In many classrooms, instructors use touchscreen tablets to operate overhead projectors. They are straightforward tools, but only if the user can see which buttons to press. This summer, University of California, Davis, history lecturer Seth Clark discovered his sight impairment made the tablets challenging to use.
Microfabrication is gaining more importance than ever in the US. Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Erkin Şeker and his lab believe video games may be the answer for training the growing workforce.
During an internship in eastern Uganda in 2018, biosystems engineering Ph.D. candidate Ismael Mayanja first had the idea for what would become Badaye Technologies. This month, Badaye Technologies was recognized by Comstock's Magazine as its startup of the month.
For most people, contracting Zika virus, a flavivirus carried by mosquitos, is akin to getting any mildly inconvenient virus. You might get a fever and a rash, and it's gone in a few days. But for pregnant people, there is a roughly 4% chance that a bite from a mosquito with Zika virus could have life-altering effects on developing fetuses in the form of microcephaly, a neurological condition that indicates an under-developed brain.
Since 2010, the University of California, Davis, Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education, or C-STEM, has aimed to transform K-12 math, computer science and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) education through integrated learning.
This past year, California experienced record-breaking amounts of rain, easing some of the effects of drought. These effects could be beneficial during the upcoming summer season, when wildfires pose a threat to watersheds and communities across the state.
The Farm Robotics Challenge is a national competition for students to create automated solutions to issues farmers face during production. One UC Davis team took the top prize.
Just under a year after the College of Engineering and Dean Richard Corsi launched the Next Level research vision, on March 16 the college hosted the 2023 Next Level Research Showcase to highlight 2022's award recipients, including their advancements in research and lessons learned.
A study published by researchers at Brown University and the Silent Spring Institute has found the Corsi-Rosenthal boxes developed by Dean Richard Corsi to be effective at preventing the spread of additional indoor air pollutants.
A team from Brown University’s School of Public Health, School of Engineering, and Silent Spring Institute analyzed boxes installed at the School of Public Health.
Dean of the College of Engineering Richard Corsi was recently invited by the White House to speak as part of an expert panel at the Summit on Improving Indoor Air Quality on October 11, 2022.