UC Davis recently joined a project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to bring agricultural expertise and training from four American land-grant universities to agricultural universities in Egypt. The five-year, $30 million project will establish a Center of Excellence for Agriculture at Cairo University. The goal is to equip faculty and students…
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Staff and faculty at UC Davis were honored with Diversity, Principles of Community, and Disability Awareness Awards at the 29th annual Soaring to New Heights event on April 10. More than 700 people attended the event. Five of the individual awards for disability awareness went to supervisors for their responsiveness to employees’ needs for accommodations….
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Charles E. “Charley” Hess, a UC Davis Medal recipient and dean emeritus of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences who never took the word “retirement” seriously, died Saturday (April 13) of congestive heart failure at the age of 87. Saturday was Picnic Day, the biggest celebration of the year at the institution he loved….
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Picnic Day is the most popular UC Davis event each year for visitors, alumni, students, and campus employees. The family-friendly event, with its popular parade, showcases the diversity and excellence at UC Davis, including research, teaching, outreach, and campus life. Plant Sciences, one of the largest departments on campus, always has an array of hands-on…
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Preparing students for global challenges and opportunities is the goal of a new Curriculum Enhancement through Global Learning program at UC Davis. The program, spearheaded by Global Affairs, provides a professional learning opportunity for faculty to make their course content, teaching, and student experiences prepare the students to address global needs. Professor Li Tian in…
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A new book, The Conifers: Genomes, Variation and Evolution, by David B. Neale and Nicholas C. Wheeler is now available. Authors David B. Neale is a distinguished professor in the Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis. His research expertise is the genomics of forest trees. Along with his research and teaching, he is editor-in-chief of…
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Meet three faculty who recently joined the Department of Plant Sciences. They cover a broad range of research, teaching, and outreach expertise. Additional faculty recruitments in the department are underway, and will be posted once those new faculty join the department. Christine Diepenbrock Christine Diepenbrock has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department…
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DAVIS and WASHINGTON (March 28, 2019) – More than 80 percent of the world’s almonds are produced in California, and this industry contributes $21 billion to the state’s economy. In recognition of the need to develop more resilient almond orchards, the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) awarded a $225,000 Seeding Solutions Grant to…
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California produces 99 percent of the walnuts grown in the United States. New research could provide a major boost to the state’s growing $1.6 billion walnut industry by making it easier to breed walnut trees better equipped to combat the soil-borne pathogens that now plague many of California’s 4,800 growers. In a new study, a…
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Mars, Incorporated is developing a research and development facility in Davis, California, and will partner with UC Davis scientists (faculty and students) on developing improved cacao strains. David Mackill, director of Cocoa Genetics and Breeding at Mars, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis, has been part of the…
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