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Past Issues

Cover photo: A student looks surprised by a werewolf hand reaching from her book to her face. Book title reads Bloody good literature.

Volume 32, Number 2, Spring 2015

Feature Stories:

  • Still alive
  • From pines to pixels
  • Pandemic busters
  • Sports: Fan makers
cover illustration of scientists Watson and Crick with DNA code in background

Volume 32, Number 1, Fall 2014

Feature Stories:

  • Disarming a Trojan horse
  • Hot crops
  • Freeborn Hall retrospective
Cover photo: portrait of Margrit Mondavi painting a watercolor

Volume 31, Number 3, Summer 2014

Feature Stories:

  • Gooooaaaal—and beyond!
  • Margrit Mondavi
  • The doctor is online
Cover photo: close-up of dachsund peering over bottom edge of cover

Volume 31, Number 2, Spring 2014

Feature Stories:

  • A Watershed Momentum
  • Banking on Shan Li
  • 100 Picnic Days
cover illustration of scientists Watson and Crick with DNA code in background

Volume 31, Number 1, Fall 2013

Feature Stories:

  • Enter the Genomics Matrix
  • The Master of the Art of the Possible
  • A Classic Rivalry
architects' vision of a new art museum

Volume 30, Number 4, Summer 2013

Feature Stories:

  • Driving Innovation
  • Cover story: A museum for the 21st century
  • The young and the inventive
cover image of a food science graduate student

Volume 30, Number 3, Spring 2013

Feature Stories:

  • Here come the foodies!
  • Recipe for a food-science fusion
  • ¡Salud!
Silhouettes of a group of people with horizon of grass and sky showing through cut-outs

Volume 30, Number 2, Winter 2013

Feature Stories:

  • Cover story: Thinking forward
  • Museum builder
  • Classroom to go
Repeating text across magazine cover: The uncertain fate of higher education

Volume 30, Number 1, Fall 2012

Feature Stories:

  • The uncertain fate of higher education
  • Commentary: Involved much?
  • Queen of the CoHo
  • Double Duty
Photo of garden trail

Volume 29, Number 4, Summer 2012

Feature Stories:

  • Defenders of the Salish Sea
  • Common ground
  • Outside the box
  • Office hours: Andy Jones
Cover image: photo of Professor Andrew Hargadon, an expert on innovation

Volume 29, Number 3, Spring 2012

Feature Stories:

  • There's no place like dome
  • A pound of cure
  • Making sense of innovation
Cover image: winter 2012 cover with father-daughter on tandem bike pedaling through UC Davis West Village

Volume 29, Number 2, Winter 2012

Feature Stories:

  • Campus protests:continuing the dialogue
  • A tree grows in Oakland
  • Yiyun Li
  • UC Davis West Village
fall 2011 cover: mother and infant gorillas

Volume 29, Number 1, Fall 2011

Feature Stories:

  • The military goes to college
  • Fixing our broken state
  • One health
summer 2011 cover: illustration of clock with falling portraits of Middle East authoritarian leaders

Volume 28, Number 4, Summer 2011

Feature Stories:

  • Building democracy in the Middle East
  • Bringing history to life
  • Nurturing a rare breed
Photo: female student jumping for joy

Volume 28, Number 3, Spring 2011

Feature Stories:

  • Immigration ER
  • CSI: Nairobi
  • The Pursuit of Happiness
spring 2010 cover: illustration of 1939 football team member Mitsuo Nitta

Volume 28, Number 2, Winter 2011

Feature Stories:

  • The buzz on beer
  • Up close with Amy G.
  • The Campaign for UC Davis
fall 2010 cover photo: neuroscientist Clifford Saron and the Dalai Lama

Volume 28, Number 1, Fall 2010

Feature Stories:

  • Supreme Justice
  • Worth Contemplating
  • Oil Spill Rx
summer 2010 cover photo illustration: students protesting fee hikes

Volume 27, Number 4, Summer 2010

Feature Stories:

  • Drawing on Culture
  • Rebels With a Cause
  • Aggies Abroad
spring 2010 cover: illustration of 1939 football team member Mitsuo Nitta

Volume 27, Number 3, Spring 2010

Feature Stories:

  • Darrell Steinberg
  • 14–12
  • Degrees of Justice
winter 2010 cover

Volume 27, Number 2, Winter 2010

Feature Stories:

  • In Print: Arnold Bauer and the Codex Cardona
  • Hungry Garden
  • Tiny Packets of Hope
fall 2009 cover

Volume 27, Number 1, Fall 2009

Feature Stories:

