:University of California, Davis

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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.{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/141 141–142]}}See [https://books.google.com/books?id=srpAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA248 Cal. Stats., 17th sess., 1867–1868, ch. 244, § 2]. 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.{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/143 143]}} 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.

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.{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/144 144]}} 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.{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/145 145]}} Hilgard was disdainful of the idea of a university farm.{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/150 150]}} 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.

Around the turn of the 20th century, Peter J. Shields, secretary of the California Agricultural Society, became aware that colleges of agriculture elsewhere had university farms which performed experiments and provided hands-on education in useful agricultural subjects, and that young people were leaving the state to study at such farms.{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/151 151]}} Shields began to champion the cause of a university farm. He was later honored as the "founder" of UC Davis in 1962, when the Shields Oak Grove on campus was named after him, and again posthumously in 1972 when the campus library was named after him.{{cite news |last1=Rifkin |first1=Rich |title=Peter J. Shields: remembering a long life |url=https://www.davisenterprise.com/forum/opinion-columns/peter-j-shields-remembering-a-long-life/ |access-date=August 21, 2020 |work=Davis Enterprise |publisher=McNaughton Newspapers, Inc. |date=November 7, 2012 |page=A10}} However, local farmer and politician George Washington Pierce Jr. also fought aggressively in the California State Assembly for the creation of a university farm. Shields himself credited Pierce with ensuring that the site criteria in the University Farm Bill were so tightly formulated that they could be met only at the Yolo County town of Davisville. Unlike Shields, Pierce did not live long enough to see the promotion of Davis to a general campus and is now largely forgotten.

On March 18, 1905, the University Farm Bill was enacted, which called for the establishment of a farm for the University of California.{{cite book |last1=Dingemans |first1=Dennis |last2=Scheuring |first2=Ann Foley |title=University of California, Davis|year=2013|publisher=Arcadia|location=Charleston|isbn=9780738596990|page=7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqVPwTiqc4cC&pg=PA7}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=I7hHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA131 Cal. Stats., 36th sess., 1905, ch. 139, §§ 1-6.] The bill provided that the University Farm would "be typical and representative of the best general agricultural conditions in California", and authorized an appropriation of $150,000 to cover the cost of purchasing land and constructing appropriate buildings. 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 town then known as Davisville.{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/152 152]}} 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. The vocational program was shortened from three to two years in 1923.{{cite web|title=History of UC Davis|url=https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/archives-and-special-collections/history-uc-davis/|work=UC Davis Archives and Special Collections website|access-date=November 8, 2020}}

In 1916, the Farm's 314 students occupied the original {{convert|778|acre|ha}} campus. The institution grew at a breakneck pace over the next four decades. By 1951, it had expanded to a size of {{convert|3000|acre|ha}}.{{cite web|title=History from UC Davis official site|date=November 19, 2015|url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/about/history/|access-date=December 21, 2019}} Along the way, it was renamed in 1922 to become the Northern Branch of the College of Agriculture, and in 1938, it became the College of Agriculture at Davis.

Initially, no degrees were awarded at Davis.{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/340 340]}} 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. 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. This forced the regents in 1922 to silence such proposals by initially authorizing a two-year undergraduate program at Davis. By sharing faculty members between Berkeley and Davis and hiring a few more faculty members, the university was able to provide almost all courses of a "complete undergraduate program" at Davis—that is, a four-year program leading to the bachelor's degree. The first class graduated from Davis in 1926.

UC regularly appointed faculty members to joint positions at both Berkeley and Davis.{{cite book|last1=Kerr|first1=Clark|title=The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Volume 1|date=2001|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=9780520223677|page=306|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jMEZ_47vXkAC&pg=PA306|access-date=17 August 2020}} This was possible because the two campuses are separated by only 53 miles (85 km), and the opening of a new bridge over the Carquinez Strait in 1927 greatly shortened the drive between them. Sharing faculty meant that the two campuses have always had an amicable relationship, in that Davis gradually developed its own strong identity while remaining proud of its older sibling. Thus, Davis did not suffer from the kind of "hang-ups" (i.e., inferiority complexes) which at Los Angeles culminated in a systemwide decentralization process from 1957 to 1960 in which the regents and the UC president delegated most of their powers and responsibilities to chancellors at the campus level.{{cite book |last1=Kerr |first1=Clark |title=The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Volume 1 |date=2001 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=9780520223677 |pages=191–205 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jMEZ_47vXkAC&pg=PA191 |access-date=February 3, 2019 |archive-date=September 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240905060936/https://books.google.com/books?id=jMEZ_47vXkAC&pg=PA191#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }} Davis still retains a few traditions from its early era when its identity was much more intertwined with Berkeley, such as the Bossy Cow-Cow cheer, a parody of Berkeley's Oski Yell.

