Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to develop new technologies and workforce training programs to grow plants in low-resource environments both on Earth and in space.
Driven by a desire to cure diseases, Kevin Zhongchao Zhao joins UC Davis as a chemical engineering faculty member who aims to create targeted therapies for cancer by engineering virus-like nanoparticles.
A new Scientific Reports study by UC Davis Coffee Center researchers shows that coffee beans follow a universal color curve during roasting, offering significant implications for the coffee industry and how “light,” “medium” and “dark” roast levels could be more consistently defined.
