The Davis City Council voted unanimously to pass the CaliforniaFIRST clean energy finance program last Tuesday.

With the rates of obesity in the United States on the rise, the UC Davis Retiree Center is challenging students, staff, faculty and retirees of the Davis community to increase their health and wellness.

President Obama recognized chemistry professor Susan Kauzlarich’s 22-year commitment to serving underrepresented minorities earlier this month.

Eight universities in California’s higher education system appeared on Kiplinger’s annual Top Affordable Public Colleges List, which has ranked schools in the U.S. since 1998.

Since today’s generation texts at all hours of the day, mobile technology companies are capitalizing on students’ nimble thumbs to promote texting services in new industries. The latest place to send text messages: local and university libraries.

As the UC Commission on the Future prepares its progress report for the regents meeting at UC San Diego today and tomorrow, students who participated in last November’s commission meeting reflect on their objectives.

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Last week, the Davis City Council voted to waive the overnight persons number cap on cold weather shelter facilities. The city set a capacity of the Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter at 25 individuals, although it was increased to 30 during the extreme cold weather period.

In his January State of the State address, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed legislation that would both require a minimum budget allocation of 10 percent for higher education and a ceiling of 7 percent on prison spending.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is more than a federal holiday – it is a day to reflect on civil rights of the past and future.

Dysfunctional, gridlocked and partisan are all common descriptions of the California State Legislature. The intense fight over the budget along with the dragged out battle over water reform just highlighted the problems of the legislative body.

It’s the bathroom, the restroom, the water closet, the loo, the john and the lavatory. (But they only call it the lavatory on airplanes. Believe you me, I’ll tamper with whatever the fuck I want to … including the free tampons they offer.)