Campaign Enters Next Phase

As websites and social media accounts across the university speak up today (Oct. 15) in support of federally funded research, the From Labs to Lives campaign that began in February continues to grow, adding perspectives from those who have benefited from that work. In this special edition of Dateline, we present more examples of the impact of federally funded research.

Reinforcing the Safety Net

Federally funded programs at Continuing and Professional Education help evaluate the effectiveness of child welfare and juvenile probation placement systems around the state — a process many counties wouldn’t be able to do on their own. “Our experts coordinate the entire process,” says Julia Hernandez, director of the UC Davis Human Services Research and Evaluation Team.

Learning From Burnt Forests

A program funded by the National Science Foundation is giving Northern California elementary school students the skills to become the next generation of environmental stewards, measuring tree growth, identifying native plants and observing how forests recover after wildfire.

Tech to Restore Autonomy

Work supported by funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health is paving the way for people with paralysis to one day control a computer cursor with the type of brain-computer interface previously used to translate brain signals into speech.

Targeting Gluten in Wheat

Researchers at UC Davis have created a version of wheat that could be less allergenic while still producing high-quality bread, in a project funded in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It represents a critical step forward in celiac disease research, one of the researchers says.

Evaluating Dementia Risk

Sebastian Calonico, a faculty member in the Graduate School of Management, writes about work funded by the National Institutes of Health that is exploring how preventive treatments — such as statins in the U.K. and hypertension control among older U.S. veterans — affect dementia risk.