UC Davis Egghead Blog
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The UC Davis Egghead Blog is updated daily by Andy Fell, an editor with UC Davis University Communications. The blog provides commentary and information on current university research and discoveries, awards received by faculty members, and other university-related items of interest.
The Egghead Blog is named after the Egghead sculptures dotted around campus. The seven sculptures were created in 1989 by Robert Arneson, a UC Davis professor, who intended for students to interact with them, not regard them as art pieces to remain untouched.
UC Davis Egghead Blog
- Ron Baskin, biophysicist
- Ron Baskin, professor emeritus of molecular and cellular biology at UC Davis, passed away July 3. A memorial service will be held this weekend (July 31) at the Episcopal Church of St. Martin in Davis. A full obituary can be found here. Baskin was well-known for his work on biophysics and muscle contraction, as described in [...]
- Monkey studies paved way to successful anti-HIV gel trial
- The 2010 XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, was buzzing with excitement last Monday, July 19th, with the announcement of successful trial results for a vaginal microbicide gel, a recent addition to the arsenal in the fight against HIV infection in women. The phase 2 clinical trial organized [...]
- On TV: Memories of the Manhattan Project
- Watch John Jungerman, professor emeritus of physics, recalling the effort to build the first atomic bomb July 8 and 9 on Davis Community Television (Channel 15 on local cable). Jungerman’s talk, which was given at UC Extension’s Osher Lifetime Learning Institute earlier this year, will be broadcast at 5 pm July 8 and 1 pm [...]
- How the law ignores a fifth of the population
- Legal scholarship barely acknowledges the one-fifth of the U.S. population that lives in rural areas, writes law professor Lisa Pruitt on the School of Law’s faculty blog. Pruitt, who grew up in rural Arkansas, writes that the ‘urban’ population seems to have become the norm in legal writings, with little attention to the needs of [...]
- Videos: UC Davis experts report on oil clean up, demo dispersants
- Two videos on this page. Mike Ziccardi of the UC Davis Oiled Wildlife Care Network reports from the Gulf of Mexico from efforts to treat turtles, dolphins and other animals. The impact on the coast, he says, is “indescribable.” In a second video, UC Davis environmental toxicologist Ron Tjerdeema, who was recently part of a national [...]
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