In 1941, the state legislature authorized the creation of a school of veterinary medicine at Davis, but the school's launch was severely delayed by the entrance of the United States into World War II and it did not open until 1948.{{cite book |last1=Dingemans |first1=Dennis |last2=Scheuring |first2=Ann Foley |title=University of California, Davis|year=2013|publisher=Arcadia|location=Charleston|isbn=9780738596990|page=44|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqVPwTiqc4cC&pg=PA44}} In 1943, the U.S. Army Signal Corps took over Davis to use the campus as a training facility. The Davis campus was not returned to civilian use until the end of 1944.{{cite book |last1=Dingemans |first1=Dennis |last2=Scheuring |first2=Ann Foley |title=University of California, Davis|year=2013|publisher=Arcadia|location=Charleston|isbn=9780738596990|page=42|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqVPwTiqc4cC&pg=PA42}}

From 1926 to 1947, all Davis students earning bachelor's degrees had to travel to Berkeley for graduation.{{cite book |last1=Dingemans |first1=Dennis |last2=Scheuring |first2=Ann Foley |title=University of California, Davis|year=2013|publisher=Arcadia|location=Charleston|isbn=9780738596990|page=41|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqVPwTiqc4cC&pg=PA41}} In 1948, "the regents agreed to decentralize graduations". In a ceremony at Davis that year, UC President Robert Gordon Sproul "awarded 101 bachelor of science degrees in agriculture", along with 195 certificates to graduates of the two-year vocational program.

In 1949, UC expanded the Davis campus to what is now West Campus by purchasing the 526-acre Straloch Farm to the west from its owner, Harry Hopkins.{{cite book |last1=Dingemans |first1=Dennis |last2=Scheuring |first2=Ann Foley |title=University of California, Davis|year=2013|publisher=Arcadia|location=Charleston|isbn=9780738596990|page=54|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqVPwTiqc4cC&pg=PA54}}{{cite news |last1=Robertson |first1=Kathy |title=Yolo pilots alarmed |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2002/04/22/story7.html |work=Sacramento Business Journal |date=April 21, 2002 |url-access=subscription}} The farm came with an 86-acre private airport constructed by Hopkins in 1946. The University Airport was the first university airport in the United States and is still the only one in the UC system.

In 1958, the vocational program was discontinued.

For much of its early history, Davis was treated as an offsite department of the main campus in Berkeley, and its chief administrative officer was a director who reported to the dean of the College of Agriculture at Berkeley.{{cite journal |title=Prospectus of the College of Agriculture, 1925-1926 |journal=University of California Bulletin |series=Third Series |date=May 1925 |volume=18 |issue=3 |page=Inside front cover |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9PX3xXB6LOoC&pg=PP2}} This source indicates that by 1925, the College of Agriculture was stating that letters of inquiry should be addressed to either the dean of the college at Berkeley or the director of the "branch" of the college at Davis. Before the World Wide Web was invented, persons interested in learning about a particular academic institution had to send a request by mail for a "prospectus" which was a glorified brochure. In 1944, the title became assistant dean and in 1951, the title was upgraded to provost. In May 1952, the university appointed Harry R. Wellman as its first vice-president—agricultural sciences in charge of a new Division of Agriculture, which included the existing statewide College of Agriculture at Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, and Riverside; the agricultural extension field stations; and the county farm offices.{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/358 358]}} The provosts at Davis and Riverside reported to the president through this new vice-president (rather than through the College of Agriculture).

