Department news

Van Kessels establish endowment to help grad students

Former department Chair Chris van Kessel and wife Betsy have given $500,000 to establish an endowment to help graduate students studying field crops. With the UC Davis Give Day Challenge now open, you can be a part of this life-changing, world-bettering opportunity!

Godbey and Shydlowski win at UC-wide conference

Two graduate students the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences — Mia Godbey and Maya Shydlowski — took first place in poster contests at the annual California Plant and Soil conference in Visalia, Calif., hosted by University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources and the California chapter of the American Society of Agronomy.