  • Vets' Pets
  • Linda Katehi Q&A
  • Education for All
Summer 2009 cover

Volume 26, Number 4, Summer 2009

Feature Stories:

  • Hope Takes Flight in Peru
  • Vanderhoef
  • Passing the Baton
  • Women in wine
Spring 2009 cover

Volume 26, Number 3, Spring 2009

Feature Stories:

  • Informed Dissent
  • A Shot at the Stage
  • At Home in Nature
Winter 2009 cover

Volume 26, Number 2, Winter 2009

Feature Stories:

  • SeXX Shift
  • An Anniversary Visit
  • Troubled Waters in Tanzania
  • Prized Writing
Fall 2008 cover

Volume 26, Number 1, Fall 2008

Feature Stories:

  • Lost Traditions
  • Land of Plenty
  • 100 Ways UC Davis Has Transformed the World
  • The Second Century
Summer 2008 cover

Volume 25, Number 4, Summer 2008

Feature Stories:

  • Planting the Seeds of Change
  • Centennial Celebration
  • Green All Over
Spring 2008 cover

Volume 25, Number 3, Spring 2008

Feature Stories:

  • Survival of the Richest
  • Cosmic Convergence
  • Dirty Work and Dream Jobs
  • Beyond the Bottom Line
Winter 2008 cover

Volume 25, Number 2, Winter 2008

Feature Stories:

  • Where Are My Keys?
  • Let's Make a Movie!
  • A Painted Pony
  • Making a Maestro
Fall 2007 cover

Volume 25, Number 1, Fall 2007

Feature Stories:

  • Storybook Time
  • UC Davis Celebrates a Century
  • New Era for Athletics
  • It's Just a Phase . . . Isn't It?
Summer 2007 cover

Volume 24, Number 4, Summer 2007

Feature Stories:

  • Future Power
  • Photo Egg-cellence
  • The Summer of Love Lives On
Spring 2007 cover

Volume 24, Number 3, Spring 2007

Feature Stories:

  • On the Trail of a Killer
  • Troubled Minds
  • Fashion Forward
  • Upstaging the Establishment
Winter 2007 cover

Volume 24, Number 2, Winter 2007

Feature Stories:

  • Farm Medicine
  • The Children's Ambassador
  • Green Building for a Blue Lake
  • Air Crusader
Fall 2006 cover

Volume 24, Number 1, Fall 2006

Feature Stories:

  • An Incomplete History of the California Aggie
  • China Road
  • Trial by Fire
Summer 2006 cover

Volume 23, Number 4, Summer 2006

Feature Stories:

  • Epidemics on the Horizon
  • Making Hip-Hop History
  • Just Write
Spring 2006 cover

Volume 23, Number 3, Spring 2006

Feature Stories:

  • Poverty in the Land of Plenty
  • Something in the Air
  • Camp Davis, Tanzania
Winter 2006 cover

Volume 23, Number 2, Winter 2006

Feature Stories:

  • Headed for a Bad Break
  • Farm vs. Farm
  • Pay Dirt
  • Corps Curriculum
Fall 2005 cover

Volume 23, Number 1, Fall 2005

Feature Stories:

  • It's About Living
  • Malware
  • Fat Cats and Pudgy Pooches
  • The Big Picture
Summer 2005 cover

Volume 22, Number 4, Summer 2005

Feature Stories:

  • Talkin' Bout Their Generation
  • Our House
  • Dealing with Defeat
Spring 2005 cover

Volume 22, Number 3, Spring 2005

Feature Stories:

  • Take Your Veggies
  • Stolen Shores
  • Chilean Fresh
  • Q&A with the U.S. Treasurer
Summer 2004 cover

Volume 22, Number 2, Winter 2005

Feature Stories:

  • Unraveling the Gordian Knot
  • State of the Arc
  • Walking in Two Worlds Disappearing Act
  • Aggie NCAA Woman of the Year — Again!
Summer 2004 cover

Volume 22, Number 1, Fall 2004

Feature Stories:

  • Just Add Water
  • Into Iran
  • Fear, Itself
  • New Leash on Life
  • M.D. — Against All Odds
Summer 2004 cover

Volume 21, Number 4, Summer 2004

Feature Stories:

  • Cuba Backstage
  • Assignment Vietnam
  • Big Fish
  • Free-loaders
Spring 2004 cover

Volume 21, Number 3, Spring 2004

Feature Stories:

  • Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
  • Fungus Among Us
  • The New Slave Trade
  • How Old Can We Grow?
Winter 2004 cover

Volume 21, Number 2, Winter 2004

Feature Stories:

