What may seem like abstract research done at universities and government agencies actually has an impact on our everyday lives. We can roughly classify research into two categories, basic and applied.

Across scientific disciplines, psychology being no exception, a distinction is often made between basic and applied research. Basic research, as this distinction goes, is ivory-tower research, with no ...

While we’re enjoying the last days of summer, many signs of fall are already here: the UC Davis campus buzzing with staff and faculty preparing for the fall quarter, downtown merchants ready to ...

Ryan Summers receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is affiliated with the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE), NARST, ...

Matt Valle, left, of the C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, plants seeds with greenhouse manager Eric Haddix in a UC Davis greenhouse. (UC Davis photo) While we’re enjoying the last days of ...