Research | Public Scholarship and Engagement

Tahoe’s State of the Lake Report for 2020

Today, the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center released its annual Tahoe: State of the Lake Report. The report informs nonscientists about important factors affecting the health of Lake Tahoe.

Environment

UC Davis, Caltrans Partner to Prevent Wrong-Way Driver Crashes

Caltrans and the UC Davis Advanced Highway Maintenance and Construction Technology (AHMCT) Research Center today released two reports highlighting ways to prevent rare but often deadly collisions involving wrong-way drivers.

Environment

Asking Different Questions

Addressing Privilege and Anti-Blackness in Research Culture

What are we doing to address ongoing anti-Blackness and amend for generations of exclusion? How must our departments, professional organizations, research systems, mentoring practices, and administrative structures change?

Jul 14, 2020 @ 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Half the Earth Relatively Intact From Global Human Influence

Roughly half of Earth’s ice-free land remains without significant human influence, according to a study from a team of international researchers led by the National Geographic Society and the University of California, Davis.

Environment

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CA&ES faculty receive funding for a diverse array of public impact research projects

Public Scholarship and Engagement has awarded funding to 14 new research projects, including five to faculty in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, that will address diverse issues such as climate change, the welfare of families, and cultivating a new grain crop

University News

New Grants for Public Impact Research Spur and Deepen Campus-Community Partnerships

As part of the Public Impact Research Initiative, Public Scholarship and Engagement recently awarded grants to support the development of new research collaborations and to deepen, sustain, or evaluate existing collaborative research.

Announcements

College of Biological Sciences Launches Capstone COVID-19 Virtual Lab Course

The University of California, Davis, College of Biological Sciences is providing undergraduates with a unique opportunity to study the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in real time. The newly minted CBS COVID-19 capstone course combines several existing laboratory courses that would have been held in spring quarter.

Science & Technology

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Community-based Participatory Research in Imperial Valley, CA

Join Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (WCAHS) for their Monthly Seminar Series.

Mar 2, 2020 @ 4:00pm - 5:00pm
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New Public Impact Research Initiative: Call for Grant Proposals

Public Scholarship and Engagement is excited to announce the launch of the Public Impact Research Initiative. The new initiative was designed to recognize and support publicly-engaged research at UC Davis. For its inaugural year, the Public Impact Research Initiative is offering grants that will support research activities with non-university partners in one of the two following categories:

Announcements

Can DUI convictions help keep guns out of the hands of people prone to violence?

A UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program study that set out to track about 80,000 legal gun purchasers in California found that handgun buyers with a DUI on their record were more likely to go on to be arrested for a violent crime.

Science & Technology