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And The Best School For Agriculture On The Planet Is...

The Modesto Bee | John Holland | Posted 05.11.2013 | San Francisco

A British outfit declared this week that the University of California at Davis, has the No. 1 agricultural school on Earth. The survey by QS World Un...

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UC Postdoctoral Researchers Deserve Equal Pay for Equal Work

Neal Sweeney | Posted 04.03.2013 | College

Read More: UC Santa Cruz, Labor, Ucsd, University of California, Science Research, Ucla, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Uc Riverside, Labor Unions, UC Merced, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, College News

Imagine the surprise of students on guest worker visas when, after arriving at UC, they are told that although the contract the union negotiated states that health care coverage is available to all postdocs, it will not be extended to them.

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LOOK: UC Davis Is A 'Taco School'

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.25.2013 | College

Something has gone wrong here. The University of California-Davis is a "taco school" led by King Arthur, according to Google search results for "UC...

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The Decision to Neuter Pets Just Got More Complicated

Hal Herzog | Posted 05.01.2013 | Science

Read More: Dementia, Cats, Pets, Spay, Neuter, Castrate, Cancer, American Veterinary Association, Dogs, American Kennel Club, UC Davis, Gad Saad, Science News

While neutering reduces suffering in general, it may well put your individual pet at greater risk of a serious disease such as cancer. It's a classic conflict between what is best for the individual versus what is best for society. Is there an alternative to routine de-sexing of pets?

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LOOK: Students Create Awesome Interactive Nap Map For Campus

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 01.30.2013 | College

If you haven't taken a nap in public on campus at least once during your college career, you're doing it wrong. Finding the best spot to catch tho...

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Grad's Invention Makes Ramen Somehow EASIER To Cook

Posted 01.16.2013 | College

Recent University of California, Davis graduate Chris Johnson says his invention - the Rapid Ramen Cooker -- takes all the guesswork out of cooking th...

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Trombone Skiing Goes Downhill (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 01.14.2013 | Weird News

Read More: Lake Tahoe, Trombone Skiing, Video, Ride of the Valkyries, Ski Stunts, Trombone Skiing Video, Skiing Stunts, Downhill Skiing, UC Davis, Sean Pawling Trombone Skiing, Sean Pawling, Los Angeles, Alpine Skiing, Trombone, Weird News News

Call it the new slide trombone. Los Angeles-based musician Sean Pawling played "Ride of the Valkyries" while downhill skiing in Lake Tahoe recent...

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The UC Davis Pepper Spraying Saga Is Finally Over

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 01.10.2013 | College

U.S. District Court Judge John A. Mendez awarded a $1 million settlement Wednesday to the student protesters who were pepper sprayed at point-blank ra...

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Still a "Boys' Club" at the Top of Corporate California

Steve Currall | Posted 02.04.2013 | Business

Read More: Women, UC Davis Graduate School of Management, UC Davis, Steve Currall, Women's Issues, Women in Business, Business News

This year, for the first time, we also looked at ethnicity among the 85 Fortune 1000 companies in California, and only one company in this subset of businesses had an ethnic woman as the CEO. Furthermore, only 13 had any ethnic women directors.

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Stewarding the University of California Dream

Steve Currall | Posted 01.31.2013 | College

Read More: Prop 30, UC Berkeley, California Higher Education, California University System, UC Davis, University of California, Ucla, California Prop 30, College News

The dream of a University of California education has been a historical driver of the upward economic mobility of California's young people. With the passage of Proposition 30, Governor Brown on Nov. 14 said the UC must think anew about how it does business.

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Huge Settlement For UC Davis Pepper Spray Victims

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 09.26.2012 | College

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The University of California system announced Wednesday they will pay $30,000 in damages to each of the 21 students and alumni who were sprayed at a p...

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University of California at Davis Reports Make Dubious Claims on Prop 37

Michele Simon | Posted 11.24.2012 | Green

Read More: Gmos, California, Prop 37, UC Davis, Monsanto, Food Politics, Green News

Regardless of the financial support, "California's Proposition 37: Effects of Mandatory Labeling of GM Food" contains at least one glaring error that's big enough to call into question the entire piece, along with the authors' credibility.

