Childcare Content

Nutrition Programs Alone Aren’t Enough to Support Healthy Brain Development

Amy M Quinton — September 16, 2019 - 3:38pm

Study by 51�ԹϺ�� Davis researchers finds caregiving programs are five times more effective in supporting brain development in children from low- and middle-income countries.

NEWS BRIEFS: Hutchison Child Care Center Turns 10

Dave Jones — June 29, 2018 - 1:45pm

51�ԹϺ�� Davis recently celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the Davis campus’s Hutchison Child Development Center and a contract renewal with the center’s operator, Bright Horizons Family Solutions. The party featured cake and juice, the perfect refreshments for the young “alumni” and families who joined university officials at the June 14 event.

Solving the Conference/Child Care Career Conundrum

Andy Fell — March 05, 2018 - 3:06pm

A group of female academics is calling on scientific conferences to do more to accommodate nursing mothers and parents to help normalize parenthood in academia — removing a significant barrier to women beginning their careers in science.

“Nursing and child care, most often provided by women, are not a luxury; they are a biological necessity,” said Rebecca Calisi Rodriguez, assistant professor of neurobiology, physiology and behavior at the University of California, Davis, who is organizing the effort.