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Banner with text Undergraduate Research Fair, :00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., October 14, 2025, ARC Ballroom. The banner features vibrant, colorful abstract artwork, blending a mix of blue, yellow, green, and red hues. In the foreground, there are visuals representing a person with sensor headset, researcher with plants, and a researcher looking through a microscope.

Undergraduate Research Conference

The annual Undergraduate Research Conference takes place April 24-25. Abstract submissions open Jan 7.

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Learn about funded research programs and mentorships

Applications now open for the Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship and Aggie Scholars Research Initiative.

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The Student Researcher

History of a little-known Black community in Woodland

Combing through archives they find family histories, a singing club.

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Pair Bonding in the Bales Lab

  • by Korley Reese

Albatool is a 5th year Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior major and a Psychology minor from Saudi Arabia. She moved from Saudi Arabia to the United States in 2019 for her undergraduate education at UC Davis. Albatool’s field of research is neurobiology of pair bonding in the Bales Lab.

 

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Lauren Ward - Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity

  • by Michelle Funes

Among the coastal dunes at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory or the fields of wildflowers at McLaughlin Natural Reserve, you might find Lauren Ward, a senior undergraduate student with the Gremer lab collecting plants and soil for research where her passion resides in plant-microbe interactions and finding answers to bigger questions in ecology.

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