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Verdict In For UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident

AP | Posted 09.20.2012 | San Francisco

Read More: Pepper Spray Video, Pepper Spray Memes, Occupy Pepper Spray, Pepper Spray, Occupy Universities, Occupy Uc Davis, UC Davis, Occupy Colleges, Occupy Davis, Uc Davis Pepper Spray, Video, San Francisco News

DAVIS, Calif. -- The University of California, Davis police officers who doused students and alumni with pepper spray during a campus protest last Nov...

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When Birds Mourn

Ken White | Posted 11.19.2012 | San Francisco

Read More: Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA, Scrub Jays, Animal Behavior, Death and Mourning, UC Davis, Mourning Animals, Animals Mourning, Animal Emotions, San Francisco News

As someone who has spent (happily) most of my life with and around animals, I grow more and more convinced that we have more in common with our fellow inhabitants of the Earth than we may imagine.

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UC Davis Pepper Spray Victims Getting Settlement

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 09.14.2012 | College

Students and alumni pepper sprayed at close range by University of California, Davis campus police will receive a settlement, the UC Regents decided T...

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College Student's Mother Found Her Daughter Hanging From A Tree

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 09.12.2012 | Crime

The heartbroken mother of University of California, Davis, student Linnea Lomax said she is the one who discovered her daughter's body hanging from a ...

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Pepper Spray Cop No Longer Working At UC Davis

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 08.01.2012 | College

Lt. John Pike, the campus police officer who pepper sprayed seated student protesters, is no longer working at the University of California, Davis, th...

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Cop Who Pepper Sprayed Student No Longer On The Force

Sacramento Bee | Sam Stanton | Posted 08.01.2012 | San Francisco

Lt. John Pike, the UC Davis police officer who became a focal point of last November's pepper spraying incident during a campus protest, is no longer ...

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Two UC Davis Neurosurgeons Banned From Human Research

The Huffington Post | Anna Susman | Posted 07.25.2012 | College

Read More: Video, Neurosurgeons Banned, Uc Davis Med School, Rudolph Schrot, Uc Davis Neurosurgeons Banned, UC Davis, J. Paul Muizelaar, College News

Two neurosurgeons from the University of California, Davis have been banned from performing medical research on humans after they allegedly experiment...

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Judge Rules UC Davis Must Name Campus Cops In Pepper-Spray Controversy

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 06.27.2012 | College

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The University of California, Davis must release the names of the campus police involved in the Nov. 18 pepper-spraying of seated, unarmed student pro...

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Ron Paul Spoke Right Next to Where UC Davis Students Were Pepper Sprayed; Nobody Protested

Justin Cox | Posted 07.07.2012 | Politics

Read More: Pepper Spray, UC Davis, John Pike, Libertarian, Ron Paul, Ron Paul Uc Davis, Uc Davis Protests, Uc Davis Pepper Spray, Politics News

if any other Republican presidential candidate were to have stopped by the UC Davis quad to give a campaign speech last week, there's little doubt in my mind that it would have been overshadowed by some form of protest.

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Clown Show at UC Davis -- Too Bad It's Not Funny

Bob Ostertag | Posted 04.20.2012 | College

Remember those videos of campus police pepper spraying seated students in the face at UC Davis last November? Old news, right? Well, it has taken all this time for the task force appointed by the UC president to make its report public.

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Embattled Police Chief Resigns After Notorious Pepper Spray Incident

AP | Posted 06.18.2012 | College

DAVIS, Calif. — The police chief who oversaw the University of California, Davis, police department during its notorious pepper-spraying of Occu...

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UC Davis Investigation: Pepper Spray 'Was Not Authorized'

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 04.11.2012 | College

The task force report on the controversial pepper-spraying of student protesters at the University of California, Davis concluded the campus police an...

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