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Rep. Matsui and husband donate to support climate research

Rep. Doris Matsui of Sacramento and her husband, Roger Sant, are propelling UC Davis’ climate work with a gift to Project Carbon, which is developing new, high-tech ways to capture atmospheric carbon dioxide and reduce greenhouse gases.

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Telemedicine pioneer

Tom Nesbitt (B.A., psychology, ’75; M.D. ’79) launched the UC Davis Health System’s first telehealth program in 1992. Nesbitt’s pioneering leadership in telemedicine has been recognized by the American Telemedicine Association and the American Hospital Association.

Health

NCAA’s GSR report features numerous No. 1 scores from UC Davis

The NCAA highlighted why UC Davis is the fifth-ranked public school in the nation when the organization released its annual Graduation Success Rate report on Tuesday.

Education

Unfold Podcast, Episode 9: How climate change is punishing the world’s poor

For the latest and final episode of Unfold, Season 2, podcast host Amy Quinton travels to Kenya to learn more about how climate change and poverty intersect.

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UC Davis receives grant to increase dietary fiber in wheat

The University of California, Davis, has a received a nearly $500,000 Seeding Solutions grant from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) to increase the dietary fiber content in wheat products.

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Low food-safety risk at Northern California farmers markets

Study Examined Prevalence of Salmonella and E. coli on Produce, Meat

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As Anxieties Rise, Californians Buy Hundreds of Thousands More Guns

Handgun sales in California have risen to unprecedented levels during the COVID-19 pandemic, and experts say first-time buyers are driving the trend.

Health

Sustainable alternatives to pesticides: reducing toxic exposure and increasing soil health

The widespread use of soil fumigants—combined with their safety risks and expenditures—has created a need for safe and effective alternatives.

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About 110,000 Californians have bought a gun since the coronavirus arrived, study says

In the first five months of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of Californians bought new guns and changed the way they stored their firearms.

Health

Concerns about violence increases in California amid COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has been linked to an estimated 110,000 firearm purchases in California and increases in individuals’ worries about violence, according to a new study by the UC Davis Violence Prevention Program.

Health

New technology speeds up crop improvement

Gene editing can improve crop performance, but there’s a catch: It can be hard to grow plants from cells after you’ve tweaked their genomes.

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New website dedicated to education and awareness about firearm injury prevention

The BulletPoints Project, part of the University of California’s Firearm Violence Research Center (UCFC), has launched a new resource-rich website to enhance education, training and awareness about firearm injury prevention for medical and mental health professionals.

Health

Cultural burning lights way to ‘rethinking fire’

As wildfires burn bigger, hotter and more frequently each year, state and local agencies, groups and landowners are increasingly looking to Native people — the original land managers — for guidance on living with fire.

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Researchers begin the first wave of US-funded gun injury prevention work in decades

Last week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the recipients of nearly $8 million in funding to 16 research groups across the US to study firearm injury prevention.

Health

UC Davis establishes research, training in cultivated meat

A consortium of researchers at the University of California, Davis, aims to explore the long-term sustainability of cultivated meat, supported by a new grant of up to $3.55 million from the National Science Foundation Growing Convergence program, in addition to previous support from the Good Food Institute and New Harvest.

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