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The Pain Problem

Allyson Donies Tsuji — December 06, 2017 - 1:54pm

Pain is a pervasive problem that the medical community has not yet addressed in a comprehensive way. That’s the dilemma facing an interdisciplinary group at UC Davis.

A Matter of Rights

Jocelyn C Anderson — June 19, 2017 - 8:56am

Last year, at the abandoned Idomeni train station in Greece, I spoke with Kurdish sisters from Syria. They were living in a makeshift refugee camp on the nearby border with Macedonia. Just a week before, a small boat had carried them across the Aegean from Turkey. Back home, the women, both in their 20s, had studied health sciences at the University of Aleppo.

Aging Gracefully

Jocelyn C Anderson — June 19, 2017 - 8:53am

Information abounds on the kinds of exercise that can keep your body strong, but what will keep your mind healthy? That’s a question researchers hope to answer with the Healthy Brain Aging Initiative, a long-term research project under development among numerous �ٺ��Ƶ departments.

‘Something Very Important Is Happening Here Today’

Dave Jones — April 25, 2017 - 4:34pm

The International Center held its grand opening ceremony last Friday (April 21) in the same multipurpose room where 2½ months ago the Office of Global Affairs held a forum on President Donald Trump’s first set of executive orders on immigration.

“We had a standing-room-only crowd or more than 250 students and scholars and others asking questions and airing their very real concerns over the then-sudden restrictions on immigration and travel,” Interim Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter told the audience that had gathered for the International Center’s grand opening.

Big Ideas: These 13 Are Moving Forward

Dave Jones — January 17, 2017 - 10:52am