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).{{cite book |last1=Dingemans |first1=Dennis |last2=Scheuring |first2=Ann Foley |title=University of California, Davis |date=2013 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston, South Carolina |isbn=9780738596990 |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqVPwTiqc4cC&pg=PA46 |access-date=December 4, 2022}} 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 regents as a general campus and its chancellor was vested with the same autonomy as the chancellors at UC Berkeley and UCLA—meaning that like them, Davis's chancellor would now report directly to the university's president.{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/406 406–407]}} The Board of Regents declared that Davis's College of Agriculture "will continue to be the University's major center of teaching and research in agriculture, which will remain a dominant emphasis". The board also suggested that the Davis campus should give "special attention" to "opportunities" to be of service to the state government due to its proximity to the state capital at Sacramento. Finally, the board set an enrollment target of 6,000 students by 1970.

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.{{cite book |last1=Dingemans |first1=Dennis |last2=Scheuring |first2=Ann Foley |title=University of California, Davis |date=2013 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston, South Carolina |isbn=9780738596990 |page=57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqVPwTiqc4cC&pg=PA57 |access-date=December 4, 2022}} 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. When Mrak retired in 1969, the campus administration building was named Mrak Hall in his honor.{{cite book |last1=Dingemans |first1=Dennis |last2=Scheuring |first2=Ann Foley |title=University of California, Davis |date=2013 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston, South Carolina |isbn=9780738596990 |page=58 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqVPwTiqc4cC&pg=PA58 |access-date=December 4, 2022}}

Davis's Graduate Division was established in 1961. This was followed by the creation of the College of Engineering in 1962. The School of Law opened for classes in fall 1966, and the School of Medicine began instruction in fall 1968. 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.

{{main|UC Davis pepper-spray incident}}

During the Occupy movement against economic inequality, students at UC Davis organized the Occupy UC Davis protests in opposition to tuition hikes. On November 18, 2011, a campus police officer, Lieutenant John Pike, used pepper spray on a group of seated peaceful demonstrators when they refused to disperse, and another officer also pepper sprayed demonstrators at Pike's direction. The incident drew international attention and led to further demonstrations, a formal investigation, and Pike's departure in July 2012.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2011-nov-20-la-me-occupy-uc-davis-20111120-story.html|title=UC Davis chief launches probe into pepper-spraying of Occupy protesters|date=November 20, 2011|last2=Quinones|first2=Sam|last1=Pringle|first1=Paul|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc-davis-pepper-spray-20111121%2C0%2C6653674.story|title=UC president vows to review police procedures at campuses|date=November 20, 2011|last2=Sewell|first2=Abby|last1=Gordon|first1=Larry|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/01/us/california-pepper-spray/index.html|title=Pepper-spraying policeman departs U.C.-Davis|date=August 1, 2012|work=CNN}}

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.{{cite news|url=http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article71659992.html|title=UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper spray references from Internet|date=April 13, 2016|newspaper=Sacramento Bee|last2=Lambert|first2=Diana|last1=Stanton|first1=Sam|access-date=April 13, 2016}} California newspaper The Sacramento Bee obtained a document outlining the public relations strategy, which stated: "Nevins and Associates is prepared to create and execute an online branding campaign designed to clean up the negative attention the University of California, Davis, and Chancellor Katehi have received related to the events that transpired in November 2011". The strategy included an "aggressive and comprehensive online campaign to eliminate the negative search results" intended to achieve the "eradication of references to the pepper spray incident in search results on Google for the university and the Chancellor".{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36102959|title=Pepper spray university says sorry for search manipulation|last=Rawlinson|first=Kevin|date=April 21, 2016|website=BBC News Online|access-date=April 21, 2016}} The university's strategic communications office, which has worked on the management of the reputation of the university and its chancellor, has had its budget substantially increased since the current chancellor took office – rising from $2.93 million in 2009 to $5.47 million in 2015. In August 2016 Katehi resigned as chancellor, and under the terms of her contract, will continue to be a full-time faculty member at UCD.Chokshi, Niraj, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/us/embattled-university-of-california-davis-chancellor-resigns.html "Embattled University of California, Davis, Chancellor Resigns"], The New York Times, August 9, 2016.

