College of Letters and Science Content

What Motivates Food Bank Donors?

Jamie Sara Gelfond — October 11, 2024 - 2:23am

In a recent study involving ��ϲ�ͼ�� Professor of Human Ecology Catherine Brinkley, 2.97 millions pounds of food-bank donations from 296 organizations were analyzed to understand the dependencies between community food security and local food movements.

Weekender: Visiting Austrian Composer and Musical Theatre Dance Workshop

Jamie Sara Gelfond — October 10, 2024 - 10:00am

All that jazz. Art. Music. Speakers. In the ��ϲ�ͼ�� Arts Blog.

AI: A Tectonic Shift in Human Society

Andy Fell — October 08, 2024 - 3:59pm

The first time most people could communicate with a computer that responded like a real person was in 2022 when OpenAI publicly launched ChatGPT. Just two months later, the app set the record for the fastest-growing user base with 100 million monthly active users.

From Viruses to Galaxies, How Machine Learning Helps Scientific Discovery

Andy Fell — October 03, 2024 - 3:52pm

Peruse any news media outlet and you’ll probably find an article touting or warning about the potential impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on society. With the advent of publicly accessible generative AI models like ChatGPT, the field is having its moment in the sun like never before.

Weekender: Noon Concert is Back; London Phil Coming to Mondavi

Jamie Sara Gelfond — October 03, 2024 - 9:06am

Comunidad Anquari is first noon concert of fall

Thursday, Oct. 3, 12:05 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, ��ϲ�ͼ��

Ongoing Art Exhibits in Davis

Jamie Sara Gelfond — September 30, 2024 - 1:41pm

Debuting at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art: Phillip Byrne, Beatriz Cortez, Kang Sung Lee, and Candace Lin’s Entangled Writing.

At the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art until Dec. 29, 2024.

Weekender: New Mobile Moo-seum, Movie Screenings, Art Events

Jamie Sara Gelfond — September 25, 2024 - 1:54pm

'Brenda Mallory: In the Absence of Instruction' now at the Gorman Museum of Native American Art

On view through Sunday, Jan. 26, 181 Old Davis Road, Davis, Free

Taking the Earth’s Temperature Over the Past 485 Million Years

Andy Fell — September 19, 2024 - 10:36am

Palm trees in Alaska, crocodiles in Wyoming: Fossils show that Earth’s temperature has changed over hundreds of millions of years. Now a new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona, with Professor Isabel Montañez of the ��ϲ�ͼ�� Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has produced a curve of global mean surface temperatures over the past 485 million years. The new curve, published Sept. 19 in Science, reveals that Earth’s temperature has varied more than previously thought as life has diversified, populated land and endured multiple mass extinctions.

Researchers Identify Tooth Enamel Proteins That Offer Window into Human Health

Karen Michele Nikos — September 19, 2024 - 8:47am

Native Americans living in coastal Northern California during the Mission era were presumed to experience high rates of disease and stress.

Not until now, however, did scientists have hard evidence of their health issues, according to new research conducted in cooperation with Native descendants. A new way of looking at tooth enamel could give scientists a path to deeper understanding of the health of human populations — from the ancient to the modern. It is believed to be the first research of its kind.

Rohde Awarded Commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress

Jamie Sara Gelfond — September 18, 2024 - 7:41am

A ��ϲ�ͼ�� professor recently received a 2024 commission from the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation ) to write a new work for Brightwork New Music