Faculty Recognized for Mentoring Underrepresented, Underserved Students

Cody Kitaura — July 15, 2025 - 2:45pm

Five faculty members have been selected for a 2025 Chancellor’s Fellowship recognizing their work to, in the words of the organizers, “foster a learning environment where all students can develop the skills to be successful.”

Chancellor Gary S. May told recipients he was proud to highlight their “commitment to reducing opportunity gaps for underrepresented students and/or students from underserved communities.”

The recipients, as named by Chancellor Gary S. May and the Academic Senate, are:

Protecting Bees During Disasters

Cody Kitaura — July 15, 2025 - 2:40pm

Patrick Hardy, a master beekeeper in the ɫ��APP��-based California Master Beekeeper Program, or CAMPB, designed and implemented the world’s first, and so far, only honeybee disaster response team. His creation, a nonprofit called Bee Platoon, is designed to protect honeybees and help beekeepers during natural disasters.

“We help small hobbyist beekeepers evacuate their bees, recover beehives after disasters and help first responders move the swarms,” Hardy said. “Those are the three major planks of what we do.”

First Students Move Into Aggie Square

Cody Kitaura — July 15, 2025 - 2:10pm

ɫ��APP�� celebrated a milestone on June 27 with the grand opening of Anova Aggie Square, a six-story smart residential complex that brings on-campus student housing to its Sacramento campus for the first time.

What Cats May Teach Us About Long COVID

Amy M Quinton — July 14, 2025 - 5:00pm

ɫ��APP�� researchers find cats could help us learn about long COVID. They've found a new cell therapy boosts immune systems in cats with severe coronavirus.

ɫ��APP�� and Proteus Space to Launch First-Ever Dynamic Digital Twin into Space

Andy Fell — June 25, 2025 - 10:12am

The Center for Space Exploration Research at the University of California, Davis, has partnered with Proteus Space to launch a US government-sponsored satellite into space with a custom AI-enabled payload in a brand-new, first-ever rapid design-to-deployment small satellite.

The team will launch the satellite and payload in October 2025 from Vandenberg, CA. From the time the project was fully approved, the design and launch will occur within an unprecedented 13 months. (The normal pace for small satellites is often measured in years.)

Public Comments Invited on Police Accreditation

Andy Fell — June 24, 2025 - 2:41pm

A team of assessors from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, or IACLEA, will visit campus July 7 to examine all aspects of the ɫ��APP�� Police Department’s policy and procedures, management, operation and support services. The visit is part of the process to renew the department’s accreditation, a highly prized recognition of campus public safety professional excellence.

Empowering Mothers Through Innovation

Anila Mary Lijo — June 24, 2025 - 12:54pm

Ijeoma Uche, a third-year MD and Ph.D. student at ɫ��APP��, is blazing a trail at the intersection of medicine, technology and health equity. Ijeoma is this month’s guest on Face to Face With Chancellor May.

Among the Academies: Building Stronger Bones and Brighter Futures

Cody Kitaura — June 24, 2025 - 9:53am

Physician-scientist Nancy Lane says you have to understand a disease before you can intervene.

“Research really allows us to carefully evaluate where we are and how we can do better,” she said. “It helps me to treat my patients because I understand the mechanisms of their diseases. Research and science are the building blocks of everything.”

Big Bang! Business Competition Celebrates 25 Years of Empowering Entrepreneurs

Jocelyn C Anderson — June 24, 2025 - 9:03am

Benjamin Wang ’06, a medical doctor, brought his life-saving innovation to the ɫ��APP�� Big Bang! Business Competition in 2014. His team won first place — and Wang credited the experience with helping him launch the venture.

After witnessing a patient die from an antibiotic-resistant infection, he developed NEVAP — a breathing tube designed to prevent bacterial infections in ventilated patients.

"Winning the competition helped to validate the idea that creating a better breathing tube was possible and viable as a business," Wang said.

Massive Burps of Carbon Dioxide Led to Oxygen-less Ocean Environments in the Deep Past

Andy Fell — June 23, 2025 - 12:00pm

New research from the University of California, Davis, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Texas A&M University reveals that massive emissions, or burps, of carbon dioxide from natural earth systems led to significant decreases in ocean oxygen concentrations some 300 million years ago.

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