UC Davis News

Chemical ecologist Walter Leal, professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, is the 2008 winner of a major award from the Entomological Society of America: the Recognition Award in Insect ...

Sherith Israel hosting identity symposium Congregation Sherith Israel's third annual symposium, 'Mine, Yours, Ours: Ad-venture into Jewish Identity,' will be held 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. October 19 at the synagogue, ...

A ninth victim of a charter bus crash in Northern California died Friday, officials said.

An 8-year-old boy known by family and friends as "Pork Chop" was critically injured Monday afternoon in north Stockton after being struck and thrown at least 20 feet by a hit-and-run driver who was later ...

Click here to learn how to advertise on this site and for ad rates. Autism Issues Author: UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute Last Updated: Oct 10, 2008 - 7:54:27 AM Find Important Clue to Learning Deficit in Children ...

Emergency help is closer for many cell phone users who make a 9-1-1 call on the University of California, Davis, campus.

As regular readers of this column may recall, I like to devote some October columns to Italian wines and western hemisphere vintners of Italian lineage.

Prosecutors sent a hit-and-run case back to investigators Wednesday after filing no charges against a pair of brothers arrested on suspicion of causing an accident Monday that critically injured an 8-year-old ...

It's been long known that mercury from old mines leaks into the San Francisco Bay from the hills above San Jose where the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine operated for more than 120 years before it was shut down in ...

Experts say more investment in plant science research, such as the wheat breakthrough, is crucial to future crop productivity.

USDA awards more than $28 million for specialty crop research Oct. 8, 2008 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer today announced that USDA has awarded more than $28 million through the Specialty ...

An 8-year-old boy critically injured in a hit-and-run accident Monday afternoon remains in intensive care under the close watch of doctors at a Sacramento hospital, his grandmother Etta Baker said Tuesday.

King Tut to make triumphal return to S.F. Steven Winn, Chronicle Arts and Culture Critic Thirty years to the month after King Tut first took San Francisco by storm, antiquity's most famous monarch will attempt ...

Oct 6, 2008 4:46 pm US/Pacific Reporting Koula Gianulias DAVIS Being loud and rowdy is what the UC Davis marching band is known for.

A mourning son is speaking out after his mother and seven other people were killed in a Colusa County bus crash.

An 8-year-old Stockton boy was airlifted to a hospital this afternoon after suffering major injuries when he was struck by a car on Kelley Drive north of Hammer Lane.

A bus driver with a string of motor vehicle offenses and a history of substance abuse was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Monday after his casino-bound charter bus ran into a ditch, killing ...

Drs. Veronica Bandy, Daniel Dong and Maria Serpa Designated as 2008 Society Fellows and Darren Besoyan to Receive Technician Achievement Award.

Slabaugh ordered band members to put their clothes back on, but they ignored him, he said in a memo to university officials.

UC Davis bee breeder-geneticist opens a hive at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility.