University of California, Davis
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The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States.[10] It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institution was first founded as an agricultural branch of the system in 1905 and became the seventh campus of the University of California in 1959.
Founded as a primarily agricultural campus, the university has expanded over the past century to include graduate and professional programs in medicine (which includes the UC Davis Medical Center), law, veterinary medicine, education, nursing, and business management, in addition to 90 research programs offered by UC Davis Graduate Studies. The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine is the largest veterinary school in the United States. The UC Center Sacramento, a public-service oriented program founded in 2004, is operated by UC Davis.[11] UC Davis also offers certificates and courses, including online classes, for adults and non-traditional learners through its Division of Continuing and Professional Education.[12]
The university is
History
Agriculture and the land-grant university
In 1868, the University of California was established as a land-grant university, and immediately founded a College of Agriculture as its first college as required by the Morrill Land-Grant Acts and the university's own Organic Act.[19][20] UC operated a small farm at the Berkeley campus for several years after Ezra S. Carr became professor of agriculture, but he managed to alienate both the university faculty and the state's farmers with his attempt to directly integrate practical training in farming with courses on the larger historical, social, and political dimensions of farming and got himself fired in 1874.[21] The faculty could not understand why students should earn credit towards degrees for hoeing or plowing, and the farmers could not understand how learning the social history of farming could make their children into better farmers.[21]
Eugene W. Hilgard, Carr's successor, recognized that Berkeley's soil and climate were terrible for farming (the campus directly faces the notoriously foggy Golden Gate) and switched from "practical" to what he called "rational" instruction in scientific principles of agriculture at Berkeley.[22] He concentrated on things like soil science and fermentation that could be researched and taught in a university laboratory, supplemented by limited data gathering and experiments (but not hands-on teaching) at agricultural experimental stations in the field.[23] Hilgard was disdainful of the idea of a university farm.[24] He felt that for such a farm to teach effectively, it would necessarily have to be a model farm with examples of the best of everything, without any reference to local profitability, climate, or circumstances, and such a thing was clearly infeasible.[24]
Founding of the university farm
Around the turn of the 20th century,
On March 18, 1905, the University Farm Bill was enacted, which called for the establishment of a farm for the University of California.[27] A committee appointed by the Regents of the University of California took a year to select a site for the University Farm, a 779-acre portion of the stock farm of Jerome C. Davis, near a tiny Yolo County town then known as Davisville.[27][28] The Regents officially took control of the property in September 1906 and constructed four buildings in 1907.
Short courses were first offered in October and November 1908, and then the University Farm officially opened in 1909 as the University Farm School, offering a three-year non-degree vocational program.[28] The vocational program was shortened from three to two years in 1923.[29]
Initially, no degrees were awarded at Davis.[30] Students in the College of Agriculture at Berkeley often enrolled at Davis for a single semester to obtain practical training on an actual farm alongside the vocational students, but had to return to Berkeley to earn their degrees.[27][30] Because the non-degree vocational program at Davis was so disconnected from the traditional degree programs on the main Berkeley campus, agricultural interests began to agitate to separate Davis and the entire College of Agriculture from the University of California.[30] This forced the University of California Board of Regents in 1922 to silence such proposals by authorizing a four-year undergraduate degree program at Davis.[30] The first class graduated from Davis in 1926.[29]
Renamed in 1922 as the Northern Branch of the College of Agriculture, and, in 1938, as the College of Agriculture at Davis, the institution continued growing at a breakneck pace: in 1916 the Farm's 314 students occupied the original 778 acres (315 ha) campus. By 1951, it had expanded to a size of 3,000 acres (1,200 ha).[31] In 1958, the vocational program was discontinued.
Promotion to general campus
For much of its early history, Davis was treated as an offsite department of the main campus in Berkeley, and was supervised by a director who reported to Berkeley's president. In 1952, the title was upgraded to provost. Stanley B. Freeborn served as Davis's first provost from 1952 to 1958 and then as its first chancellor from 1958 to 1959 (in anticipation of its promotion to a general campus).[32] However, Freeborn retired in 1959 after only one year as chancellor, then died the next year.
In October 1959, Davis was formally designated by the University of California Board of Regents as a general campus and its chancellor was vested with the same autonomy as the chancellors at UC Berkeley and UCLA.
Most of Davis's initial development as a UC general campus was supervised by its second chancellor, Emil M. Mrak, who served from 1959 to 1969.[34] Mrak fondly recalled his bicycle-riding days as a child among the orchards of the Santa Clara Valley, and during his chancellorship, he worked hard to make the Davis campus into a bicycle-friendly place.[34] When Mrak retired in 1969, the campus administration building was named Mrak Hall in his honor.[35]
Davis's Graduate Division was established in 1961. This was followed by the creation of the College of Engineering in 1962.[33] The School of Law opened for classes in fall 1966, and the School of Medicine began instruction in fall 1968.[33] In a period of increasing activism, a Native American studies program was started in 1969, one of the first at a major university; it was later developed into a full department within the university.
2011 pepper spray incident and aftermath
During a
Documents released in 2016 through a public records request showed that the university had spent at least $175,000 to attempt to "scrub the Internet of negative postings" about the incident, in efforts that started in 2013.
New chancellor
In February 2017, Gary S. May was named the seventh chancellor of UCD after a nationwide search. He officially began in the role on August 1. May, the former dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech, is the second African American to be named chancellor at any of the UC campuses (after former UC Irvine chancellor, Ohio State president and current UC system president Michael Drake) and one of only three currently serving African American chancellors/presidents of an AAU institution.[42][43][44]
2022 UAW strike
In fall quarter of 2022, the United Auto Workers (UAW) led teaching assistants at UC Davis and other UC campuses in a strike that lasted several weeks. On December 16, 2022, the UCs reached a tentative agreement with the UAW.
2023 UC Davis serial stabber
In 2023, three people were stabbed over the course of five days, two of whom died. On Thursday, May 4, 2023, Davis Police arrested a former UC Davis student as a suspect for the crimes.[45]
Campus
Size and location
Although named after the City of Davis, the campus is technically located adjacent to the City of Davis in an unincorporated part of Yolo and Solano counties. The main campus is located 15 miles (24.1 km) west of Sacramento in the Sacramento Valley, part of California's Central Valley, and is adjacent to Interstate 80.
The city of
Campus Core/Quad
Towards the northeast end of campus is the Quad, a large rectangular field, which was the historic geographic center of campus. Earlier in the campus' history, the few campus buildings surrounded the four sides of the Quad. Today, though the campus has grown significantly and the geographic center of campus has shifted, the Quad remains the center of campus life, anchored to the north by the Memorial Union (student union), to the south by Shields Library and to the west and southeast by Wellman and Olson halls respectively. The Memorial Union Complex houses Freeborn Hall and the Memorial Union, which houses various establishments such as the UC Davis Bookstore.
The northeast side of campus holds more of the core buildings that were built earlier in UC Davis's history, such as Wellman Hall, Shields Library, Mrak Hall, and Hutchison Hall. Also notable in this northeastern corner is the labyrinthine Social Sciences and Humanities building designed by Antoine Predock, known to students as the "Death Star" for its angular, metallic design.[47]
South Main Campus and South Campus
The majority of
West Campus
For most of UC Davis' history, West Campus has served primarily as agricultural research land. Recently, portions were developed through a $300 million public-private partnership to form the largest zero net energy community in the United States, known as UC Davis West Village.[49] West Village will provide housing for 3,000 students, faculty and staff and will help the university recruit and retain top faculty. The project will include 662 apartments, 343 single-family homes, 42,500 square feet of commercial space, a recreation center and study facilities. West Village will also host the first community college on a UC campus.
