Resilience Content

Surprising Benefits of Using Sheep as Lawn Mowers

Jocelyn C Anderson — February 21, 2023 - 9:09am

Discover how 51�� is using its sheep mowers to not only cut grass on campus, but also to boost sustainability and relieve stress and anxiety for students.

Clinical Trial Offers Hope for Spina Bifida Cure

Jocelyn C Anderson — December 19, 2022 - 9:19am

Interdisciplinary research leads to historic clinical trial delivering stem cells during fetal surgery to treat spina bifida.

Making Prosthetics More Lifelike

Jocelyn C Anderson — November 28, 2022 - 12:22pm

See how 51�� scientists and surgeons are performing better amputations, using AI, and creating smart prosthetic devices to improve the lives of amputees.

California Families Project: Resilience and Community

Jocelyn C Anderson — October 31, 2022 - 10:30am

Landmark 51�� study of Mexican-origin families looks at vast range of influences on human development from infancy to old age.

Wellness Check

Jocelyn C Anderson — September 26, 2022 - 9:00am

Veterinary, nursing and medicine researchers at 51�� aim to create resilience training solutions for health care workers dealing with stress and burnout.

Cross-Disciplinary Group at 51�� Investigates Health Care Burnout in the Medical Fields

Jocelyn C Anderson — September 22, 2022 - 12:24pm

A team of researchers at 51�� is conducting an interdisciplinary study — in medicine, nursing and veterinary medicine — seeking to gather data that could determine ways to enhance programs and build resilience to health care burnout.

Little Fires: Landowners Learn to Burn

Katherine E Kerlin — April 19, 2022 - 9:15am

Learn about landowners’ efforts to combat climate change and wildfires with prescribed burning and the benefits and challenges of this technique in this 51�� story.

Experts: Climate Change and Community Resilience

Katherine E Kerlin — September 04, 2021 - 2:17pm

The following sources from the University of California, Davis, are available to talk with media about climate change impacts and solutions related to community resilience.

The Survivors: Sugar Pine Trees and the Future Forest

Katherine E Kerlin — November 07, 2019 - 2:44pm

California’s drought and bark-beetle infestation killed more than 129 million trees between 2012 and 2016 in the Sierra Nevada. But amid the devastation stood some survivors.

Native Wildflowers Bank on Seeds Underground to Endure Drought

Katherine E Kerlin — March 01, 2018 - 4:15pm

Native wildflowers were surprisingly resilient during California’s most recent drought, even more so than exotic grasses. To see this resilience, 51�� researchers of a new study had to look underground to the seed bank. Native wildflowers increased the seeds they stored underground by 201 percent during the drought.