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UC Davis-State Team Honored for California's K-12 History Framework

Posted by Kathleen Holder on October 19, 2018
The California History-Social Science Project, headquartered at UC Davis, will share a national K-12 teaching award with the California Department of Education for helping to write the state’s new framework for history-social science instruction in the public schools. The American Historical Association recently announced that it will award its Beveridge Family Teaching Prize to the co-winners.
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Astronomers Find a Cosmic Titan in the Early Universe

Posted by Becky Oskin on October 17, 2018
An international team of astronomers has discovered a titanic structure in the early universe, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. This galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive structure yet found at such a remote time and distance.
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Events Explore Role of Women in German Leadership

Posted by Jeffrey Day on October 16, 2018

The centenary of women’s suffrage in Germany will be marked with several events about women’s suffrage and leadership in Germany presented by the UC Davis College of Letters and Science’s Department of German and Russian on Oct. 22, 23 and 26. 

The events start Oct. 22 with an opening reception for an exhibition on the history of female suffrage in Sproul Hall lobby from noon to 1 p.m. On display through Nov. 8, it will feature posters on the history of women’s right to vote around the world. All posters have been researched and prepared by UC Davis students.

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Professor's Gift Establishes Experimental Thermodynamics Award

Posted by Becky Oskin on October 16, 2018
The American Ceramic Society has a new award to recognize innovative contributions to experimental thermodynamics of solids technical literature. The Navrotsky Award for Experimental Thermodynamics of Solids was established through a gift from Alexandra Navrotsky, Interdisciplinary Professor of Ceramic, Earth, and Environmental Materials Chemistry at UC Davis.
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Artist and Writer David Salle Giving Annual Thiebaud Lecture

Posted by Jeffrey Day on October 15, 2018
David Salle, who became an art star in the 1980s and has also forged a career as an arts writer, will give the Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 1, at UC Davis. “David Salle: How to See” is presented by the Department of Art and Art History in the College of Letters and Science.
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QMAP Grabs Grants for Quantum Information Science

Posted by Becky Oskin on October 09, 2018

The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced $218 million in new grants for “Quantum Information Science” and researchers with the Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics (QMAP) at UC Davis are among the recipients.

The QMAP initiative at UC Davis is aimed at fundamental research in theoretical and mathematical physics.

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NSF Grant Will Fund Food and Tech Study

Posted by Jeffrey Day on October 08, 2018
Technological innovation is transforming agriculture and a UC study funded by a $492,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will explore the booming connections between new technologies, agriculture and food. Charlotte Biltekoff, associate professor and chair of the UC Davis College of Letters and Science’s American studies program, is part of the multi-campus study team.
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Professor Sarah Stewart named MacArthur Fellow

Posted by Becky Oskin on October 04, 2018
Sarah Stewart, professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has been honored with a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship. She is the fourth MacArthur Fellow from the College of Letters and Science and the second in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
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UC Davis Anthropologist Named President-elect of the American Society of Primatologists

Posted by Kathleen Holder on October 03, 2018

UC Davis anthropologist Lynne Isbell, who studies the behavior, ecology and evolutionary history of primates, is the new president-elect of the American Society of Primatologists (ASP).

Isbell, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology in the College of Letters and Science, assumed the elected position during the society’s Aug. 8-11 meeting in San Antonio, Texas. After serving a two-year term, she will become ASP president in August 2020.

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UC Davis Professor’s Paper Spawned Legacy of Research

Posted by Kathleen Holder on September 27, 2018
Little did Phillip Shaver realize when he co-authored a scholarly article on romantic love in 1987 that his findings would transform the study of interpersonal relations. The Society of Personality and Social Psychology recently announced that it will celebrate the legacy of the UC Davis College of Letters and Science distinguished professor emeritus during its Feb. 7–9, 2019, convention in Portland, Oregon.
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Despite Reasoning Abilities, Humans 'Flock'

Posted by Kathleen Holder on September 19, 2018
Even when they're thinking things through, people sometimes behave similarly to others, according to communication research at the University of California, Davis.
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Cuba’s Top Writer Speaking at UC Davis

Posted by Jeffrey Day on September 17, 2018

One of Cuba’s most acclaimed writers, Leonardo Padura, will be giving talks and readings at UC Davis Oct. 24 and 25. Padura is known internationally for his series of Mario Conde detective novels, which have been translated into many languages and made into a Netflix series.

Padura has received the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award, and in 2015 the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras of Spain, one of the most important literary prizes in the Spanish-speaking world.

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