The classes held in this area mainly involve plant sciences, but also include entomology courses as well. Students in the plant sciences maintain gardens as part of the PLS 5 lab while Entomology 156L and 158 students embark on field trips to sample fish for parasites at Putah Creek and conduct projects in forensic entomology at the UC Davis ecosystem, respectively. West Campus is also home to the University Airport, Foundation Plant Services, the California National Primate Research Center, and the Contained Research Facility, a bio-safety level 3 facility.[46]
Arboretum
To the south side of the campus core is the 100-acre UC Davis Arboretum, which includes 3.5 miles of paved paths, 4,000 tree specimens, Putah Creek and Lake Spafford.[50] On March 10, 2017, a multi-year waterway enhancement project began.[51]
Artwork
There are seven public art statues found around campus, collectively called The Egghead Series, sculpted by the late Robert Arneson, who also taught at Davis from 1962 to 1991.[52]
Bookhead is located at the Shields Library plaza, Yin & Yang is located at the Fine Arts Complex, See No Evil/Hear No Evil is at the east lawn of King Hall (the main building for UC Davis' School of Law), Eye on Mrak (FatalLaff) is outside Mrak Hall (housing the registrar office and other administrative offices), and Stargazer is located between North Hall and Young Hall. The Yin & Yang egg heads have been recast and duplicated for installation near the Port of San Francisco Ferry Building in San Francisco.[53]
Museums on campus include the
Student housing
UC Davis Student Housing operates 23 residence halls totaling 29 buildings which are organized into three areas: Segundo, Tercero, and Cuarto.[55] UC Davis Student Housing is large enough to accommodate over 11,000 students. Typically, campus operated housing is reserved exclusively for first-year students, whereby other students are required to seek housing off-campus at apartments or rented homes. The northwest end of campus holds the majority of the Segundo undergraduate housing complex, and various alternative housing sites, such as Orchard Park, Russell Park, The Colleges at LaRue Apartments, and Primero Grove. The Activities and Recreation Center, or the ARC, is also located near the Segundo complex. Adjacent to the northwest corner of campus is the Cuarto undergraduate housing complex, which has one dining commons.
The Tercero undergraduate housing complex is located near the geographic center of the UC Davis campus, to the north of the Arboretum Waterway. This extends longitudinally through almost the entirety of the south end of campus. Solano Park, UC Davis' family housing complex, is located adjacent to the Arboretum Waterway, at the Eastern end of campus. The
Organization and administration
The entire
The UC Davis Chancellor has overall responsibility for the leadership, management, and administration of the campus and reports to the President of the University of California system, a position currently held by the former president of Ohio State University (and chancellor of UC Irvine), Michael Drake, whose predecessor was former Secretary of Homeland Security and Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano.
The Offices of the Chancellor and Provost is headed by the executive vice-chancellor and provost (EVCP). In their capacity as executive vice-chancellor, the EVCP shares with the chancellor in the overall leadership and management of campus administration and operations, whereas as provost, the EVCP is UC Davis' chief academic officer.
The senior staff provides executive support to the Offices of the Chancellor and Provost. The Council of Deans and Vice-Chancellor consists of the heads of the university's major academic and administrative units.[57]
Students are most likely to interact with or be directly affected by the Office of Student Affairs, which is run by the vice chancellor of student affairs, currently Fred Wood, and by a variety of associate and assistant vice-chancellors. This office oversees many campus units including: Admissions, Athletics, Campus Recreation, Campus Unions, Counseling and Psychological Services, Financial Aid, Student Housing and others.[58]
Student demographics
Race and ethnicity[59] | Total | ||
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Asian | 28% | ||
Hispanic | 24% | ||
White | 22% | ||
Foreign national | 16% | ||
Other[a] | 7% | ||
Black | 2% | ||
Economic diversity | |||
Low-income[b] | 32% | ||
Affluent[c] | 68% |
In 2014, Chancellor Katehi stated that UC Davis aimed to become a
Census data
University of California-Davis | |
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In 2010, the
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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2010 | 5,786 | — | |
2020 | 8,525 | 47.3% | |
U.S. Decennial Census[64] 2020[65] |
2020 census
Race / Ethnicity | Pop 2010[66] | Pop 2020[65] | % 2010 | % 2020 |
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White alone (NH)
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2,172 | 4,046 | 37.54% | 47.46% |
Black or African American alone (NH)
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136 | 339 | 2.35% | 3.98% |
Alaska Native alone (NH)
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12 | 102 | 0.21% | 1.20% |
Asian alone (NH) | 2,424 | 2,079 | 41.89% | 24.39% |
Pacific Islander alone (NH) | 7 | 155 | 0.12% | 1.82% |
Some Other Race alone (NH) | 17 | 31 | 0.29% | 0.36% |
Mixed Race/Multi-Racial (NH) | 290 | 364 | 5.01% | 4.27% |
Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 728 | 1,409 | 12.58% | 16.53% |
Total | 5,786 | 8,525 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.
