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Wells Fargo Scandal Drove Borrowers to Fintech Lenders, UC Davis Study Suggests
The Wells Fargo financial scandal in 2016 diminished consumer trust in traditional banks while driving homebuyers to fintech ...
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Plants Seek Friendly Environments Rather Than Adapt
As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...
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Charles Melton ’08 Named UC Alumni Regent
Charles Melton, a University of California, Davis, alum and public policy leader, has been appointed to serve on the UC Board ...
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UC Davis and Proteus Space to Launch First-Ever Dynamic Digital Twin into Space
The Center for Space Exploration Research at the University of California, Davis, has partnered with Proteus Space to launch ...
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Among the Academies: Building Stronger Bones and Brighter Futures
Physician-scientist Nancy Lane says you have to understand a disease before you can intervene.“Research really allows us to ...
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Aggies at the Helm
What begins at UC Davis doesn’t stop at graduation. For these three alumni, it led all the way to the president’s office — ...
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Massive Burps of Carbon Dioxide Led to Oxygen-less Ocean Environments in the Deep Past
New research from the University of California, Davis, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Texas A&M University reveals that ...
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Health Professions Students From Disadvantaged Backgrounds Often Faced Childhood Adversity
UC Davis graduate health professions students from socially disadvantaged groups are more likely to have had encountered ...
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Disposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes
They may look like travel shampoo bottles and smell like bubblegum, but after a few hundred puffs, some disposable, electronic cigarettes and vape pods release higher amounts of toxic metals than ...
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Big Bang! Business Competition Celebrates 25 Years of Empowering Entrepreneurs
Benjamin Wang ’06, a medical doctor, brought his life-saving innovation to the UC Davis Big Bang! Business Competition in ...
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Study Suggests Remembrances of Dead Played Role in Rise of Architecture in Andean Region
Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture — large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility — were products of societies with power structures, including social hierarchy, ...
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Empowering Mothers Through Innovation
Ijeoma Uche, a third-year MD and Ph.D. student at UC Davis, is blazing a trail at the intersection of medicine, technology ...