April 2021
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Detainees face underlying health conditions and often have chronic illnesses that would expose them to greater risk with COVID-19, a new study reports.

Researchers at the Center for Mind and Brain found people base their decisions on subjective memory — how they feel about a memory — more than on its accuracy.

Emergent behavior is easy to find in nature, from fire ants linking together during floods to videos going viral on social media. But creating algorithms that mimic emergent behavior — in which small interactions among individuals cause a big change across a system — presents many challenges for researchers.

Some of the Milky Way’s oldest stars have been spotted in a surprising place — the disk that is our galaxy’s youngest region. Supercomputer simulations of their orbits suggest these metal-poor stars came from a smaller galaxy that slammed into the Milky Way more than 7 billion years ago.

The growing visibility of Black Deaf signers is also putting the spotlight on the work of linguist Robert Bayley, co-author of The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure. 

Through annual grants from UC Davis Global Affairs, faculty in the College of Letters and Science will provide students with global learning experiences and work toward goals such as ending hunger and eradicating inequalities. 
Honors
Katharine Burnett, professor of art history and faculty director of the Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and Science, received a UC Davis Chancellor’s Award for International Engagement.

Beth Levy, associate professor of music, was elected vice president of the Society for American Music.
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Robert Faris, professor of sociology

Capital Public Radio
Trey Makler, doctoral candidate in composition and theory

Science Friday
Wiebke Bleidorn, professor of psychology 

The Conversation
Robert McKee Irwin, professor of Spanish and deputy director of the Global Migration Center
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