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.{{Cite web|last=Jones|first=Dave|date=February 23, 2017|title=Regents Confirm Gary May as Chancellor|url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/regents-confirm-gary-may-chancellor|access-date=October 26, 2021|website=UC Davis|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=September 24, 2018|title=Diversity, Not Drama: Q&A With UC Davis's Chancellor Gary May|url=https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/fall-2018-culture-shift/qa-gary-may-african-american-uc-davis-chancellor|access-date=October 26, 2021|website=Cal Alumni Association}}{{Cite web|last=Tucker|first=Jill|date=February 22, 2017|title=Georgia Tech engineering dean named new UC Davis chancellor|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-chancellor-named-for-UC-Davis-10948667.php|access-date=October 26, 2021|website=SFGATE|language=en-US}}

{{Main|2022 University of California academic workers' 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.{{Cite news |last=Hubler |first=Shawn |date=2022-12-24 |title=University of California Academic Workers End Strike |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/us/university-california-workers-strike.html |access-date=2024-04-29 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

{{main|2023 Davis, California stabbings}}

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, Carlos Reales Dominguez, as a suspect for the crimes.{{cite web |url=https://www.kcra.com/article/davis-who-is-carlos-dominguez-accused-serial-killer/43797897 |title=Carlos Dominguez named as accused Davis serial killer. Here's what we know about him |date=May 5, 2023 |website=KCRA |first1=Jonathan |last1=Ayestas |access-date=May 5, 2023}}

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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 {{convert|15|mi|km|1}} west of Sacramento in the Sacramento Valley, part of California's Central Valley, and is adjacent to Interstate 80.

The city of Davis is a college town, with the ratio of students to long-term residents estimated at 1:4. Also contributing to the college-town environment is the close proximity of downtown Davis to the campus' main quad—a matter of a few blocks, and 5- to 10-minute walk or bike ride. Davis' 15-minute distance from Sacramento provides it with both the isolation critical to fostering a college-town environment while also providing a lively and large metropolitan area nearby. Although the campus itself is vast, the entire community of Davis is relatively small and is easily traversable on bike utilizing Davis' extensive bicycle trails. The campus is the largest Campus in the UC system.

Towards the northeast end of campus is the Quad, a large rectangular field, which was the historic geographic center of campus. 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.

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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.{{Cite web|url=https://theaggie.org/2013/11/21/trying-to-understand-doomed-in-the-death-star/|title=Trying to understand: Doomed in the "Death Star"|date=November 21, 2013|website=The Aggie|language=en-US|access-date=November 28, 2019}}

The majority of Equestrian Center, and Animal Sciences buildings are located near the Arboretum Waterway, away from the core campus; the West Entry Parking Complex, the Silo Union, and the newly constructed Science Lecture Hall and the Science Laboratory Building are located nearer to the Tercero residence halls and the core of campus. The Mondavi Center, home of the University Symphony Orchestra and other cultural events, is also located near the Tercero complex.{{Cite web |url=http://ue.ucdavis.edu/features/2013_14/university-honors-program.html |title=ucdavis.edu |access-date=September 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905093702/http://ue.ucdavis.edu/features/2013_14/university-honors-program.html |archive-date=September 5, 2017 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/uchistory/archives_exhibits/campus_planning/atkinson_archive/catalog/davis.html|title=Atkinson Photographic Catalog – Davis Catalog|first1=John|last1=Douglass|first2=Sally|last2=Thomas|website=www.lib.berkeley.edu}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://westvillage.ucdavis.edu/press-kit/backgrounder |title=Backgrounder — UC Davis West Village |publisher=Westvillage.ucdavis.edu |access-date=March 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208174851/http://westvillage.ucdavis.edu/press-kit/backgrounder |archive-date=December 8, 2011 |url-status=dead }} West Village plans to provide housing for 3,000 students, faculty and staff.

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.

