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UC Davis Veterinarians Honored For Saving K-9 Officer’s Life

This past March, seven-year-old K-9 Haakon was taken to the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Hospital for a ruptured bladder. A special ceremony recognized the lifesaving work of the UC Davis doctors.

Via CBS Sacramento

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How Virtual Reality is Transforming Autism Studies

Autism therapists and researchers often use virtual reality to help autistic people rehearse stressful encounters. Peter Mundy, a psychologist with UC Davis developed an application that lets autistic children practice public speaking in a virtual classroom with an audience of eight avatars.

Via Spectrum News

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Gene Network Lets Plant Roots Handle Nitrogen

With robotics, computers and advanced genetics, researchers at the University of California, Davis, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have established a core set of genes that help plants metabolize nitrogen, the key to plant growth and crop yield.

Via College of Biological Sciences

Sustainability

Experts Design World Where People Age Better

Experts design world where people age better

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Heat is a Serious Threat to Dairy Cows – We’re Finding Innovative Ways to Keep Them Cool

Dairy farmers use fans and sprayers to cool cows in their barns, but there is a substantial need for better options. Existing systems use a lot of energy and water, which is costly for farmers. And climate change is raising temperatures and stressing California’s water supplies.

Via The Conversation

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How to Stop Mass Shootings

Two policies exist today that if properly designed, widely enacted, and adequately implemented would likely have saved lives lost in past mass shootings and could potentially save many more in the future. Their benefits would extend far beyond reducing the incidence of mass shootings.

Podcast and Article via New England Journal of Medicine

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Fragile X

A young Scottish girl is getting help from the UC Davis MIND Institute that she cannot get at home: care for a rare disorder known as Fragile X.

Via KCRA 3

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Carr Fire Bear Continues Her 'Remarkable Recovery'

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

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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.

Via Global Affairs

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Digital 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.

Via UC Davis School of Medicine

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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

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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?

Via UC Davis

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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

Education

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

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Frieders Earns Education Abroad Award

"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.

Via UC Davis Global Affairs

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