Understanding How Students Learn Through Virtual Reality

• by Alex Russell
• March 25, 2024

• Society, Arts & Culture

The little boy, about 7 years old, almost disappeared inside the virtual reality headset, yet the way he was holding up his hands showed he knew exactly what to do. A laptop screen showed what he was seeing: digital outlines of hands manipulating Tetris-like blocks. A hand turned a block to make it fit, then picked up another.

Encouraging Latinx Youth to Embrace Ethnic Pride Can Enhance Their Well-Being

• by Karen Nikos-Rose
• July 24, 2023

• Society, Arts & Culture

Encouraging Latinx adolescents of Mexican origin to embrace their ethnic pride, cultural values, and connections to their cultural community contributes to positive development and better adjustment during adolescence, a new University of California, Davis, psychology study suggests.

Collecting Stories from Black Vallejo: An Interview with Julie Sze

• by Julie Sze
• May 03, 2023

• Society, Arts & Culture

Julie Sze spoke to UCHRI Research Grants Manager, Sara Černe, for a new Foundry series highlighting the work of the Institute’s recent grantees and the methods, unorthodox approaches, and challenges they have employed and encountered. The interview took place over Zoom and was edited for length and clarity.

UC Davis Team Develops Online Tool to View General Plans Across California

• by Tiffany Dobbyn
• February 06, 2023

• Society, Arts & Culture

University of California, Davis, researchers have launched a new online database that can help community members, policymakers and advocates view and compare local governments’ vision for the future with the California General Plan Database Mapping Tool.

UC Davis, Girl Scouts Partner on Patch Series

• by Karen Michele Nikos-Rose
• November 22, 2022

• Society, Arts & Culture

The University of California, Davis, and Girl Scouts Heart of Central California, or GSHCC, have teamed up to encourage Girl Scouts in the region to participate in a custom patch series with activities that take participants through various areas of the university campus and expose Girl Scouts to STEM-specific majors and colleges within the university.

Citizen Scientists Help UC Davis Researchers Spread Native Plant Seeds in Urban Areas

• by Tiffany Dobbyn
• November 15, 2022

• Society, Arts & Culture
• Science & Technology

Bus stops, bike paths, sidewalks and other spots often overlooked in the community will become areas of beauty — for the sake of science.

Help Paint a Climate-Action Mural

• by Daniel Park
• March 22, 2022

• Society, Arts & Culture

Community members of all ages are invited to help paint a mural on the side of a barn along a well-traveled road between Davis and Woodland, in the culmination of the UC Davis Climate Raising Challenge.

New Program Brings Leading Contemporary Artists to UC Davis Classrooms

• by Jeffrey Day
• September 21, 2021

• Society, Arts & Culture

"Internationally known contemporary artists who have exhibited widely their sculptures, performance art, paintings and other works will engage with students and the public beginning this fall as artists and teaching artists-in-residence at the University of California, Davis.

Honoring Black Sacramento History

• April 28, 2021

• Society, Arts & Culture

Funded by a grant from California Humanities and co-sponsored by the UC Davis Department of African and African American Studies and the Center for Sacramento History, the Reframing Sacramento Series examines the history, diverse communities,  and current climate of the city, emphasizing those voices that have too often been left out.

A Youth Poetry Star of Our Own

• January 26, 2021

• Society, Arts & Culture

Sacramento Area Youth Speaks (SAYS) participant Alexandra Huynh has been named the Youth Poet Laureate Western Regional Ambassador and will advance as a finalist in the National Youth Poet Laureate competition

Vaccine Myths on Social Media Can Be Effectively Reduced With Credible Fact Checking

• January 11, 2021

• Society, Arts & Culture

Social media misinformation can negatively influence people’s attitudes about vaccine safety and effectiveness, but credible organizations — such as research universities and health institutions — can play a pivotal role in debunking myths with simple tags that link to factual information.

Despite Challenges, 2020 Mellon Public Scholars Show Resilience and Compassion in their Work

• December 14, 2020

• Society, Arts & Culture

The projects this year's Mellon Public Scholars completed over the summer of 2020 generated structures of community care, built platforms for art and stories from marginalized communities, provided necessary perspectives on systemic injustice, and served as examples of public scholarship’s crucial role in today’s world.

Claudia Rankine Brings Her Work off the Page

• November 16, 2020

• Society, Arts & Culture

On November 4, 2020, poet, essayist, playwright, and editor Claudia Rankine delivered a virtual reading and lecture at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis based on her new book, Just Us: An American Conversation.

Professor and Troupe ‘Deliver Democracy’

• November 04, 2020

• Society, Arts & Culture

Theatre professor Larry Bogad and his dancing mailboxes have been “Delivering Democracy” this election season, capturing media attention for their artistic activism.

Historians to Digitize Endangered Peruvian Archive

• October 10, 2020

• Society, Arts & Culture

A new project led by UC Davis historian Charles Walker will digitize documents of the Peruvian Peasant Confederation (Confederación Campesina del Perú, or CCP) and make them accessible online.