Grants Content / Grants Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en California Climate Action Grants Awarded to 4 ºÙºÙÊÓƵ Projects /climate/news/california-climate-action-grants-awarded-4-uc-davis-projects UC awards four ºÙºÙÊÓƵ projects with California Climate Action Grants. They'll focus on solar energy, urban streams, health impacts of wildfires and landscape resilience for California Indian Allotment lands. August 23, 2023 - 5:16pm Katherine E Kerlin /climate/news/california-climate-action-grants-awarded-4-uc-davis-projects $3.5 Million Grant to Study Disease Causing Vision Loss in Children /blog/35-million-grant-study-disease-causing-vision-loss-children <p>Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA) is&nbsp;a rare genetic disease that causes progressive and irreversible vision loss in both eyes starting in the first decade of life. There is currently no treatment for ADOA, which affects approximately 3 people per 100,000 worldwide.</p> <p>ºÙºÙÊÓƵ researchers will use a new 3.5 million grant from the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop a nonhuman primate model of ADOA to speed the development and testing of treatments for humans.</p> February 23, 2023 - 11:16am Andy Fell /blog/35-million-grant-study-disease-causing-vision-loss-children Office of Traffic Safety Awards Grant for Bicyclist and Pedestrian Safety Program /news/office-traffic-safety-awards-grant-bicyclist-and-pedestrian-safety-program <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The University of California, Davis, Police Department has received a $71,250 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety to fund activities emphasizing bicyclist and pedestrian safety.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> January 31, 2023 - 3:39pm Andy Fell /news/office-traffic-safety-awards-grant-bicyclist-and-pedestrian-safety-program Multicampus, Multidisciplinary Grants Awarded /news/multicampus-multidisciplinary-grants-awarded UC awards nearly $17 million to 29 multicampus, multidisciplinary projects, eight of them with ºÙºÙÊÓƵ researchers as the lead principal investigators. January 17, 2023 - 12:50pm Dave Jones /news/multicampus-multidisciplinary-grants-awarded Multicampus Carbon Capture and Conversion Center Launched /blog/carbon-capture-and-conversion-consortium-launched <p>Two ºÙºÙÊÓƵ&nbsp;chemistry professors are part of a&nbsp;new&nbsp;multicampus&nbsp;center aimed at developing basic science for converting carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals.&nbsp;<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The Center for Closing the Carbon Cycle, 4C, is</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>&nbsp;lead by Professor Jenny Yang at UC Irvine and involves investigators from</span></span></span>&nbsp;<span><span><span>12 universities along with three U.S.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> October 10, 2022 - 1:26pm Andy Fell /blog/carbon-capture-and-conversion-consortium-launched NIH Grant Creates National Center at ºÙºÙÊÓƵ /health/news/national-institute-health-grant-creates-national-center-uc-davis <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>A new center that stands to transform surgical procedures and brain monitoring on a national scale using light-based, artificial intelligence-informed technologies will soon be part of <a href="https://aggiesquare.ucdavis.edu">Aggie Square</a> at the University of California, Davis, thanks to a recent $6.3 million P41 grant from NIH’s </span><a href="https://www.nibib.nih.gov/research-funding/national-centers-biomedical-imaging-and-bioengineering"><span>National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering</span></a><span>.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> July 12, 2022 - 11:00am Andy Fell /health/news/national-institute-health-grant-creates-national-center-uc-davis $2.7M Grant to ºÙºÙÊÓƵ to Find New Addiction Treatments Related to Psychedelics /health/news/27m-grant-uc-davis-find-new-addiction-treatments-related-psychedelics <p>Evidence from human and animal testing suggests the brain-altering effects of psychedelics could be repurposed for treating addiction.&nbsp;</p> <p>Now, researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus plan to screen hundreds of compounds to discover new, nonhallucinogenic treatments for substance use disorders. The research is funded by a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health.</p> May 23, 2022 - 2:30pm Andy Fell /health/news/27m-grant-uc-davis-find-new-addiction-treatments-related-psychedelics ºÙºÙÊÓƵ Wins 2 Awards From the W.M. Keck Foundation /health/news/uc-davis-wins-2-awards-w-m-keck-foundation <p class="Body"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>For the first time in university history, the <a href="http://www.wmkeck.org">W.M. Keck Foundation</a> has awarded two research teams at the University of California, Davis, with $1 million each in the same award cycle.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> March 07, 2022 - 9:00am Andy Fell /health/news/uc-davis-wins-2-awards-w-m-keck-foundation Coding for Two Audiences: Humans and Computers /blog/coding-two-audiences-humans-and-computers <p>Software code is written to be read by both computers and humans. Machines quickly and perfectly understand the computational meaning, while humans read it the same way they read natural language: not as quickly and sometimes incorrectly. With a new $1.2M three-year <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2107592">NSF-funded project</a>, a group of software engineers and social scientists at ºÙºÙÊÓƵ will leverage this bimodality to develop tools that make writing, reading and maintaining code easier and improve the overall programming experience.</p> February 14, 2022 - 4:14pm Andy Fell /blog/coding-two-audiences-humans-and-computers EPA-Funded Study Will Look at Children’s Exposure to Chemicals in Household Dust /health/news/epa-funded-study-will-look-childrens-exposure-chemicals-household-dust <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>When it comes to keeping kids safe, parents may not think about household dust as a potential hazard. But those fine particles all around your home can expose kids to a wide range of chemicals.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> October 27, 2021 - 8:30am Andy Fell /health/news/epa-funded-study-will-look-childrens-exposure-chemicals-household-dust