As wildfires continue to blaze across California, one UC Davis group is aiming to learn more about the fires' potential effects on the ecosystem of the Lake Tahoe basin.

The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, a group of professors, researchers and graduate students studying sustainable use of the lake, recently installed a fourth air sampler designed to provide detailed analyses of the compounds and toxic materials resulting from forest wildfires.

In the July 28 issue of The California Aggie, the article "UC to open two new medical schools" stated that the UC regents granted approval for the opening of a medical school on the UC Merced campus. The article should have stated that UC Merced has received approval to plan a new medical school. The Aggie regrets the error.

An Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday to lift a February 2007 injunction against UC Berkeley that prevented the building of a new athletic training facility next to Memorial Stadium. The controversy over the new facility centers on its location. In order to build the structure next to the stadium, the university plans to clear 44 trees from a grove of about 80 oaks, redwoods and other trees.

UC Davis Medical Center was named among the nation's top 50 "Best Hospitals" for the 16th consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report in its annual survey of over 5,000 national hospitals. The results were made public July 10 online.

The University of California Board of Regents had the first of many discussions about a faculty proposal aiming to expand the number of freshman applications entitled to review at its meeting earlier this month. The proposal, pending approval from the regents, would take effect in fall of 2012 by eliminating the requirement for applicants to submit two SAT II subject test scores.

In the July 24 issue of The California Aggie, the article "UCD graduate students start water resources website" stated that the website has users in Iraq, when it actually has users in Iran. The article also stated that the site has users in 88 countries, when in reality it has users in 77 countries. The Aggie regrets the errors.

As the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games nears, UC Davis' own husband and wife veterinary team are preparing to lead the Olympic equine veterinary facility.

Jack Snyder and Sharon Spier have worked at every Olympic game since 1988 when they were first asked to help during the Korea games because of their combined experience and the lack of equine veterinarians in Korea at the time.

With the recent approval from the University of California Board of Regents for the creation of two new medical schools, UC is hoping to help alleviate the severe shortage of physicians in California's rural and minority regions.

That antibacterial soap might not be so good for your health after all, according to a new UC Davis study.

A coalition of UC Davis researchers studying two antimicrobial chemical compounds - triclosan and triclocarban - found in a wide variety of hygienic products, recently published an article in Environmental Health Perspectives documenting their discoveries of the negative effects of these chemicals on reproductive hormone activity and cell signaling through studies of human and animal cells.

Graduate students from different departments at UC Davis launched a social bookmarking website in May field called WaterSISWEB, which stands for Scientific Information Syndication Websites, and is dedicated to the water resources.

Kaveh Madani, a Ph.D. candidate in civil and environmental engineering, helped create the site, along with other graduate students from various departments and people on campus.

As increasing numbers of people turn to alternative fuel vehicles, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is funding a $900,000 research project at UC Davis to study the effects of alternative fuel emissions on the changing climate.

Michael Kleeman, the project's lead researcher and professor of civil and environmental engineering, will measure how particles emitted from vehicles powered by gas, ethanol, diesel and bio-diesel change in response to changes in the climate.

For nearly 100 years, the SAT has been used by universities in their admissions process, but a new report out of the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley argues that the SAT is an inferior predictor of student success in college.

Members of the Sacramento community will have the chance to receive free health screenings this Saturday from the UC Davis School of Medicine's student-run clinics at the 10th annual Ulezi Family Health Fair, part of the Oak Park Summer concert series.

Despite preventative efforts by the University of California and the Public Employment Relations Board, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 service workers began a statewide strike Monday.

The University of California is in the process of planning for the implementation of a degree-granting School of Global Health, which is expected to receive funding and begin recruiting faculty in May of 2009.