today at the bookstore in the university Memorial Union.

UC Davis nutrition researchers are challenging the decades-old conventional wisdom that we should watch our salt.

An alleged domestic violence dispute in Vacaville apparently bubbled over on Thursday, ending with a shotgun blast that critically wounded a woman and led to the arrest of her live-in boyfriend.

It's still all theory, but UC Davis researchers think that the reason senior citizens over age 65 aren't catching the H1N1 flu at least for now is that specific shared molecular sites called epitopes result in some type of immunity to the novel flu.

Listen to the report UC Davis scientists studied both the H1N1 virus and seasonal flu viruses and they found they share a similar molecular structure.

It's still all theory, but UC Davis researchers think that the reason senior citizens over age 65 aren't catching the H1N1 flu at least for now is that specific shared molecular sites called epitopes result in some type of immunity to the novel flu.

New research by a pair of UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine scientists confirms previous theories that people 65 and older may be protected from the most serious effects of the novel H1N1 virus by many decades' worth of previous exposure to other flu viruses.

I write for Neon Tommy, the digital news website, as a science writer. My undergraduate degree is from... Full Bio Erin Richards The CDC has released 3.4 million doses of the H1N1,or swine flu,vaccine, which will be distributed throughout the 50 states.

Socially learned behavior and belief are much better candidates than genetics to explain the self-sacrificing behavior we see among strangers in societies, from soldiers to blood donors to those who contribute to food banks.

The search is on for a homeless man who's a possible person of interest in the massive and deadly Station Fire in the Angeles National Forest.

The National Minority Franchising Initiative has named Jack in the Box restaurants to its annual list of "50 Top Franchises for Minorities." -- Chain Leader, 10/9/2009 8:32:00 AM PRESS RELEASE: SAN DIEGO, October 8, 2009 - The National Minority Franchising Initiative has named Jack in the Box restaurants to its annual list of "50 Top Franchises for ...

Robert Daniel Thompson, the man acquitted of murder charges in the 1986 unsolved homicides of two Atwater girls, is in the hospital after being shot Friday in Eureka.

Last week, two police officers escorted a man to the emergency room at the UC Davis Medical Center.

Woodland resident Shannon Sterrett has been sentenced to four years in state prison after being convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.

UC Davis Medical Center has agreed to pay a $5.75 million settlement to a 4-year-old boy who suffered brain injuries during his birth at the hospital.

The Palace Theatre is excited to announce the newest fundraising dinner to take place in December and the addition of wine maker Michael Martini to the event, joining Chef Kent Rathbun of Abacus.

Share + Oct 7, 2009 11:15 pm US/Pacific More Local News Reporting Mike Dello Stritto DAVIS, Calif.

A one-day defense that featured four witnesses brought testimony to a close Tuesday in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" radio contest wrongful death trial.

All UC Davis Health System employees and students will be required to get seasonal and H1N1 flu vaccines, or wear facial masks throughout this flu season.

The UC Davis program in forensic science has been awarded three grants - including one to develop a bullet-matching database - totaling more than $2.2 million by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Taking a look at the newest additions to the BVWT Our mini-tour of the Brandywine Valley Wine Trail continues this week, with a trip out into the Pennsylvania hills to see another newbie, this time in the form of Black Walnut Winery , which joined the Trail in January of 2008.

Dave DeSimone is a member of the American Wine Society. He can be heard daily on KQV Radio with the Wine Cellar reports.

Clark Smith at the Wine 101 benefit for the Indian Springs School Annual Fund. Paul Samford gets a glass of wine from Smith before the Liquid Music class.

October 05, 2009 8:10 pm ET - 0 Comments Recently, the right-wing media have engaged in relentless attacks on President Obama and his administration and progressive organizations.

Food around the world is likely to become scarcer and more expensive if the United States and other developing countries don't bolster their investment in agricultural research, warns a team of economists from UC Davis, and the University of Minnesota.

Federal officials said Friday that they are looking into reports of inflated campus crime data by the University of California, Davis.

Fair View High School Vice Principal Dave McKay said it was hard to believe that anyone, or anything, could have survived inside the battered Toyota Tercel he and student Adrian Curiel inspected in a Chico tow yard Monday.

The Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District announced today that two new mosquito samples from the valley have tested positive for West Nile virus.

A driver suffered serious injuries Friday when his pickup hit a freight train near Davis.

UC Davis Cancer Center will take part in an unprecedented statewide collaboration for breast cancer patients with the goal of revolutionizing the course of their care by designing and testing new approaches to research, technology and health-care delivery.

Dozens of sexual assaults were reported on or near UC Davis in recent years, but now CBS13 has learned the numbers are way off.

The University of California, Davis, said it significantly over-reported the number of forcible sex offenses that were committed on and around campus in recent years, pinning the blame on a former employee.

Named the ATHENA Breast Health Network, the project will initially involve 150,000 women throughout California who will be screened for breast cancer and followed for decades through the five UC medical centers.

After drinking a gallon and a half of water, Jennifer Lea Strange's thinking would have been so impaired by the time she left a radio station on the day she died that she might as well have been drunk, a doctor testified Wednesday.