The University of California,Davis,is a public land-grant research university in Davis,California,United States. 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.
The University of California Davis School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of California,Davis. While the parent institution is located in Davis,California,the medical school is in Sacramento,California.
The UC Davis College of Engineering is one of four undergraduate colleges on the campus of the University of California,Davis. One of the largest engineering programs in the U.S.,the UC Davis College of Engineering offers 11 ABET-accredited undergraduate engineering majors. The college offers majors from a broad scope of engineering disciplines,including aerospace science,biochemical,biological systems,biomedical,chemical,civil,computer science,electrical,materials science,and mechanical engineering.
UC Davis Medical Center (UCDMC) is part of UC Davis Health and a major academic health center located in Sacramento,California. It is owned and operated by the University of California as part of its University of California,Davis campus. The medical center sits on a 142-acre (57 ha) campus (often referred to as the Sacramento Campus to distinguish it from the main campus in nearby Davis) located between the Elmhurst,Tahoe Park,and Oak Park residential neighborhoods. The site incorporates the land and some of the buildings of the former Sacramento Medical Center (which was acquired from the County of Sacramento in 1973) as well as much of the land (and two buildings) previously occupied by the California State Fair until its 1967 move to a new location.
The University Credit Union Center is an 7,600-seat indoor multi-purpose stadium on the campus of the University of California,Davis in unincorporated Yolo County,California.
S. Shankar Sastry is the Founding Chancellor of the Plaksha University,Mohali and a former Dean of Engineering at University of California,Berkeley.
The UC Davis Aggies football team represents the University of California,Davis in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The football program's first season took place in 1915,and has fielded a team each year since with the exception of 1918 during World War I and from 1943 to 1945 during World War II,when the campus,then known as the University Farm,was shut down. The team was known as the Cal Aggies or California Aggies from 1922 to 1958 when UC Davis was called the Northern Branch of the College of Agriculture.
Linda Pisti Basile Katehi-Tseregounis is a Greek-born American engineering professor and former university administrator. Katehi was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2006) for contributions to three-dimensional integrated circuits and on-wafer packaging and to engineering education. Katehi worked as the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's provost from 2006 to 2009 and dean of engineering at Purdue University from 2002 to 2006. Beginning in 2009,she served as the sixth chancellor of the University of California,Davis.
Mary Rita Cooke Greenwood is a nationally recognized leader in higher education,nutrition,and health sciences. Additionally,her research has been extensively published,internationally recognized,and has earned awards.
Jerry M. Woodall is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California,Davis who is widely known for his revolutionary work on LEDs and semiconductors. Over the course of his career,he has published close to 400 scientific articles and his work has directly contributed to the development of major technologies that are used around the world,such as TVs,optical fibers,and mobile phones. Woodall currently holds over 80 U.S. patents for a variety of inventions and has received prestigious awards from IBM,NASA,and the U.S. President for his contributions to science,technology,and humanity.
Alice Merner Agogino is an American mechanical engineer known for her work in bringing women and people of color into engineering and her research into artificial intelligence,computer-aided design,intelligent learning systems,and wireless sensor networks.
Jonna Ann Keener Mazet is an American epidemiologist and Executive Director of the University of California,Davis One Health Institute. Recognized for her innovative and holistic approach to emerging environmental and global health threats,she is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Mazet is a professor of Epidemiology and Disease Ecology at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine,where she focuses on global health problem solving,especially for emerging infectious disease and conservation challenges.
Susan M. Kauzlarich is an American chemist and is presently a distinguished professor of chemistry at the University of California,Davis. At UC Davis,Kauzlarich leads a research group focused on the synthesis and characterization of Zintl phases and nanoclusters with applications in the fields of thermoelectric materials,magnetic resonance imaging,energy storage,opto-electronics,and drug delivery. Kauzlarich has published over 250 peer-reviewed publications and has been awarded several patents. In 2009,Kauzlarich received the annual Presidential Award for Excellence in Science,Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring,which is administered by the National Science Foundation to acknowledge faculty members who raise the membership of minorities,women and disabled students in the science and engineering fields. In January 2022 she became Deputy Editor for the scientific journal,Science Advances. She gave the Edward Herbert Boomer Memorial Lecture of the University of Alberta in 2023.
Frederic (Fred) T. Chong is an American computer scientist known for research in computer architecture,quantum computing,and computer security.
Sharon Y. Strauss is an American evolutionary ecologist. She is a Professor of Evolution and Ecology at the University of California,Davis.
Renetta Garrison Tull is an American electrical engineer,global policy strategist,and works to advance diversity and inclusion in science,technology,engineering,and mathematics (STEM). Tull is the inaugural Vice Chancellor of Diversity,Equity,and Inclusion at University of California,Davis and a founding Director of the National Science Foundation funded program PROMISE:Alliances for Graduate Education and Professoriate,which aims to increase the number of underrepresented students in STEM. Tull previously served as Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives at the University of Maryland,Baltimore County (UMBC) and was also the Director of Graduate and Professional Pipeline Development for the University System of Maryland (USM) where she also served as the co-Principal Investigator and co-director of the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation. On a global scale,Tull was selected as the keynote speaker for the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) event on the Commission on the Status of Women in Engineering Fields,and was the only American and only female finalist for the Global Engineering Deans Council Airbus Diversity Award in 2015.
Katherine Whittaker Ferrara is an American engineer who is a professor of radiology at Stanford University. Ferrara has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Prasant Mohapatra is an Indian-American computer scientist. Mohapatra is currently the Provost of the University of South Florida. Previously,he was Vice Chancellor for Research at University of California Davis (UC-Davis).
M. Saif Islam is a Bangladeshi-American engineering professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California,Davis.
Barbara A. Horwitz is an American cellular physiologist whose work focuses on metabolism. In particular,her research has centered on the neural and hormonal regulation of energy balance.
