In 2010, an estimated 2.7 million children, and one in nine African American children, had an imprisoned parent.

The Gibe III dam sits on the Omo River, 300km southwest of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital. A designated UNESCO World Heritage site, the Lower Omo Valley is home to five national parks and over 200,000 people. Scholars predict that the dam and its associated plantations will have catastrophic effects for these citizens.

Belinda Martineau, a former genetic engineer and UC Davis Institute for Social Sciences (ISS) grant writer, was one of four experts invited by the UC Global Food Initiative to participate in a panel discussion, "GMOs: All Facts, No Fiction,” on two consecutive evenings at UC Davis and UC Riverside in November 2015. In a follow-up interview, Ben Hinshaw of ISS talked to Martineau about her background in GE food and her thoughts on what consumers deserve to know.

Since the 1950s, the study of Spanish colonial art has fallen out of favor among art historians inclined to view colonial paintings as merely "slavish" reproductions of European originals. But Almerindo Ojeda, professor of linguistics at UC Davis and director of the Project on the Engraved Sources of Spanish Colonial Art (PESSCA), disagrees. Rejecting what he calls an "inferiority complex among colonial historians," Ojeda sees important stories embedded in colonial paintings — stories that deserve to be told.

Roosevelt wanted to end the Great Depression in a way that preserved capitalism and democratic institutions. His decision to take the U.S. off the gold standard was key to the country’s economic recovery. But his monetary policy has been given scant credit — until now.

Gruber was a key architect of Massachusetts’ health reform. During 2009–10 he served as a technical consultant to the Obama Administration and worked to help craft the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In 2011 he was named “One of the Top 25 Most Innovative and Practical Thinkers of Our Time” by Slate Magazine.

In his presentation, Jacobson described how ideological differences between the American national parties have been widening for several decades, and that partisan divisions are now greater than at any time since the Civil War.

Mullainathan's recent book, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, draws on cutting-edge research from behavioral science and economics to show that scarcity creates a similar psychology for everyone struggling to manage with less than they need.