A Sustainable Solution: Compostable Wind Turbine Blades

The nation's largest public pension firm is the California Public Employee's Retirement System, known as CalPERS. Its CEO, Marcie Frost, speaks with the Financial Times' U.S. Managing Editor Peter Spiegel about managing the mission-driven retirement fund for California's public employees as part of the UC Davis-Financial Times Biz Quiz 2023. Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Special Events" [Business] [Show ID: 39564]

UC Davis Professor, Dr. Frank Mitloehner, and CLEAR Center members took to Mexico to attend the Congress Internationale de la Carne in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, where they met and discussed sustainability efforts with the Minister of Agriculture. In addition to meeting with beef cattle producers and others in the livestock industry to share research coming from the UC Davis CLEAR Center, we got to tour feedlots and discuss sustainable practices that are currently being implemented. For example, rotational grazing can improve forage quality and soil carbon sequestration while implementing shade for cattle can improve efficiencies in production, and promote animal welfare. [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 39161]

Explore UC Davis discoveries that have improved modern life in unexpected ways. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 39211]

A team of UC Davis researchers is making advances in a field that could eventually allow brain surgeons to offer replacement parts to injured patients. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39213]

Combating destructive effects of climate change, the Arboretum and Public Garden staff and Learning by Leading™ students plant test trees to cultivate a resilient and diverse urban tree canopy for the UC Davis community. Emily Griswold, Director of GATEways Horticulture and Teaching Gardens, outlines the tireless research and work of tending to mature trees and planting saplings. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 39214]

UC Davis engineers and neuroscientists are exploring how robots and artificial intelligence can improve prosthetic devices and make them more intuitive for their users. They've also teamed up with a multidisciplinary team at UC Davis Health in Sacramento in an overall effort to improve prostheses for amputees and prevent prosthetic abandonment. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39208]

From the beautiful to the strange, the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology has one of the largest insect collections in North America. Take a tour through the collections and its highlights with director Lynn Kimsey in this behind-the-scenes video. The museum is free and open to UC Davis students, staff and faculty, as well as the public. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 39209]

The Basement Gallery is a student-run organization located in the basement of the UC Davis art department and holds shows featuring student artwork. Learn more about the organization and some of the participating artists. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 39216]

Surgeons and prosthetists-orthotists at UC Davis Health are working with amputee patients to improve the functionality of their prosthetic devices through surgical techniques and new technology. They've also teamed up with a multidisciplinary team at UC Davis in an overall effort to make prostheses more intuitive and prevent prosthetic abandonment. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39207]

Wind turbine blades are a major source of environmental pollution and waste. Learn how UC Davis is creating an ecologically sound solution for their disposal. Students, faculty and researchers in the Advanced Composites Research, Engineering and Science (ACRES) lab in the UC Davis College of Engineering are building compostable wind turbine blades from bamboo and mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms. While the researchers are currently focused on building a wind turbine blade prototype, incorporating mycelium into building materials could have larger implications for sustainable structures. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 39206]