University News

Capsule Captures First Look Inside Digestion in Healthy People

Using a specially designed capsule, researchers can now voyage through the digestive system, collecting new data about digestion and microorganisms. The work by a team including researchers at the University of California, Davis, Stanford University and Envivo Bio Inc., is published May 10 in papers in Nature and Nature Metabolism.

New Leaders in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is delighted to announce the appointment of Mikael Villalobos, Ed.D., as Associate Vice Chancellor for the Office of Campus Community Relations (DEI/OCCR), effective immediately, and Luis Carvajal-Carmona, Ph.D., as Associate Vice Chancellor for the Office of Academic Diversity (DEI/OAD), effective March 1, 2023.

UC Davis Earns National Award for COVID-19 Response

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, or APLU, has honored the University of California, Davis, for its response through Healthy Davis Together to the coronavirus pandemic.

UC Davis joined one other institution, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as the inaugural winners of the APLU Research Response to a Community in Crisis Award, announced Thursday (July 1).