UC Davis’ eighth annual Biodiversity Museum Day is happening on Saturday. It’s a free educational event, open to the public, and features the university’s natural-world museums and collections. Not only can you explore the collections, but you can talk with scientists and students about their work. The 13 collections that can be visited (with links…
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Each day this week, leading up to Valentine’s Day, campus is posting a “first love” nature story, written by campus scientists, on the “What Can I Do About Climate Change?” blog. As noted by Kat Kerlin, who created this blog series, “I believe that direct experience with the natural world, particularly as young people, can…
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Plant breeding education for UC Davis students is the focus of this SCOPE video. SCOPE is the Student Collaborative Organic Plant Breeding Education Project, a student-led collaborative, operating through the UC Davis Plant Breeding Center, and funded by the Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OREI), through USDA NIFA. SCOPE has two goals — to…
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Florence Zakharov, associate professor in the Department of Plant Sciences, is the new director of the Postharvest Technology Center, succeeding Trevor Suslow, Cooperative Extension research specialist emeritus. In her director’s note in the center’s January newsletter, Zakharov said: “I have been involved with the center since joining the faculty of the Department of Plant Sciences…
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Plant Sciences professors Ken Tate and Valerie Eviner, UC Davis, are highlighted in this video about rangeland management and working landscapes. Ken Tate is a statewide Cooperative Extension Specialist in California, who studies working rangelands to aid ranchers and managers in implementing sustainable livestock grazing management. Valerie Eviner studies variations in ecological controls over plant…
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UC Davis is the best for reasons you may already know — our world-leading veterinary medicine and agriculture programs, for starters — and plenty of reasons you might not. For example, have you heard that we’re No. 1 in the U.S. for campus sustainability? Or that we’re the No. 1 Most Important School for Women in…
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Next-level greenhouses are being built at the University of California, Davis, where faculty and students are conducting innovative research to keep plants plentiful, nutritious and resilient. “These state-of-the-art greenhouses will benefit public breeding on so many important crops,” said Helene Dillard, dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CA&ES). “Researchers will…
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UC Davis has been selected by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of a consortium to improve nutrition for women and children in low- and middle-income countries around the globe. The five-year program — USAID Advancing Nutrition — will bring together international and local organizations from various sectors to design, implement and evaluate…
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Undergraduate students studying plant sciences and related subjects at UC Davis get plenty of field experience in plant production, including field trips, and hearing from growers about potential careers in plant sciences. Vegetable Crop Production (PLS 110) is taught fall quarter by Dr. Jeffrey Mitchell, a faculty member and Cooperative Extension Specialist. Not only do…
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Intersections UC Davis has four new websites/blogs that address society’s major challenges and lead to innovative breakthroughs. The four blogs are: Science and Climate Feeding a Growing Population Advancing Global Health Driven by Curiosity News and articles will continue to be added to the four sites, and several articles already pertain to plant sciences, particularly…
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