Native Plants as Landscape

When the Gorman Museum of Native American Art relocated to a new space, campus partners and students worked to make the grounds nearby home to the types of plants traditionally used by Indigenous cultures, such as white sage, a food also used in religious ceremonies, and yarrow, a medicinal herb.

How Plants Fight Microbes

When microbes create new types of illnesses, plants — sometimes with the help of breeders — respond by developing new forms of immunity. That back-and-forth has been a focus of plant geneticist Luca Comai for decades. He is the latest faculty member to be featured in Dateline’s Among the Academies series.

UC Davis Doctor to Olympians

Marcia Faustin has treated athletes at all levels, all the way up to Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles. The Athletics co-head team physician and UC Davis Health assistant clinical professor is the latest guest on Face to Face With Chancellor May.

Lubarsky to Leave UC Davis

David Lubarsky, UC Davis Health’s vice chancellor of human health sciences and chief executive officer, will retire from the university effective Feb. 15. He will then become president and CEO of Westchester Medical Center Health Network in New York.