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Davis, California - We asked some of our UC Davis faculty and researchers what they would predict in the new year in their particular fields of research and expertise. Those predictions appear below by topic.

Immigration

Giovanni Peri, professor of economics; chair, Department of Economics

Kevin Johnson, dean, UC Davis School of Law

ISIS (Islamic State)

Flagg Miller, professor of religious studies

Author of The Audacious Ascetic: What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal about Al-Qa’ida (Hurst, Oxford University Press, 2015; author's website)

U.S. Supreme Court

Carlton Larson, professor, UC Davis School of Law

Lisa Pruitt, professor, UC Davis School of Law

Kevin Johnson, dean, UC Davis School of Law

Learning in the first three years of life

Ross Thompson, distinguished professor of psychology; affiliate, Center for Poverty Research

Public policy, presidency, elections

Marianne Page, professor of economics; deputy director, Center for Poverty Research

Lisa Pruitt, professor, UC Davis School of Law; affiliate, UC Davis Center for Poverty Research

Mindy S. Romero, director, California Civic Engagement Project at the UC Davis Center for Regional Change

Food and innovation

J. Bruce German, professor, Department of Food Science and Technology; director, Foods for Health Institute

Cleveland Justis, executive director, UC Davis Child Family Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Andrew Hargadon, Charles J. Soderquist Chair in Entrepreneurship, UC Davis Graduate School of Management; faculty director, UC Davis Child Family Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Author of Sustainable Innovation: Build Your Company’s Capacity to Change the World (Stanford University Press, 2015)

The environment: water, air, lighting … and bicycling

Susan Handy, environmental policy professor; director, National Center for Sustainable Transportation 

Nicholas Pinter, professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Michael Siminovitch, director, California Lighting Technology Center; professor of design 

Chelsea Rochman, marine ecologist, UC Davis Aquatic Health Program

Sonia Yeh, research scientist, UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies

Ted Grosholz, professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy 

Rick Grosberg, director, Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute