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UC Davis Discoveries

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We drive
new innovations

UC Davis discoveries have helped to feed a hungry world and treat diseases. We pioneered the electric car and broadband communications. And we’ve rewritten textbooks. We continue to search for the answers to the world’s most interesting and pressing questions.

Agriculture

Our innovations help to feed a hungry world.

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Social sciences

Our research has rewritten history textbooks.

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Medicine

We have saved lives with our medical innovations.

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Biology

We have changed the world’s understanding of living things.

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Engineering

Our engineers have built the future.

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Environment

We have helped to sustain the planet.

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Veterinary Sciences

We innovate to save the lives of all living things.

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Our research

Outgrowing
the expected

To confront today’s most complex problems, it will take a willingness to challenge the way things are done. A culture where discovery pulls from any practice or profession. A place where what’s considered different isn’t at all.

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