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Five to Vie for School Board
DIXON, CA (MPG) - Dixon Unified School District has two Trustee positions open replacing School Board Trustees Regina Espinoza and David Bowen, and there are now five local people vying for those. The candidates who have completed paperwork are Regina Espinoza, who has served since the resignation of two-term Melissa...
Pro-Palestinian encampment decamps after university does not accept demands
After seven weeks, PULP activists completely remove encampment from the Quad. Earlier this summer, Davis Popular University for the Liberation of Palestine (PULP) announced its official decampment after more than 40 days of occupying space on the Memorial Union Quad. Overnight, the encampment completely decamped. The encampment began with the...
Davis High senior wins rare scholarship for plant medicine research he conducted in Africa
DAVIS -- Most people reading through Max Bloom's research on plant medicine in Africa would be shocked to learn that he is only 17 and about to be a senior at Davis High School.Bloom was inspired after a family vacation to tour the local safaris of Tanzania when he got to interact with the Maasai Tribe and learn about their traditional approach to medicine."I saw them using these plants and I really became interested in that. I came back to the U.S. and started researching them more," Bloom said.He embarked on a solo journey last summer when he was just 15,...
New NSF Center for Pandemic Insights
Preventing the next pandemic begins before diseases emerge. This “pre-emergence” phase is the focus of a new center funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and led by the University of California, Davis. Supported with $18 million over seven years, the U.S. National Science Foundation Center for Pandemic...
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