Council honors community standouts

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

Recognizing deserving individuals and organizations, the Davis City Council announced the 2023 Golden Heart Awards and this year’s Thong Hy Huynh Memorial Awards at Tuesday’s meeting.

Golden Heart

The Golden Heart award was first presented in 1994 in memory of Andrew Mockus, who was killed by his peers in 1992. After many community forums hosted by the Recreation and Park Commission, it was decided to recognize outstanding youth in the Davis community with two different categories within the award: community service and personal challenge. The Community Service Award recognizes individuals who’ve given significant service to the communities and their fears and or their schools, and the Personal Challenge Award recognizes individuals who overcome significant challenges. See STANDOUTS, Back page

Cat-cat study: How well do we read cat behavior?

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

How well can you read cat behavior? That’s a question that was posed to participants of a study aimed at better understanding cat behavior.

Because cats are the most widespread pets throughout the country, student Yuqi “Emily”

Quan set out to determine “how well UC Davis college students can distinguish between positive and negative behaviors in domestic cats.”

Done through an online survey with several demographic questions and 10 videos of cat-cat interactions, participants were asked to rate the interactions from extremely negative to extremely positive. For this study, our recruitment was from the end of February to the beginning of April, mainly through flyers around campus on social media.

Under the guidance of sponsor Carly Moody, Ph.D., they hypothesized that students would be better at recognizing positive behavior compared to negative behavior and that students with professional experience with cats would be better at

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