Grants Content

California Climate Action Grants Awarded to 4 ΢��Ƶ Projects

Katherine E Kerlin — August 23, 2023 - 5:16pm

UC awards four ΢��Ƶ projects with California Climate Action Grants. They'll focus on solar energy, urban streams, health impacts of wildfires and landscape resilience for California Indian Allotment lands.

$3.5 Million Grant to Study Disease Causing Vision Loss in Children

Andy Fell — February 23, 2023 - 11:16am

Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA) is a rare genetic disease that causes progressive and irreversible vision loss in both eyes starting in the first decade of life. There is currently no treatment for ADOA, which affects approximately 3 people per 100,000 worldwide.

΢��Ƶ researchers will use a new 3.5 million grant from the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop a nonhuman primate model of ADOA to speed the development and testing of treatments for humans.

Office of Traffic Safety Awards Grant for Bicyclist and Pedestrian Safety Program

Andy Fell — January 31, 2023 - 3:39pm

The University of California, Davis, Police Department has received a $71,250 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety to fund activities emphasizing bicyclist and pedestrian safety.

Multicampus, Multidisciplinary Grants Awarded

Dave Jones — January 17, 2023 - 12:50pm

UC awards nearly $17 million to 29 multicampus, multidisciplinary projects, eight of them with ΢��Ƶ researchers as the lead principal investigators.

Multicampus Carbon Capture and Conversion Center Launched

Andy Fell — October 10, 2022 - 1:26pm

Two ΢��Ƶ chemistry professors are part of a new multicampus center aimed at developing basic science for converting carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals. The Center for Closing the Carbon Cycle, 4C, is lead by Professor Jenny Yang at UC Irvine and involves investigators from 12 universities along with three U.S.

NIH Grant Creates National Center at ΢��Ƶ

Andy Fell — July 12, 2022 - 11:00am

A new center that stands to transform surgical procedures and brain monitoring on a national scale using light-based, artificial intelligence-informed technologies will soon be part of Aggie Square at the University of California, Davis, thanks to a recent $6.3 million P41 grant from NIH’s National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.

$2.7M Grant to ΢��Ƶ to Find New Addiction Treatments Related to Psychedelics

Andy Fell — May 23, 2022 - 2:30pm

Evidence from human and animal testing suggests the brain-altering effects of psychedelics could be repurposed for treating addiction.

Now, researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus plan to screen hundreds of compounds to discover new, nonhallucinogenic treatments for substance use disorders. The research is funded by a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health.

΢��Ƶ Wins 2 Awards From the W.M. Keck Foundation

Andy Fell — March 07, 2022 - 9:00am

For the first time in university history, the W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded two research teams at the University of California, Davis, with $1 million each in the same award cycle.

Coding for Two Audiences: Humans and Computers

Andy Fell — February 14, 2022 - 4:14pm

Software code is written to be read by both computers and humans. Machines quickly and perfectly understand the computational meaning, while humans read it the same way they read natural language: not as quickly and sometimes incorrectly. With a new $1.2M three-year NSF-funded project, a group of software engineers and social scientists at ΢��Ƶ will leverage this bimodality to develop tools that make writing, reading and maintaining code easier and improve the overall programming experience.

EPA-Funded Study Will Look at Children’s Exposure to Chemicals in Household Dust

Andy Fell — October 27, 2021 - 8:30am

When it comes to keeping kids safe, parents may not think about household dust as a potential hazard. But those fine particles all around your home can expose kids to a wide range of chemicals.