With the close of the academic year just around the corner, many in the college are being recognized for the previous year’s accomplishments by campus units. Dr. Nitzan Shabek of the UC Davis Plant Biology Graduate Group (Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology) was awarded with the 2022 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Education.
As Black History Month draws to a close, we celebrate and reflect on the many outstanding achievements and contributions Black Americans have made to our state, our nation and to the world at large.
Of the major food crops, only rice (Oryza sativa) is currently able to survive flooding. Thanks to new research, that could soon change -- good news for a world in which rains are increasing in both frequency and intensity.
This story of how a graduate student, Philip Day, and his two major professors made a significant find didn’t follow a straightforward path. It ended up being a testament to great research, resilience, perseverance, and keen mentoring.
When Anne Britt joined UC Davis as a research scientist in 1990, she traded in studying the bacterium E. coli for the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The trade was a gamble.