Lecture Honors Donor, Growth of Persian Studies

What better way to celebrate UC Davis’ expanding program in Persian studies and its generous benefactor than with a lecture on modern Iranian women writers? An event at the Buehler Alumni Center featured a talk by Nasrin Rahimieh, a professor of humanities at UC Irvine and past president of the International Society for Iranian Studies.

Breaking the Strongest Link Triggered Big Baja Earthquake

A spate of major earthquakes on small faults could overturn traditional views about how earthquakes start, according to a study from researchers at the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior in Ensenada, Mexico, and the University of California, Davis.

Brain Prioritizes High-Reward Memories

Why do we remember some events, places and things, but not others? Our brains prioritize rewarding memories over others, and reinforce them by replaying them when we are at rest, according to UC Davis research published in the journal Neuron.

1992 - Kristie Macosko Krieger 

Kristie Macosko Krieger (B.A., sociology, ’92) was nominated for an Academy Award for Bridge of Spies in 2016. She was a producer on the film, her fourth producing credit.
 

Border Studies Initiative Examines ‘Racialized Belonging’

Defining borders, looking at who is crossing them and who we allow and don’t allow to cross them, are some of the issues the UC Davis Comparative Border Studies Initiative investigates. The next event of the Mellon Foundation funded three-year initiative will focus on the topic “Human Rights, Citizenship and Racialized Belonging.”

Crossing Boundaries: Comparative Border Studies

On the eve of its winter 2016 keynote event, we look at the interdisciplinary work of the Mellon Initiative in Comparative Border Studies at UC Davis.

As the only program of its kind in the UC system, the Comparative Border Studies initiative seeks to challenge the ways in which borders have shaped our thinking about them. Co-directors Sunaina Maira (professor of Asian American studies) and Robert Irwin (professor of Spanish and Portuguese and chair of Cultural Studies) want to explore border/ing e