Academics
The university has 102 undergraduate majors and 101 graduate programs.
UC Davis undergraduate majors are divided into four colleges:
- UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
- UC Davis College of Biological Sciences
- UC Davis College of Engineering
- UC Davis College of Letters and Science
Rankings
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UC Davis is considered to be a "
The university has several distinguished graduate programs ranked in the top 10 in their fields by the
The Academic Ranking of World Universities placed UC Davis 40th nationally and 90th globally for 2019.[87] In its 2019 rankings, Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked it tied for 59th in the world.[88] The QS World University Rankings ranked it tied for 104th globally for its 2020 ratings, with Veterinary Science ranked 2nd in the world.[89]
In 2016, Sierra Magazine ranked UC Davis 8th in its "Greenest Schools" in America list for campus sustainability and climate change efforts.[90]
Admissions
2022 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | |
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Applicants | 94,759 | 78,092 | 76,647 | 70,214 | 67,472 | 64,510 | 60,506 |
Admits | 35,563 | 30,508 | 31,564 | 30,573 | 28,617 | 24,614 | 24,541 |
% Admitted | 37.5 | 39.1 | 41.2 | 43.5 | 42.4 | 38.2 | 40.6 |
Enrolled | 6,498 | 5,982 | 6,389 | 5,820 | 5,760 | 5,369 | 5,377 |
Average GPA | 4.06–4.30 | 4.00–4.26 | 4.03 | 3.99 | 3.99 | 4.00 | 4.00 |
SAT Range | N/A | 1230–1490* | 1150–1410* | 1120–1360* | 1570–1980 | 1600–2000 | 1620–2010 |
ACT Range | N/A | 24–31 | 25–31 | 25–31 | 24–30 | 24–30 | 22–28 |
*out of 1600 |
Admission to UC Davis is rated as "more selective" by U.S. News & World Report.[98]
For Fall 2019, UC Davis received 78,093 freshmen applications; 30,358 were admitted (39.1%) and 5,957 enrolled.
For 2021 incoming freshman class, UC Davis received a record of 105,850 applicants, an 11% increase from last year.[99] The admission rate for incoming freshman for the class of 2021 was 37.5%.[100]
Library
UC Davis' libraries include the
Army ROTC
The university is host to an Army
Graduate studies
The University of California Davis Graduate Programs of Study consist of over 90 post-graduate programs, offering masters and doctoral degrees and post-doctoral courses.[102] The programs educate over 4,000 students[103] from around the world.
UC Davis has the following graduate and professional schools, the most in the entire UC system:
- UC Davis Graduate Studies
- Graduate School of Management
- School of Education
- School of Law
- School of Medicine
- School of Veterinary Medicine
- Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing
History
The University of California, Davis graduate division[104] has a long history. Graduate education has been a major feature of the academic focus for over 80 years. This academic tradition began in the fall of 1925, when 12 students received graduate degrees from the College of Agriculture through a partnership with the graduate division of the University California at Berkeley.[105][106] Over the years, the programs continued to grow, interact and collaborate. The first graduate degrees were awarded from the UC Davis campus in the fall of 1949.[107]
In 1961, autonomous Graduate Divisions and Graduate Councils were established on all University of California campuses to provide focused oversight of their graduate programs.[106]
Academics
A key feature of graduate education at UC Davis is the graduate group. The core elements of a graduate group include an emphasis on "shared research interests among faculty and students; flexibility to grow and quickly change to reflect emerging areas of interdisciplinary knowledge and technology; and an acceptance that many research questions transcend traditional academic departmental boundaries."[108] UC Davis offers more graduate groups than any other campus in the UC system.[109]
Medical school admissions
In 2016, U.S. News & World Report named UC Davis School of Medicine as the 6th most competitive medical school in the United States with an acceptance rate of 2.8%.[110]
Faculty and research
UC Davis is one of 62 members in the Association of American Universities, an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. It consists of sixty universities in the United States (both public and private) and two universities in Canada.
