Below are examples of past successful applications.  These include  the proposal descriptions, learning potential statements and budgets from a variety of majors.  Although these are organized by students' colleges,  faculty in UC Davis professional schools and Research Centers are also sponsors of PUF projects.  More examples will be added to provide a broad range of fields and disciplines. 

College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences:

Isolation and Characterization of Anaerobic Fungi in the Rumen

Functional Genetics to Analyze Effects of Genes Involved in Drought Tolerance and Seed Composition in Arabidopsis thaliana and Maize

Exploring the Function of Putative Type VI Secretion System Effectors in E. coli

College of Biological Sciences 

Characterizing the Cellular States of Virgin Beta Cells Within Mouse Pancreatic Islets Using Immunoflourescence and Confocal Microscopy Imaging

The Effects of Aging on the Spatial, Spectral, and Temporal Neural Processing Rhesus Macaques

The Role of Cold temperature in the Survival of Motor Neurons During Spinal Cord Development

College of Engineering

Salt Stress to Increase Lipid Accumulation of Microalgae Grown in Wastewater 

Fabrication of PDMS Chambers to Analyze Degree of Cell Stretch and Protein Dynamics

College of Letters and Science

Ethnic Women and Beauty Standards Regarding Hair

Alternative Social Control: Incarceration and Public Assistance Spending in the State of California, 1996-2015

Changing Notions of Hunger in the Media

NMR Spectroscopy as a Tool to Quantify Hydrogen-Bond Accepting Ability