Congratulations to Wai Lone Jonathan Ho, a graduating senior majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology, for being one of the recipients of this year’s Ronald and Lydia Baskin Research Award and the recipient of the College of Biological Sciences Medal.
StudentSphere is a community-service based organization that assists families with children affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since its launch, the program has amassed over 100 college student volunteers from across the nation and has created over 80 mentor-mentee relationships.
A nearly $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health-National Institute of General Medical Sciences will help the UC Davis Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) program usher in a new era of leaders in the biomedical and behavior research fields
The Genentech Foundation has donated $2.5 million to the University of California, Davis, College of Biological Sciences — the college’s largest single gift ever — to fund a program that will help biology students transferring from community college.
Congratulations are in order for undergraduates Jayashri Viswanathan and Naomi Murray. Both join the 2020-2021 class of Goldwater Scholars, a prestigious undergraduate award program that encourages students to pursue research careers in the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics.
The newly minted “CBS COVID-19 Capstone” course explores the biological intersections of virology, evolution and ecology, computational biology, molecular genetics and other disciplines to give upper-division students an opportunity to investigate and deconstruct the coronavirus crisis.
Need some social distancing tips? Assistant Professor Celina Juliano, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, recently asked her students about their spring break plans. She shared their answers via her lab's Twitter account @Juliano_Lab.
Chemistry magic dazzled students from Woodland’s Lee Middle School during a campus visit to UC Davis. The event was not only an opportunity for Lee Middle School students to see science in action, it was an opportunity for them to meet their UC Davis pen pals.
This past summer, undergraduate Amanda Nguyen traveled just south of Tokyo, Japan, to research the memory of itch through the NIGINTERN Program—a competitive summer internship hosted by the National Institute of Genetics at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI).
Over the past three years, undergraduate Jonathan Ho and his colleagues have raised over $50,000 for a community garden project in Knights Landing. In 2020, they'll work with Yolo County to fully establish the garden and begin conducting community activities.
