The imaginative life of 15th century artist, inventor, scientist and engineer Leonardo da Vinci takes center stage in Ken Burns' latest documentary. The two-part documentary titled Leonardo da Vinci premiered Nov. 18 and 19 on PBS stations. UC Davis Associate Professor of Design James Housefield and art studio alumna Julia Couzens (M.F.A. ‘90) led a discussion on da Vinci at an advanced partial-screening of the documentary at PBS KVIE in Sacramento on Nov. 14.
Junko Ito, continuing lecturer of Japanese, has named the 2024 California Japanese Language Teacher of the Year by the California Association of Japanese Language Teachers. Ito has taught in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in L&S since 2010.
