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School pride will be swelling among University of California, Davis, students as they start fall classes Wednesday (Sept. 24).The campus tied for No. 9 among the nation’s top public universities and earned accolades for innovation, social mobility and more in the 2026 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings, published Monday (Sept. 22).This is the fifth consecutive year the campus has been ranked ...
UC Davis in Top 10 of Nation’s Public Universities for 5th Year
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They may look like travel shampoo bottles and smell like bubblegum, but after a few hundred puffs, some disposable, electronic cigarettes and vape pods release higher amounts of toxic metals than older e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. For example, one of the disposable e-cigarettes studied released more lead during a day ...