  • Rediscovering a Treasure
  • Zzzzzzz
  • Unbridled Activist
  • Class Without Walls
Fall 2003 cover

Volume 21, Number 1, Fall 2003

Feature Stories:

  • Open 24 Hours
  • Unseen Places
  • Eden Again
  • Educating Innovators
Summer 2003 cover

Volume 20, Number 4, Summer 2003

Feature Stories:

  • We Turn 20
  • The Value of Flattened Flora
  • Between Two Worlds
Spring 2003 cover

Volume 20, Number 3, Spring 2003

Feature Stories:

  • Blood Spots, Bullets and Burned
  • Buildings
  • The Aliens Among Us
  • Clinical Trials
  • Do Only Fools Pay Taxes?
Winter 2003 cover

Volume 20, Number 2, Winter 2003

Feature Stories:

  • The Weight of Evidence
  • Call to Community
  • Lots of Fun . . . Bar None
  • Experts Among Us
Fall 2002 cover

Volume 20, Number 1, Fall 2002

Feature Stories:

  • Parents as Partners
  • Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy
  • Setting the Stage
  • Division I?
Summer 2002 cover

Volume 19, Number 4, Summer 2002

Feature Stories:

  • Where the Wild Things Are
  • An African Son
  • 'Do Tell
  • The Mighty Are Falling
Spring 2002 cover

Volume 19, Number 3, Spring 2002

Feature Stories:

  • The Blood Wasn't Human
  • Splendor in the Grass
  • How We Remember
Winter 2002 cover

Volume 19, Number 2, Winter 2002

Feature Stories:

  • A Fine Blend
  • Senior Homecoming
  • The Aftermath
Fall 2001 cover

Volume 19, Number 1, Fall 2001

Feature Stories:

  • The Disordered Mind
  • In Lion Country
Summer 2001 cover

Volume 18, Number 4, Summer 2001

Feature Stories:

  • What's Love Got to Do with It?
  • Would You Like Fries with That?
Spring 2001 cover

Volume 18, Number 3, Spring 2001

Feature Stories:

  • Why Milk?
  • Disappearing Data
Winter 2001 cover

Volume 18, Number 2, Winter 2001

Feature Stories:

  • Aquifears
  • Campus at Night
Fall 2000 cover

Volume 18, Number 1, Fall 2000

Feature Stories:

  • Wasted
  • Riding Tidal Wave II
Summer 2000 cover

Volume 17, Number 4, Summer 2000

Feature Stories:

  • Romancing the Genome
  • From the Bellybutton, from the Heart
Spring 2000 cover

Volume 17, Number 3, Spring 2000

Feature Stories:

  • And the Band-uh Plays On
  • The Rights of Animals
Winter 2000 cover

Volume 17, Number 2, Winter 2000

Feature Stories:

  • Mining's Tarnished Legacy
  • Coloring a Community
Fall 99 cover

Volume 17, Number 1, Fall 1999

Feature Stories:

  • Defusing School Violence
  • ABC's of Kids
Summer 99 cover

Volume 16, Number 4, Summer 1999

Feature Stories:

  • Creature Discomforts
  • Let’s Talk of Graves, of Worms
Spring 99 cover

Volume 16, Number 3, Spring 1999

Feature Stories:

  • Ph.D.s: A Hire Degree?
  • To the Rescue
Fall 98 cover

Volume 16, Number 1, Fall 1998

Feature Stories:

  • A Mind Competent in All Its Concerns
  • Building a Better Brain
Winter 98 cover

Volume 15, Number 2, Winter 1998

Feature Stories:

  • The New Face of Davis
  • Santa's Helper
Fall 97 cover

Volume 15, Number 1, Fall 1997

Feature Stories:

  • Lost Art
  • Moral Medicine
Summer 97 cover

Volume 14, Number 4, Summer 1997

Feature Stories:

  • The Next Hat
  • The Art of Science
Spring 97 cover

Volume 14, Number 3, Spring 1997

Feature Stories:

  • In Our Own Backyard
Winter 97 cover

Volume 14, Number 2, Winter 1997

Feature Stories:

  • One Medicine
  • Charging into the Future
Fall 96 cover

Volume 14, Number 1, Fall 1996

Feature Stories:

  • The Quiet Campus: Protest at UC Davis
  • Wayne Thiebaud Shares His Gift
  • Sword and Sandals: A Secret No Longer
Summer 96 cover

Volume 13, Number 4, Summer 1996

Feature Stories:

  • The Facts of Life
  • Pinning Down the Past
  • Looking for Life on Mars