In exploring the rich tapestry of global cultures, few elements weave as intricate a story as tea. Tracing the spread of tea culture offers a unique lens for art historian Katharine Burnett, professor and co-chair in the Department of Art and Art History, to explore the complex interplay of tradition, globalization, and identity. Burnett’s fascination with tea inspired her to launch UC Davis’s Global Tea Institute for the Study of Tea Culture and Science, which delves into both the cultural and scientific aspects of tea.
Professors of teaching at UC Davis and across the UC System were critical during the unexpected crisis of the pandemic, and now they are helping to shape the way departments face the challenges of educating a growing—and changing—undergraduate population.
Professor Emerita Halifu Osumare returns to campus this month to read from and celebrate her new memoir, "Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop and the Dunham Legacy," with the UC Davis Department of African American and African Studies.
In new research appearing in Physical Review Letters, an international research team, including UC Davis physicists, has expanded the Fermi-Hubbard model, allowing for a more detailed exploration of materials and their properties. In the study, the researchers measured the equation of state for Ytterbium atoms in an optical lattice. Specifically, they used the fermionic isotope 173Yb, which is a metallic element with atoms that can adopt six possible states.
Science fiction is a sandbox for the imagination, one that’s tethered to our greatest hopes and fears, for the future, for technology, for our destiny as a species. We asked a few Department of Science and Technology Studies faculty for their top science fiction recommendations for the eager reader.
Psychologist and neuroscientist Charan Ranganath’s bestselling new book, "Why We Remember," combines the latest research from his field with his own personal experiences to share how memory actually works and the role it plays in our daily lives.
To adult viewers, educational media content for children, such as “Sesame Street” or “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” may seem rather simplistic. The pacing is slow, key themes are often repeated and the visual aspects tend to be plain.
A 30 million year-old fossil whale may not be the heaviest animal of all time after all, according to a new analysis by paleontologists at UC Davis and the Smithsonian Institution. The new analysis puts Perucetus colossus back in the same weight range as modern whales and smaller than the largest blue whales ever recorded. The work is published Feb. 29 in PeerJ.
The Hispanic-Serving Institution Community Council and Dean Estella Atekwana of the UC Davis College of Letters and Science will be meeting Latinx faculty, alumni and communities from the surrounding areas in a celebration at Historic Hotel Woodland on March 6.
We live in a geometric world. From the rectangular skylines of our cities and the orbiting planets of our solar system to the symmetry of butterfly wings and the spiraling double helix of DNA, every shape has its place.
For as long as he can remember, Ryosuke Motani has been fascinated by shapes. And he’s built an illustrious paleobiology career studying them.
Glass artist Josiah McElheny, the winter spotlight artist in The California Studio, explored ideas — and campus — during a week with students and faculty in the UC Davis Department of Art and Art History.
New UC Davis research documents the life of Jotello Soga, the first formally trained veterinarian in southern Africa, whose life and contributions a hundred years ago had been buried under the weight of racial prejudice and South African apartheid.
In response to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s recent death, "Navalny," an Academy Award-winning documentary focused on his 2020 poisoning and life thereafter, will be screened on campus at 1002 Cruess Hall, Feb. 26 at 5:30 p.m., with UC Davis expert-led discussion to follow.
A UC Davis theoretical physicist studying the quantum nature of matter and a mathematician investigating the complexity of large datasets are the recipients of grants totaling more than $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program.
In new research, UC Davis philosopher Elaine Landry finds that the writings of Plato from 2,400 years ago show a better way to think about what’s real in mathematics.