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Featured News

Short Films Wanted!

Students can submit their short films for review and screening at the annual Film Festival, sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Dance in association with Technocultural Studies. Full Story

Music Professors Score

UC Davis music professors Kurt Rohde and Pablo Ortiz have won two of the music world's most prestigious honors: a Rome Prize and an Academy Award in Music. Full Story

Historian of China Honored By Peers

Susan Mann, a renowned historian of China, has been named the 2008 Faculty Research Lecturer by her colleagues at the University of California, Davis. Full Story

Working Memory Has Limited "Slots"

A new study by researchers at UC Davis shows how our very short-term "working memory," which allows the brain to stitch together sensory information, operates. The system retains a limited number of high-resolution images for a few seconds, rather than a wider range of fuzzier impressions. Full Story

Dante Scholar Wins $40,000 Teaching Prize

Brenda Deen Schildgen, an eminent scholar of medieval European literature and biblical studies and one of UC Davis' most esteemed professors, today was named the 2008 recipient of the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement. Full Story

Planned Music Recital Hall Gets $1 Million Boost

Family that lost everything but music gives $1 million for recital hall

A Davis family with a long history of supporting music, science, Japanese-American civil rights and other humanitarian causes has donated $1 million to the UC Davis Department of Music to help build a major new music recital hall. The gift, the largest in the music department’s history, will support construction of a modern, 400-seat performing arts facility on the edge of campus near downtown Davis. Full Story

May 12 Music Alumni Panel Features Banker, Professor and Politician

On May 12, the university and community is invited to attend a panel featuring three music alumni from UC Davis, all who have gone different paths for their careers. Full Story

College Currents: The College of Letters and Science Magazine

College Currents, the College of Letters and Science bi-annual magazine, highlights what's new with the college's students, research, faculty, alumni, and friends. Find out more.

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