The California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) was recently awarded $4.2 million from the California Energy Commission to develop and demonstrate renewable energy and high-quality outdoor lighting systems in low-income communities.
Unfold, a UC Davis podcast, recently launched its third season with College of Letters and Science researchers talking about “Why Is That Song Stuck in My Head?” The episode examines music, memory and what "earworms" — those songs that get stuck in your head — can teach us about how the brain works.
A new brain imaging study from the Center for Neuroscience at UC Davis shows that the hippocampus is the brain’s storyteller, connecting separate, distant events into a single narrative.
A study by UC Davis College of Letters and Science researchers finds that the framing of sexual assaults — and the use of some linguistic features in news reports — can contribute to uncivil social media posts.
Thousands of people kept up with California political news by reading The Nooner, a daily nonpartisan email newsletter produced by UC Davis alumnus Scott Lay. This week, readers learned from The Nooner that Lay had died at age 48.
The Smithsonian Institution will center a virtual symposium this month around groundbreaking research by UC Davis history professor Andrés Reséndez on the enslavement of Native Americans.
Robert Bayley, a UC Davis professor of linguistics, was recently named a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America for distinguished contributions to his discipline.
Facebook recently awarded two grants to the Department of Communication researchers in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science to study misinformation and polarization on social media.
How do we make decisions about a situation we have not encountered before? New work from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain shows that we can solve abstract problems in the same way that we can find a novel route between two known locations — by using an internal cognitive map. The work was published Aug. 31 in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Lauren Peters, a UC Davis Native American studies doctoral student, and her family recently returned the remains of their grandmother's aunt, Sophia Tetoff, to her native Aleut island in Alaska. In 1896 the 12-year-old orphan was sent to an Indian school in Pennsylvania where she died five years later and was buried. The Peterses are among the hundreds of Native families retrieving their ancestors from school cemeteries in the United States and Canada. They are believed to be the first to return a Native child to Alaska.