Between 2017 and 2020
Research expenditures
UC Davis spent $788.8 million on research and development in fiscal year 2018, ranking it 30th in the nation.[114]
Faculty honors
Its faculty includes 23 members of the
Research centers and laboratories
The campus supports a number of research centers and laboratories including:
- Advanced Highway Maintenance Construction Technology Research Laboratory
- BGI at UC Davis Joint Genome Center (in planning process)[115]
- Bodega Marine Reserve
- C-STEM Center
- CalEPR Center
- California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
- California International Law Center
- California National Primate Research Center
- California Raptor Center
- Center for Health and the Environment
- Center for Mind and Brain
- Center for Poverty Research
- Center for Regional Change
- Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas
- Center for Visual Sciences
- Contained Research Facility
- Crocker Nuclear Laboratory
- Davis Millimeter Wave Research Center (A joint effort of Agilent Technologies Inc. and UC Davis) (in planning process)
- Information Center for the Environment
- John Muir Institute of the Environment (the largest research unit at UC Davis, spanning all Colleges and Professional Schools)
- McLaughlin Natural Reserve
- MIND Institute
- Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Center
- Quail Ridge Reserve
- Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve
- Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) (a collaborative effort with Sierra Nevada University)
- UC Center Sacramento
- UC Davis Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility
- University of California Pavement Research Center
- University of California Solar Energy Center (UC Solar)
- Energy Efficiency Center (the very first university run energy efficiency center in the Nation).
- Western Institute for Food Safety and Security
The Crocker Nuclear Laboratory on campus has had a
Agilent Technologies will also work with the university in establishing a Davis Millimeter Wave Research Center to conduct research into millimeter wave and THz systems.[119]
Student life
The undergraduate student government of UC Davis is the Associated Students of UC Davis (ASUCD), and has an annual operating budget of $11.1 million, making it one of the largest-funded student governments in the United States.[120] ASUCD includes an Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branch. Other than representing the student body on campus, the task of ASUCD is to lobby student interests to local and state government. Also under the purview of ASUCD are the student-run Coffee House, an ASUCD unit, and Unitrans, the Davis public bus system. ASUCD employs thousands of students[121] annually across its many units.
Another highlight of UC Davis is its student-run
UC Davis has over 500 registered student organizations, ranging from political clubs to professional societies to language clubs.
The academic Graduate Students and management students are represented by the Graduate Student Association (GSA). The Law Students are represented by Law Students Association.
Students are also encouraged to wear Aggie Blue on game days to show their Aggie Pride. If spotted wearing Aggie Blue by the Aggie Pack, students may have UC Davis paraphernalia thrown at them as a reward.
Students also participate in intramural sports such as basketball, ultimate frisbee, soccer and many more. The ARC contains a basketball gym, work out room, ping pong tables, squash courts, rock climbing wall, and other studio rooms for group exercise.
Other student activities and campus jobs:
- Unitrans, the student run (and driven) bus system.
- The Coffee House, also known as the CoHo, is a student run restaurant serving 7000 customers daily.
- The Bike Barn, a bicycle shop that sells and rents bicycles and cycling equipment, also a full-service repair shop.
