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Professor Shahid Siddique has been named the Howard Ferris Endowed Chair in Ecology and Management of Plant and Soil Nematodes, a position that will help support his work studying the tiny organisms that can have a significant impact on crops and soil health.

It’s been a busy summer, with students and researchers working on so many interesting projects and discoveries. Here in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, we have taken this time to reflect on the past academic year and are using this period to prepare for the next class of students arriving this fall.

Tobacco products and food often share shelf space in neighborhood stores. A research team led by the University of California, Davis, examined those shelves to see whether a Sacramento city policy was actually increasing access to healthy food.

A group of students from the University of California, Davis, spent the summer helping imagine how young people might experience the nation’s first museum dedicated to preventing violence. Through a six-week internship, they designed concepts for the Courage Museum, where exhibits will encourage visitors to practice empathy, build courage and explore the role they can play in creating safer and more connected communities.

Professor Steven Sadro is the new chair of the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis. Sadro, who joined the faculty in 2015, is a freshwater ecologist who studies how lakes and streams respond to environmental change.

The University of California, Davis, has joined the Board on Health and Human Sciences within the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, with Associate Dean of Human and Social Sciences Amanda Guyer serving as the university’s representative on the national leadership group.

When two major wildfires burned through the Sierra Nevada in 2020 and 2021, they took thousands of giant sequoia trees with them. Without prescribed burns, thousands more would have died, according to a new study from the University of California, Davis. 

A summer beach day in Oregon often involves a cool, gray blanket of fog that not only shapes the experience of beachgoers, but also the coastal and inland environment. 

Now, commercially available surfing webcams are helping scientists measure Oregon’s coastal fog, according to a study from the University of California, Davis, in collaboration with the USDA Forest Service. 

The University of California, Davis, Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) today released its “

If you've been reaching for chips, mayonnaise or salad dressing labeled "made with avocado oil," there's a good chance the oil inside isn't pure avocado oil, despite it being the only listed oil ingredient. University of California, Davis, researchers tested processed foods marketed as containing avocado oil. They found 48 of the 54 avocado oil-labeled products were adulterated with cheaper oils. The study was published in Applied Food Research.