A campus police officer who sprayed seated protesters with pepper spray during a police attempt to clear out an Occupy encampment at the University of California Davis last year no longer works at the school, a university spokeswoman said.
The pepper-spraying of student protesters at the University of California-Davis was an "objectively unreasonable" use of force by campus police, a state review of the incident concluded Wednesday.
This might sound a bit nutty, but U.S. researchers are using robot squirrels to learn more about how real ones interact with their main predator, rattlesnakes.
"Expect us" is the favorite tag line for an endless stream of Web videos posted by the Internet collective known as Anonymous. It's a promise and a threat. In 2011, galvanized by the national Occupy movement, Anonymous delivered.
Refusing to leave their camp at Los Angeles' City Hall, Occupy protesters were seeking a federal court injunction to block their removal.
CNN's Sandra Endo reports from Los Angeles as Occupy protesters defy a police order to leave their camp.
Rareview goes inside the lives of those in America whose stories we don't always hear.
Protesters holding their ground at an Occupy site in Los Angeles rallied on Monday to highlight their success and vowed to continue their encampment.
UC-Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi speaks to Don Lemon about the pepper spray incident involving police and students.
University of California officials said Tuesday they will pay the medical expenses of students who were pepper sprayed during an Occupy Davis protest last week.
U.C. Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi apologizes to students over Friday's pepper spray incident - but doesn't resign.
The University of California at Davis has placed two police officers on administrative leave after video of them pepper-spraying non-violent protesters at point-blank range sparked outrage at school officials.
What started as the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York in September has spread across major cities worldwide as a call to action against unequal distribution of wealth.
Family doctors and other primary care physicians are often the first health professionals to learn that a patient is depressed, but that doesn't mean they identify all of the depression cases that walk through their offices.
A high-frequency radar in California detected the March 11 tsunami that devastated Japan, raising hopes for the development of a new early warning system, a University of California at Davis oceanographer said.
Early morning chill seeps into the Nghe family's front yard. It's an oasis of fruit trees where a bee swarm the size of a football -- some 10,000 bees -- is huddled for warmth in the branches of a kumquat tree.
Dinosaurs, it turns out, were on the hunt 24-7.
Using existing technologies, the world could convert almost entirely to green power by mid-century � and it wouldn't cost much more than people now spend on energy, says a new analysis of global energy use.
For 11 years, Brenda Charett Jensen couldn't speak. She communicated through an electronic device that sounded like a robot. When the batteries ran out, her conversation was over.
Doctors say they restored a California woman's voice in one of the most complicated surgeries ever performed.
It's late May on the campus of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Mott Gym is packed. This is a welcome sight for Lennis Cowell and John Azevedo, who fondly remember the halcyon days when wrestling drew more than 2,000 fans -- four times today's average -- to dual meets against Cal State Bakersfield, the California coast school's rival.
When director Ivan Dixon and writer Sam Greenlee were trying to get the politically charged African-American film "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" made in the early 1970s, they faced major challenges in securing funding.
It's a familiar scenario: When clues are scarce, witnesses won't talk and police are stymied, they turn to DNA.
Naming. It is always about naming, about knowing how to name.
Universities nationwide were recovering Friday, a day after protests over education budget cuts hit campuses from coast to coast.
A 10-year study examining 4.9 million births in the 1990s has found more evidence that there's a link between autism and the mother's age at conception.
A new study finds the risk of having a child with autism increases with a mother's age.
When it comes to movies, it may be that sex doesn't sell.
This week in iReport we're looking at some big news in California, as well as a momentous announcement in entertainment and your fantastic travel images.
IReporter Nicki Sun shows students at UC Davis blockading an academic building in protest of higher tuition.
Demonstrators entered their third day of a building takeover at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday in protest of a tuition increase, an undertaking that a school spokesman called futile.
Angry students at the Davis, California, branch of the University of California refused to vacate the school's administration building Thursday evening in a show of defiance and protest over a 32-percent undergraduate tuition hike instituted by the California Board of Regents earlier in the day.
When Melinda Roberts is watching animated movies with her kids -- 7, 9, and 11 -- she'll help them recognize voice actors and talk about the creation process so they won't get scared.
In the hubbub of life with kids, it's amazing how fragile happiness can seem.
Kevin O'Leary struggled with a mid-career crisis. After more than a decade producing TV ads, he wanted out. But what next?
