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As the world leader in veterinary medicine, the new UC Davis Veterinary Medical Center will only enhance our ability to collaborate and innovate, allowing even more successes like the one featured in this story.

Via Redding Record Searchlight

My Global Education: A New World Perspective

In June of 2018, 25 young professionals and leaders from 17 Sub-Saharan African countries arrived at UC Davis for a six-week fellowship program, part of a larger cohort of 700 young leaders dispersed to select universities across the country, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Read this student's account of the importance of global education and UC Davis' role in making it available to all.

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Digital Medicine

Via UC Davis School of Medicine

UC Davis experts are testing how digital games, apps and virtual reality may help us treat neurodevelopmental disorders and depression, improve food security, and more.

Wisconsin Reservation Offers A Climate Success Story And A Warning

Nicholas Pinter studies floods — where they happen and how humans deal with them. He's particularly interested in places where repeated, severe floods have forced entire towns to move, like the village of Odanah, Wis.

Via NPR

From Molecules to Minds

Vastly more advanced than any supercomputer, the complexity and versatility of the human brain is awe-inspiring. Of all its abilities, learning from new experiences might be the most powerful and astounding feature. But how does learning occur? And how do we remember what we learn?

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UC Davis Joins Network for International Opportunities, Collaboration

The University of California, Davis, has joined an international network of research-intensive universities committed to internationalization and multinational collaboration.

Via UC Davis News

How Experience Changes Basics of Memory Formation

We know that our experiences shape the way we learn. If we are familiar with a task, like cooking, learning a new recipe is easier than it was when we were a novice. New research from the University of California, Davis, shows that experience also changes the way our neurons become plastic and form new memories.

Via UC Davis

Frieders Earns Education Abroad Award

Via UC Davis Global Affairs

"Zachary “Zak” Frieders, director of UC Davis Study Abroad, recently received the Lily von Klemperer Award for leadership in his field, sharing his skills, knowledge and expertise with colleagues, and maintaining the highest standards of professional ethics.

UC Davis Building New Veterinary Hospital

The state-of-the-art facility will be completed in phases over the next 15 years.

via KOVR

UC Davis Honors International Community at Graduation Celebration

Via UC Davis Global Affairs

On June 14, the UC Davis community came together to celebrate the graduation of more than 1,100 international graduate and undergraduate students from 56 countries. To mark such an achievement, Global Affairs hosted an International Graduation Celebration, held amongst the various UC Davis college and school ceremonies.

Farm Robots Need to Be Trusted to Tell Crops From Weeds

Robots will move along fields either spraying herbicides through a pen-like nozzle or pulling weeds as soon as 2019 after their makers perfect programming them to distinguish weeds from crops like tomatoes.

UC Davis Launches Digital Tool in Lebanon to Help Refugees Reclaim Right to Education

Article 26 Backpack, which uses face-to-face counseling and cloud-based technology to help refugees document and share their educational accomplishments, will launch in Lebanon beginning Friday, June 15.

via UC Davis

Harvesting Solutions

What happens when outside factors affect the amount of food people are so used to purchasing? What will food production look like in 20 years?

Closing the loop on sustainable aquaculture