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• Interviews with 71 parents who work from home revealed that many used their flexible work schedules to help manage the challenges of childcare.
• After-school care is expensive and competitive, leading some parents to watch their school-age children in the afternoons while they work.
•  Parents with younger kids often had complicated childcare arrangements that varied day by day and required them to watch their children at random times.
• These mothers and fathers, who live across the US, said that childc

• A study conducted at UC Davis between 2021 and 2023, featuring children (predominantly White) and adults (predominantly Asian), shows that by age 6, children recognized the protective factor of lowering expectations before receiving bad news.
• Only adults recognized that lowering expectations would be emotionally protective and lead to attenuated outcomes.
• With age, children became better at understanding how thoughts influence emotions.

• Housing affordability debates often assume a shared definition of “affordable,” even though administrators across institutional roles define and apply the term in fundamentally different ways. 
• Research shows that policymakers, institutions, and communities often rely on different definitions.

• My research documents the rare case of a blind mystical musician named Kanai Das Baul, who described his rapturous visionary accounts of a Hindu goddess that occurred when he lived in a South Asian funeral cremation ground for religious practice.
• During our interview in West Bengal, India, in 2025, he described the goddess putting meat in his mouth and demanding that he sing.

• White Sturgeon are large fish native to North America and are often raised on farms for both caviar and meat, resulting in high profits for both. 
• Current stunning practices used during the harvest of white sturgeon are ineffective, inhumane, and time-consuming, reducing the animal welfare of sturgeon raised on farms. 
• Non-Penetrative Captive Bolt (NPCB) guns can make both juvenile and adult white sturgeon unable to feel pain or fear.

• Using drone imagery, we can determine not only whether a farmer is using enough fertilizer but also whether they are using too much.
• This measurement is typically calculated from physical plant samples and lab tests, which require significant time and labor.
• New research shows that we can accurately determine fertilizer use efficiency using data collected from remote sensing tools, such as drones or satellite imagery.

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We are pleased to announce the newest incoming cohort for the Professors for the Future program! These 19 fellows were selected from a highly competitive applicant pool and come from a broad range of disciplines across the campus at UC Davis.

While more women are present on college campuses now than in years past, they are still far from having equal footing in academic careers and their journey to become a professor remains a challenge.

This is a reality Sarah Eyerly, Ph.D. ’04 has lived and been working to address since she was a fellow of Professors for the Future at UC Davis.

We are pleased to announce the newest incoming cohort for the Professors for the Future program! These fellows were selected from a highly competitive applicant pool and come from a broad range of disciplines across the campus at UC Davis.