Karen Nikos-Rose

Nov 7, 2024 | ucdavis.edu | Karen Nikos-Rose

UC Davis Professor Kathy Stuart, author of Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) has won the 2024 Natalie Zemon Davis Prize in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. “What to do about women (and sometimes, men) who gruesomely murdered children because of their own ‘weariness with life?’This was a dilemma faced by elites in German-speaking lands during the 17th and 18th centuries,’ reads the description of Stuart’s book by award givers.

Nov 6, 2024 | ucdavis.edu | Karen Nikos-Rose

Families purchased more school lunches and breakfasts the year after the federal government toughened nutritional standards for school meals. A new University of California, Davis, study suggests that families turned to school lunches after the Obama administration initiative was in effect to save time and money and take advantage of more nutritious options.

Oct 28, 2024 | ucdavis.edu | Karen Nikos-Rose

The following University of California, Davis, researchers can provide expertise to media on outages other issues surrounding utilities and utility prices. This list was updated in October 2024. Public ownership, energy cooperatives, utilities, local community economic developmentKeith Taylor is an extension professor at the University of California’s Cooperative Extension and UC Davis’ Department of Community and Regional Development.

Oct 22, 2024 | phys.org | Karen Nikos-Rose |UC Davis

The extent to which "civilization" heightens or lessens the likelihood of violent conflict throughout human history has remained one of the most enduring questions among anthropologists. But a new collaborative study of archaeological groups from the Andes region of South America suggests that being part of a centrally organized state society is only part of the equation.

Oct 21, 2024 | ucdavis.edu | Karen Nikos-Rose

The extent to which “civilization” heightens or lessens the likelihood of violent conflict throughout human history has remained one of the most enduring questions among anthropologists. But a new collaborative study of archaeological groups from the Andes region of South America suggests that being part of a centrally organized state society is only part of the equation.