UC Davis is on the leading edge of stem cell research, as one of only two centers in the country funded by the National Institutes of Health to translate human stem cell research into therapies.
With nearly 100 faculty members engaged in research and academic programs, UC Davis is a leader in energy research. the faculty is looking at renewable energy, alternative vehicle fuels (biogas, hydrogen, electricity), and lighting technology.
?UC Davis offerd more than 100 academic majors and 86 graduate programs. It is the only UC campus with schools of law, medicine, education, management, and veterinary medicine.
UC Davis has been ranked No. 1 in the nation for its programs in veterinary medicine, plant biology, and genetics by the Gourman Report. The University is also the national leader for PhD graduates of biological sciences.
Two UC Davis centers—Fuel Cell Vehicles and Hybrid Drivetrains—have been named as U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Centers within the DOE’s Centers of Automotive Technology Excellence program. Their research goal is to develop advanced vehicle power systems. These power systems will spur U.S. automotive research and manufacturing and help solve pressing air-pollution and global-warming problems.
A particle accelerator developed by Tom Cahill, a UC Davis professor of atmospheric science, is being used to track air quality at more than 50 national parks, monuments, and wilderness areas. The technology has already helped reduce smog in the Grand Canyon and has been applied in California to measure air quality problems and find solutions to smog in the Lake Tahoe Basin and the Central Valley.
Statistician David Rocke, professor in the Graduate School of Management and the School of Medicine’s department of epidemiology and preventive medicine, is helping the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to improve the accuracy of very low-level measurements of water pollutants and to develop computer software to conduct the measurements. The project, funded by the EPA, has created a breakthrough model adopted nationally as a voluntary standard for examining water and wastewater.