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Doctors learning to perform fetal heart surgery need only look to the grocery store for practice materials.

Frank Ing, chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at ���˽�������̳���� Davis Children’s Hospital, uses grapes embedded in tubs of gelatin to give would-be surgeons a way to learn fetal heart intervention.

Using ultrasound, the students find the “heart” in the gelatin and practice inserting a needle. See how the procedure works in the above video.

Student films on display this week

Sea Creature, Walk Cycle, You Don’t Know. These are some of the student-produced titles that will be shown at the 19th annual Film Festival @ ���˽�������̳���� Davis, which runs Wednesday (May 8) and Thursday (May 9) at the Varsity Theatre in Davis. Starting time is 9:30 both nights.

Films by alumni Nino Mancuso ’04 and David Nessl ’12 will also be shown. Nessl’s film, Chichi, an animated short, was screened at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. 

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Aggies lace up their shoes for ���˽�������̳���� Walks

���˽�������̳���� faculty and staff around the state spent some time outside last week, strolling around as part of ���˽�������̳���� Walks, an annual celebration of wellness and community-building.

At ���˽�������̳���� Davis, participation was up — more than 1,000 people walked at the Davis and Sacramento campuses, an increase over the 787 who took part in the event last year.

Some of ���˽�������̳���� Davis’ walkers documented the event on social media:

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