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Poor swelter as urban areas of U.S. Southwest get hotter

February 24, 2021 by Kathleen Wong

poor swelter with climate change

By Karen Nikos-Rose, UC Davis | February 18, 2021 Acres of asphalt parking lots, unshaded roads, dense apartment complexes and neighborhoods with few parks have taken their toll on the poor. As climate change accelerates, low-income districts in the Southwestern United States are 4 to 7 degrees hotter in Fahrenheit — on average — than wealthy neighborhoods in the same metro ... Continue Reading »

Evidence mounts that eco-friendly wine tastes better

February 12, 2021 by Kathleen Wong

organic wine

David Colgan, UC Los Angeles | February 8, 2021 Consumers have shown that they are willing to pay extra for organic produce grown without pesticides, even if it doesn’t taste better. That has not been the case for organic wine. Organic-labeled wines generally sell at prices similar to those of non-organic wines. And that’s despite growing evidence that they actually do ... Continue Reading »

Chumash may have developed the first currency in the Americas

February 12, 2021 by Kathleen Wong

shell currency

By Jim Logan, UC Santa Barbara As one of the most experienced archaeologists studying California’s Native Americans, Lynn Gamble knew the Chumash Indians had been using shell beads as money for at least 800 years.  But an exhaustive review of some of the shell bead record led the UC Santa Barbara professor emerita of anthropology to an astonishing ... Continue Reading »

UCLA, where Korean is the hot language, goes beyond ‘dead white men’ in European studies

January 8, 2021 by lwangdu

By TERESA WATANABE STAFF WRITER FEB. 8, 2021 5 AM PT UCLA senior Yumeng Zhuang fell in love with physics and philosophy as a high school student in her native China. That passion led her to Albert Einstein and Immanuel Kant — and then to a desire to study German so she could read their works as originally written. But her parents weren’t thrilled, pushing her to perfect ... Continue Reading »

UC Davis 2nd for Social Mobility Among National Public Universities

September 1, 2020 by lwangdu

By Julia Ann Easley on September 1, 2020 in University The University of California, Davis, is distinguished among public universities for the upward social mobility it offers graduates, according to Washington Monthly’s annual assessment of U.S. schools based on what they do for the public good. Washington Monthly’s annual college rankings, published online today ... Continue Reading »

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