UC Davis News

A look back at Lemon Grove, 49 years ago this week. A Tale of Two Queens: A Uneasy lies the head that wears a rhinestone tiara.

Sudangrass's popularity and market potential may increase with this spring's introduction of a new hybrid.

UC Davis mathematicians have helped biologists figure out why platelets, the cells that form blood clots , are the size and shape that they are.

Are you interested in plants that will look good year-round without supplemental water in the summer? Just think of all the money and time you could save.

Actor Robert De Niro delivers his commencement speech Sunday morning at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, Sunday, May 27, 2012.

UC Davis professorsA Noah Guynn ,A Hsuan L. Hsu A andA Keith David Watenpaugh A received support from the American Council of Learned Societies in their book projects.

The Visual Life of Occupy Wall Street by Maggie Sauter MIT Comparative Media Studies Many visual tropes have accompanied Occupy Wall Street's rise to public prominence.

The results of the study of DNA from the remains of ritually slaughtered animals found in tombs suggest that we have the people of Ancient Egypt to thank for our moggies and ginger toms.

The UC Davis Symphony Orchestra and the University Chorus will appear together in a concert at 7 p.m. Friday at the Mondavi Center.

Nancy McTygue , executive director of the California History-Social Science Project, based at UC Davis, has taken a seat on the California Instructional Quality Commission, by appointment of the state Board of Education.

Winemaker Robert Wurz with Stonefield Cellars Winery served attendees Saturday at the North Carolina Wine Festival.

UC Davis stem cell researchers Kyriacos Athanasiou and W. Douglas Boyd were awarded grants last week totaling $6.6. million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

Ellie Edles, UCD tennis player, sack races with North Davis Elementary students Paloma Campi, Sawyer Schoen and Cody Leveau after the students earned a visit with the athletes by completing a reading challenge.

Sacramentans may soon be using webcams or smart phones to snap a photo of their tongues and send it to a health professional for diagnosis using the ancient and traditional Chinese medicine practice of zheng, which emphasizes looking at the appearance of your tongue to classify the overall status of your body and your health.

UC Davis researchers have found that workers' compensation insurance is not used nearly as much as it should be to cover the nation's multi-billion dollar price tag for workplace illnesses and injuries.

This is one part in a weekly series featuring the UC Davis Community Favorites, 75 can't-fail, easy-care plants well-adapted to our region and recommended by local gardeners.

Because platelets are important both for healing wounds and in strokes and other conditions, a better understanding of how they form and behave could have wide implications.

Phone calls to Prague? Emails to Ecuador? The United States government can currently sift through any international communication that crosses outside of American territory, but all that might soon change.

There are only around 6000 people in the city of Winters, and just about 1600 students in the school district, so when not one but two children are hit by drunk drivers in just one month, you can expect a serious reaction.

A UC Davis, geologist is appealing for public help in tracking down pieces of the meteorite that blew up over El Dorado County on April 22.