- KDVS, student radio.[124]
- The Entertainment Council,[125] responsible for bringing famous musicians to campus and organizing student events.[126]
Transportation
Bicyclists are ubiquitous on campus and in the city. Both the university and municipality encourages this with bicycle-only infrastructure such as bike circles, large bike lanes, and traffic signals specifically for bikes. UC Davis has a road and mountain bike team which has won several national championship titles.[127] The campus police department also has some of its officers patrol on bicycles and take bicycling under the influence ("BUI") and bicycling without a headlight at night very seriously. All bikes on the UC Davis campus must be registered with a California Bicycle license or they risk being sold at the on campus bike auction. Students usually have their bicycles serviced on-campus at the ASUCD Bike Barn or at other bike shops around town.
UC Davis is also well known for its bus service,
The central campus is bounded by freeways on two sides (
The California Aggie
UC Davis publishes a weekly
Initially, the Weekly Agricola was focused on both student news and farming-related topics. Novelist Jack London was one of the first readers of the Weekly Agricola. In 1922, it was renamed to match the school's athletic name.[130] Between March 2014 and October 2016, the Aggie was not in print but was still accessible online. The Aggie is in print and available on campus again as of October 2016[update].[131]
Greek life
Social fraternities and sororities have been a part of the University of California at Davis since 1913. Approximately 8% of the university's undergraduate students are involved in the school's fraternities and sororities. One sorority, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi, was featured during the first season of the MTV reality show Sorority Life.
There are currently 13 social fraternities that are a part of the Interfraternity Council (IFC) in Davis. The IFC representatives attend weekly meetings to guarantee that all UC Davis rules and regulations are followed. The meetings are also used to inform the fraternities about all upcoming activities throughout the week. The 13 fraternities are: Alpha Gamma Rho, Alpha Sigma Phi, Chi Phi, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Delta Theta, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Theta Chi, and Theta Xi.[132]
The Davis Collegiate Panhellenic Council (DCPA) is similar to the Interfraternity Council, but is the governing council for several sororities at UC Davis. They are responsible for organizing recruitment, and overseeing that all regulations are upheld. There are currently 11 sororities that are a part of the Panhellenic Council. The 11 sororities are: alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi.[133]
The Phi chapter of
Athletics
The
The UC Davis Men's Crew Club is one of the successful clubs both on campus and in the West. In 2008 the JV boat won first in nationals at the ACRA Championships in Tennessee and in 2009 the Varsity boat got second place in nationals at the ACRA Championships. They consistently compete against teams such as Stanford, the University of Washington and UC Berkeley.
The Aggies finished first in NCAA Division II six times in 2003 and won the NACDA Directors' Cup 4 years in a row from 1999 to 2003. In 1998, the UC Davis men's basketball team won the NCAA Division II national championship despite being one of the few non-scholarship institutions in Division II at that time. They have also won NCAA Division II championships in Softball (2003), Men's Tennis (1992), and Women's Tennis (1990, 1993). These and other achievements motivated a decision (following a year of heavy discussion by campus administrators, faculty, staff, students, alumni and the local community) in 2003 for the athletics program to re-classify to Division I.[135][136]
The highlight of UC Davis's 4-year transition to Division I occurred on September 17, 2005, when the Aggies defeated the heavily favored Stanford Cardinal at Stanford Stadium by a score of 20–17 on a touchdown pass with 8 seconds left in the game. The Aggies also pulled off an upset against Stanford in basketball just months later, beating the Cardinal 64–58 with a late rally at home on December 4, 2005.
The Aggie football team plays
UC Davis had a wrestling program, which competed in the Pac-10 at the Division I level. In 2007, UC Davis wrestler Derek Moore gained All-American status, as well as winning the NCAA Division I Championships for his weight class. Moore also received the "Most Outstanding Wrestler" award of the NCAA tournament. In doing so, Derek Moore became the first UC Davis student-athlete to become an NCAA champion at the Division I level. That same year, UC Davis finished within the top 25 for Division I collegiate wrestling programs in the country.
