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Surface Ozone Pollution Damages Rice Production in China

Patricia Bailey — March 13, 2017 - 11:00am

Researchers at �鶹��ý and in China have quantified rice-yield losses associated with surface-ozone pollution and pinpointed the growth stage when the plants are most vulnerable.

�鶹��ý Grad Wins New Scholarship for Study in China

IET WebDev — January 11, 2016 - 12:00am

If you've already earned a pilot's license, a black belt in kung fu, an undergraduate degree from �鶹��ý and a great spot in the tech industry, what's next?

James Rizzo, 22, has answered by winning a prestigious new scholarship for a year's graduate study in Beijing at one of China's leading universities.

Rizzo, who grew up in Burbank, California, and now lives in San Francisco, is one of the 111 members of the inaugural class of Schwarzman Scholars selected from more than 3,000 applicants worldwide.

�鶹��ý faculty make their predictions for 2016

IET WebDev — December 22, 2015 - 12:00am

We asked some of our �鶹��ý faculty and researchers what they would predict in the new year in their particular fields of research and expertise. Those predictions appear below by topic.

Immigration

Giovanni Peri, professor of economics; chair, Department of Economics

Improving public service in any language

Robyn Frances Huey — December 09, 2015 - 8:00am

Zhao Zhong had lost his grip on hope of rescue. At 19,000 feet on a Tibetan mountain, 80 feet down the crevice that had swallowed him, he was perched on a thin ridge of ice.

China and �鶹��ý partner to put Zero Emission Vehicles on a faster track

IET WebDev — September 08, 2014 - 10:35am

In a landmark international collaboration on clean vehicle adoption, the University of California, Davis, and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center will work together to help speed the commercialization of plug-in and fuel cell electric cars in China and the U.S. under an agreement signed Sept. 6 in Tianjin, China.