(UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences logo)
(Two people laughing together)
They always sell out. Everybody loves our strawberries.
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Dean Helene Dillard: We have fifteen departments.
We have 30 undergraduate majors and we have 30 graduate fields that relate to our college
And so when you put all that together you have an enormous amount of diversity of research, outreach, extension and teaching that's going on.
(Plant Sciences)
Eduardo Blumwald: In very few years, that say around 2050 we are going to be almost 10 billion people.
You have generate enough food to feed an extra 2.5 billion people
The goal is to generate plants that can grow better under very bad conditions and with less water.
(Community Development)
Some times as they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so these maps tell stories.
(off screen: And there's a lot there.)
We talk about putting social equity in the center of what we do.
It's not enough just to define the problem. We really want to show what can be done with the research to in fact improve conditions in those communities.
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( Sustainable Agriculture)
The Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems major is incredibly unique. It's a pioneering program in the country and really the world.
You really have the opportunity to take classes in totally different departments
and to be able to use all of these different perspectives to have a much better understanding of the complex problems that we aim to address.
(Brewing Science)
The brewing science program is so unique because we get to be in this pilot brewing working on the systems, making our own recipes.
Really getting into the nitty gritty of it.
Charles Bamforth: Beer is not about throwing ping pong balls at it.
Beer is about a lot of science coming together, mingling with tradition and social imperatives to
actually come together to allow people to enjoy what is the world's favorite adult beverage.
(Food Science)
Daniela Barile: It is not just about nutrition. It's also about protection.
So human milk has some molecules that are promoting the growth of good bacteria in the intestine.
And fighting off and starving the bad bacteria. So you use chemistry to look into milk.
And start taking it apart into every single component to find out which one is the one
that is really protective and how can we replicate that.
(Landscape Architecture)
Claire Napawan: There's this kind of balance between the environmental sciences and the human sciences here within the college.
Landscape architecture is an amazing bridge between the two because we design places, environments, for people.
So we're that bridge between environmental and human sciences in a lot of cases.
Essentially anywhere that people are impacting change in the built environment for the benefit of people or plants or animals or the environment.
Our students can be at the forefront of that process.
(Environmental Science)
Dennise Alatorre: So the expertise that we gain here at UC Davis allows undergrads to have that opportunity
to make change and be involved in something that's going to better the future.
There are a lot of opportunities for undergrads to get involved, be out in the field, and do something they're interested in
because UC Davis is so focused on the research. They allow students to be a part of that as well.
(International Outreach)
Jan Hopmans: We have students in Guatemala. We have them in Chile. We have them in Colombia. We have them in Africa.
Our college's expertise, the capacity that we have is world ranked in agriculture, in nutrition and food.
So all that expertise and capacity that we have needs to be coordinated so that we can then take that and use it in other places.
Being the land-grant institution for California, we have that obligation. We have a mandate.
(Cooperative Extension Outreach)
Dean Helene Dillard: Extension specialists are faculty who specialize in taking research that's done in the university campus
and putting it into the real world and making sure that it's being used.
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So it's really a way of bringing the research alive and getting a chance to see it actually used in the real world.
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(Human Development)
Zhe Chen: Human Development students have an opportunity to do their internship in various settings including the Early Childhood Lab School.
(off screen: You have a lot of sponges, huh?)
So these kinds of experiences, hands-on experiences, are very important when you look at how genetics and environmental factors both contribute to human development.
Dean Helene Dillard: You need a place like this university that attracts the best faculty, the best students
and really you put the best staff in there and you start coming out with answers on the other side.
Absolutely UC Davis, hands down.