Aero, a 7-year-old German shepherd-Belgian Malinois mix, is back in action with the Anderson Police Department (near Redding) as a narcotics-detecting officer. Four years ago, however, he was forced to prematurely retire after a mysterious illness caused his energy levels to plummet and his muscles to atrophy. His handler, officer Mike Hallagran, did not think Aero would survive.
— Rob Warren, School of Veterinary Medicine
Read more about how his illness was identified or watch Aero’s story in the above video.
Track star finishes 5th in the nation in heptathlon
UC Davis Cross Country and Track and Field: FINAL | 5,924 PTS // FIFTH PLACE Senior Erinn Beattie does. It. Again. ( & again, & again, & again) Another school record in the books, scoring 5,924 points for a 253 point PR, and is now ranked in the top 30 of the world in the heptathlon #GoAgs #ncaaTF
Gauging opinions on nursing
Being a nurse was always in Carter Todd’s blood. As a pediatric intensive care unit nurse at UC Davis Medical Center, he’s one of roughly 280,000 black registered nurses in the country. That’s a number he hopes to grow.
For his thesis project at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, Todd interviewed patrons at Sacramento barbershops that cater to African American men to understand perceptions they had about the nursing profession. Why barbershops? Research concludes they serve as a cultural hub of influence in the community of African American men and can be a place of health care intervention.
Read more on the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing’s website.
Twitter: Baby meets surgeons who operated on her in the womb
UC Davis Children’s Hospital: Evie was diagnosed with #spinabifida in utero and had open fetal surgery at UC Davis Fetal Care and Treatment Center. Now Evie is doing well and reunited with her health care team who hasn’t seen her since she was in the womb!
Cat tweet waddles around the world
Twitter: The post that started it all
UC Davis Egghead: Please don’t feed Cheeto, the ginger cat who hangs out around the Physics Building. He’s overweight and squirrels eat the extra food
As the writer of a blog following UC Davis research, Strategic Communications’ Andy Fell spends much more time writing about discoveries made inside the Physics Building than animals who live near it. So the popularity of a recent tweet about signs asking the campus community not to pass any extra food to Cheeto likely came as a surprise.
As last count, Fell’s tweet from the UC Davis Egghead account had racked up nearly 7,000 retweets and almost 19,000 likes, and spawned coverage in publications varying from Bored Panda (which has nearly 16.5 million followers on Facebook) to the cat-centric LoveMeow.com. A similar post from the College of Letters and Science received more than 2,500 comments on Facebook, including check-ins from around the world:
“This has reached the UK and we love him,” a user named Charlotte Lewis wrote.
“Also Portugal, I want to hug Cheeto,” Débora Gonçalves of Lisbon replied.
“And Malaysia,” said Siew Eng Chuah.
Cheeto has also garnered coverage in Vietnamese, and Hong Kong-based news outlet HK01 created a graphic.