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Rewriting Macbeth: New UC Davis Game Uses AI to Teach Conflict De-Escalation
What if you could talk Shakespeare’s Macbeth out of violence? A new UC Davis-developed game lets players do just that, using AI to simulate dialogue and teach real-world conflict de-escalation skills through interactive storytelling rooted in some of the greatest dramas in the English language.
AI Suggests Simple Food Swaps to Make Meals Healthier and Cheaper
A computational program trained on U.S. meal records identified simple food substitutions that improve nutritional quality and lower costs, according to a new study led by UC Davis computer scientists.
After the Fires: Protecting LA’s Trees While Learning Lessons for the Future
Southern California is confronting another wildfire season while researchers from the University of California, Davis continue studying the lasting impacts of the devastating 2025 fires on air quality, human health and the environment. Their early findings are shaping future rebuilding strategies, public health precautions and fire resilience policies.
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Alejandro Martinez Receives Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
The professor of civil and environmental engineering has been recognized for offering undergraduate students opportunities to develop research skills and integrate into his Granular Materials Lab, from performing laboratory tests and conducting physical modeling experiments to participating in the group's social activities and weekly meetings. “Undergraduate students are very capable and creative,” Martinez said. “My research and my team have greatly benefited from interacting with them.”
Researchers Win Best Paper Award at MLSys 2026 for Hardware-Efficient LLMs
A collaborative effort among UC Davis, Rice University, NVIDIA and Meta has produced a new method that accelerates processing speed in LLMs by 150% by identifying and skipping unnecessary calculations, with no impact on response quality. At MLSys 2026, the top AI systems conference, the researchers received a Best Paper Award for their innovation.
Graduate Student Researcher Award Supports Bio-Inspired Robotics Research
With funding from the competitive UC Davis Graduate Studies award, mechanical and aerospace engineering Ph.D. student Zhongxiao Deng will spend the summer exploring the design and control of a biologically inspired climbing robot and how its systems can better adapt to challenging surfaces and transition between different modes of locomotion. Deng will conduct his research under Wenzhong Yan, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
