In her new book, "Real Food, Real Facts: Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge," Charlotte Biltekoff explores friction between the U.S. public and food marketers when it comes to food processing. She and others at UC Davis are making these types of conversations real and accessible to people both in and outside of the food industry.
The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, unveils the first U.S. presentation of Italy’s renowned Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, and the first solo museum exhibition of artist Ruby Neri.
Since the first iteration of “Design in Europe," a study abroad program at UC Davis, students have kept visual journals of their travels – six to eight pages per day – that are a mix between a scrapbook, sketchbook, travelogue, collage and diary. The journals have been exhibited in Iceland, Scotland, England and the Netherlands. Now, for the first time, these journals are being exhibited all together right here in Davis, Calif.
Using his art to comment on social and environmental issues, Enrique Chagoya’s prints, drawings, collages and multiples offer critical commentary on the global reach of the United States and its cultural, political and historical tensions with Latin America. The artist is speaking on Thursday, Jan. 30, for the 2025 Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture at UC Davis.
The Global Tea Institute celebrates its 10-year anniversary this year. In the last decade, what started as a group of 12 like-minded scholars gathering together has turned into a hub for the study of tea across the disciplines. Every year its annual colloquium brings between 400 and 800 people from all over the world to UC Davis.
A collaborative project led by UC Davis, working with four California Community Colleges and three California State University campuses, has won a $1.5 million grant to help address equity gaps in writing support and AI literacy.
A participant in a University of California pilot program to help students return to finish their degrees, Emmanuel "Manny" Garcia Pereida of Oakland will graduate from UC Davis Dec. 14. When he crossed the graduation stage for the first time in 2019, he didn't realize he was eight credits shy of his degree.
With flavor and flair, a community of academics, chefs and food justice advocates are sparking conversation at UC Davis and beyond through the new seminar Thinking Food at the Intersections: Justice and Critical Food Studies. The seminar series is supported by a $225,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation received earlier this year.
The Davis Humanities Institute is on track to start anew. By fall 2025, it will become the campus hub for making connections and sharing ideas across the arts, humanities and beyond. Its goals include making a deeper impact on campus and in the community, providing more research opportunities for undergraduate students and supporting cross-collaborations between disciplines within the College of Letters and Science as well as other colleges within UC Davis.
Where's Jukie? uses poems by Dr. Andy Jones and essays by Kate Duren to present the joys and challenges of raising their son Jukie, a boy with autism and Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome. The authors of this book -- the parents of three children, including Jukie -- together have more than 50 years experience reading and communicating emotions with deft and wit, and counseling parents and children with special challenges.