William Searing is an Eagle Scout who loves hiking, adventure, art and sports. At age 19, he's in an education program that bridges the gap from high school to getting a job. Wil has autism.
Wouldn't it be great if you knew which foods you should be eating based on your own personal health profile?
If every scientist hopes to make at least one important discovery in her career, then University of California-Davis professor Pamela Ronald and her colleagues may have hit the jackpot.
A hardier variety of rice that is tolerant to flooding may prevent millions of people from going hungry.
What if your doctor told you that even after the weight comes off, your number of fat cells stays the same, and it will be an uphill battle to keep the pounds off? Research published in May 2008 in the journal Nature finds fat cells can shrink -- but they don't go away.
The main predictor of suicide attempts among Asian Americans may be family conflict, according to an analysis by University of California, Davis, psychologists
Bill Clinton on Tuesday canceled a commencement speech at the University of California, Los Angeles, because of a lingering labor dispute
After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the University of California, Davis established a research department that led to the flourish of the California wine industry. Now, it hopes to do the same for olive oil
The 951 (and counting) birds collected alive after the San Francisco Bay oil spill are doing their part for science.
Here are some of the most effective ways to deal with people who are too close for (your) comfort.
If you want to know where American food traditions are headed, look back. Many of today's most healthful eating trends bear a strong resemblance to yesterday's: Nearby farms offering nutritious, peak-of-season produce; slow-cooked dinners that foster leisurely family meals; an emphasis on meatless dishes and minimally processed foods.
Business 2.0: Farming goes verticalupdated: Tue Sep 11 2007 05:57:00
The term "urban farming" may conjure up a community garden where locals grow a few heads of lettuce. But some academics envision something quite different for the increasingly hungry world of the 21st century: a vertical farm that will do for agriculture what the skyscraper did for office space.
Satellites, cell phones and spectrometers: Probably not the first things you think of when you picture sheep and goat herders in Afghanistan. But those modern tools may soon make the lives of nomadic families a little more stable.
The cost of higher education looks like it's climbing ... again.
From the time they are born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and co-conspirators, our role models and cautionary tales.
CNNMoney: A fine glass of hooeyupdated: Fri Dec 16 2005 12:23:00
NEW YORK (MONEY Magazine) - Red or white? It's the first question you ask when choosing a wine, right? Silly you. What you should be looking at, see, is whether it's a grand cru or a reserve. And do you adhere to the Parker scale? (You really should, you know.) And last, you philistine, do you want something lithe and supple, or firm-structured with good harmony?
An online trading platform wants you to stop griping about skyrocketing gas prices and start trading.
CNNMoney: ETFs: Pros and consupdated: Tue May 31 2005 14:37:00
By combining the low-cost and diversification of index funds with the tax efficiency and flexibility of investing in stocks, exchange-traded funds can give individual investors more control over their portfolios, and even a shot at better overall performance.
FSB: A New Vintageupdated: Tue Feb 01 2005 00:01:00
It's an 85-degree day in September, and Mike Wood of Wood Family Vineyards in Livermore, Calif., is inspecting his 14 acres of merlot grapes. He wanders between the rows of vines, sampling grapes t...
Every 17 years, billions of cicadas cause a loud stir in almost one third of the United States. Scientists now say the insects also leave a lasting and positive impact after they die.
FSB: Cum Laudeupdated: Mon Nov 01 2004 00:01:00
The seven semifinalists that vied with our winners should make a mark. Besides the four profiled here, they include Carnegie Mellon's ClearCount, which has found a way to keep surgical sponges from...
Make love, not money. That was the most unusual message of a research note this summer from stock strategist James Montier at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, urging his well-heeled clients to set a...
We'll grant that the University of California at Davis may not be the first response that springs to mind in answer to the question "What is the best B-school in the country?" But if you're talking...
Investing mistakes, like most things we do, have both immediate causes and more fundamental ones. Didn't do your homework on a stock that tanked soon after you bought it? Your more fundamental erro...
With members balancing cheesecake on one knee and spreadsheets on the other, the conversation heated up at an investment club meeting I attended recently. On the agenda were discussions of 1) why t...
University of California at Davis economist George Bittlingmayer has concluded that increased antitrust enforcement is a prelude to a bear market. The feds' cases against Microsoft and Intel make i...
One of the hottest growth industries in the U.S. is also one of the oldest. Farmers' markets are proliferating like zucchini. Californians can buy fresh fruit and vegetables directly from growers a...
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