Because of budget pressure, wrestling was cut from the athletic department in April 2010. Other cuts included men's swimming, men's indoor track, and women's rowing. The athletics department had to cut $1.79 million out of the budget. 14 women's teams and 9 men's teams were funded for the 2010–2011 school year.[137]
The official school colors are blue and gold. The blue is due to the UC's early connection to Yale[138] and as a result is often referred to as "Yale Blue" (e.g., see).[139] and[140] UCD's official blue, usually called "Aggie Blue", is Pantone 295,[141] which is distinct from Yale Blue (approximately Pantone 289).[142]
The official school mascot is the mustang. Students at UC Davis are referred to as Aggies in honor of the school's origins in agricultural studies. Unlike most colleges, there is a distinction between the name for students and the mascot. Some students supported changing the school mascot from the mustang to a cow, but alumni opposed this action. Many people call the mustang mascot of UC Davis an Aggie, but it is named Gunrock. The name dates to 1921 when the US Army brought a thoroughbred horse named Gunrock to UC Davis to supply high-quality breeding stock for the U.S. Cavalry remount program. The mustang mascot was selected to honor that cavalry horse.
Sustainability
UC Davis has implemented many environmentally sustainable features on campus. In the Fall of 2010, UCD opened a renovated Dining Commons in the Cuarto living area. The dining hall uses local produce and promotes sustainability. The university operates twenty
The university received two Best Practice Awards at the 2009 annual Sustainability Conference, held by the University of California, California State University and the California Community Colleges, for the campus's lighting retrofit project and sustainable design in new construction.[146]
UC Davis harvests olives from the old trees on campus to produce olive oil[147] and table olives for use in campus dining rooms.[148] It has designed landscaping with drought-tolerant trees and other plants.[149] The campus operates its own landfill, where it converts landfill (methane) gas to energy.[150] For its efforts in campus sustainability, UC Davis earned an A− on the 2011 College Sustainability Report Card, one of 27 universities to achieve this, the highest grade awarded.[151]
In February 2014, UC Davis and Diamond Developers formed a joint venture to create a sustainable city in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.[152] The draft design for the sustainable city in Dubai called for an "eco-village" on 120 acres with enough housing for 1,200 people. The plan called for K-12 education, apartments, single family homes, and retail shops.[153] In May 2015, UC Davis and Diamond expanded the joint venture to include sustainability professional training program.[152]
UC Davis became the first university to implement requiring payment of a fee for all single-use bags distributed on campus; it is working to become the first university campus to ban plastic bags entirely.[154]
UC Davis is also home to the Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI),[155] which is part of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES). ASI provides leadership for research, teaching, outreach, and extension efforts in agricultural and food systems sustainability at the Davis campus and throughout the UC system.
UC Davis hosted the Governors' Global Climate Summit 3 (GGCS3),[156] an international climate forum for the top leaders of local, regional, national and international entities, as well as those from academia, business and nonprofits. The summit worked to broaden national partnerships in continuing to grow a clean, green economy. The summit included more than 1,500 attendees from more than 80 countries.
Alumni
UC Davis currently has over 260,000 living alumni.
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Charles M. Rice, 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
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Anna Escobedo Cabral, US Treasurer
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Chief Justice of California
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DeAnne Julius, American-British economist
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Sir Chow Chung-kong, chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
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John S. Watson, CEO of Chevron
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Sacramento
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Kate Tsui, Hong Kong actress
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Hasan Minhaj, actor and comedian
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DJ Shadow, music producer and DJ
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James F. Brooks, historian and professor
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Doug Girod, chancellor of the University of Kansas
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Tracy Caldwell Dyson, chemist and NASA astronaut
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Stephen Robinson, NASA astronaut
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Daniel Descalso, infielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks
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punter
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Urijah Faber, mixed martial artist
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Martin Yan, cooking show host and food writer
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Stephen McFeely, screenwriters and producers
See also
- C.N. Gorman Museum
- Justice Waits
- Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
- Mondavi Center
- The Pavilion (UC Davis)
Notes
- ^ Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.
- Pell grantintended for low-income students.
- ^ The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.
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