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.{{Cite web|last=Hetrick|first=Katie|date=November 16, 2018|title=UC Davis Arboretum Visitor Map|url=https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/uc-davis-arboretum-visitor-map|access-date=June 21, 2020|website=UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden|language=en}} On March 10, 2017, a multi-year waterway enhancement project began. The first phase of the project was completed in 2018 and a second phase was completed a year ahead of schedule in November 2024.{{cite web|title=Arboretum Waterway Maintenance and Enhancement Project|url=http://publicgarden.ucdavis.edu/waterway|website=UC Davis Arboretum website|access-date=October 4, 2017}}

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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.{{cite book|last=Levin|first=Elaine|title=The History of American Ceramics: From Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms, 1607 to the present|year=1988|publisher=Harry N. Abrams|location=Ny, Ny|isbn=0-8109-1172-8|pages=227–230}}

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.{{cite news | title=They're egg-cellent! | url=http://www.californiaaggie.com/media/storage/paper981/news/2004/10/15/FrontPage/Theyre.EggCellent-1318392.shtml?norewrite200606260301&sourcedomain=www.californiaaggie.com | archive-url=https://archive.today/20071015142321/http://www.californiaaggie.com/media/storage/paper981/news/2004/10/15/FrontPage/Theyre.EggCellent-1318392.shtml?norewrite200606260301&sourcedomain=www.californiaaggie.com | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 15, 2007 | newspaper=The California Aggie | access-date=July 14, 2007 }}

Museums on campus include the C.N. Gorman Museum, specializing in indigenous and Native American art;{{Cite web|title=C.N. Gorman Museum – Davis CA|url=http://www.aaa.com/travelinfo/california/davis/attractions/cn-gorman-museum-546531.html|access-date=September 15, 2021|website=AAA.com}} and the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, with a focus on local artists from the Bay Area Figurative Movement, Pop art and Funk art movements.

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UC Davis Student Housing operates 23 residence halls totaling 29 buildings which are organized into three areas: Segundo, Tercero, and Cuarto.{{Cite web |url=http://housing.ucdavis.edu/housing/residence_halls.asp |title=UC Davis Student Housing: Residence Halls |access-date=October 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015044659/http://housing.ucdavis.edu/housing/residence_halls.asp |archive-date=October 15, 2017 |url-status=dead }} UC Davis Student Housing accommodates over 11,000 students.

The entire University of California system is governed by the regents, a 26-member board, as established under Article IX, Section 9 of the California Constitution.{{cite web | url=http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/ | title = The Regents | publisher = University of California Site | access-date=February 3, 2011}} The board appoints the university's principal officers including the system-wide president and UC Davis Chancellor.

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.{{cite web | url = http://www.ucdavis.edu/administration/ | title = UC Davis Administration | publisher = UC Davis Site | access-date = February 3, 2011 | archive-date = February 11, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110211010157/http://www.ucdavis.edu/administration/ | url-status = dead }}

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.{{cite web | url = http://studentaffairs.ucdavis.edu/departments.cfm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071115013216/http://studentaffairs.ucdavis.edu/departments.cfm | url-status = dead | archive-date = November 15, 2007 | title = UC Davis Student Affairs | publisher = UC Davis Site | access-date = February 3, 2011 }}

In 2014, Chancellor Katehi stated that UC Davis aimed to become a Hispanic-Serving Institution by the 2018–2019 school year, with at least 25% of the undergraduate student body consisting of Latinos.{{cite news|last1=Katehi|first1=Linda|title=Diversity Leads to Success in Higher Education|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-katehi/diversity-leads-to-succes_b_5908624.html|access-date=January 27, 2015|work=The Huffington Post|date=September 30, 2014}} As of Fall 2023, women comprised 58.4% of undergraduate students.{{Cite web |title=University of California, Davis Student Life |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-california-davis-1313/student-life |access-date=11 March 2025 |website=U.S. News & World Report}}

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1930{{Cite web|title= 1930 Census of Population - Number and Distribution of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1930/population-volume-1/03815512v1ch03.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1940{{Cite web|title= 1940 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1940/population-volume-1/33973538v1ch03.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1950{{Cite web|title= 1950 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/population-volume-1/vol-01-08.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}}
1960{{Cite web|title= 1960 Census of Population - General population Characteristics - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1960/population-volume-1/vol-01-06-d.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1970{{Cite web|title= 1970 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1970a_ca1-01.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1980{{Cite web|title= 1980 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1980a_caAB-01.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}}
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The university has 102 undergraduate majors and 101 graduate programs.{{cite web |url=http://www.ucdavis.edu/about/facts/index.html |title=Facts |date=November 19, 2015 |publisher=University of California, Davis |access-date=September 29, 2019 |archive-date=January 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101232843/http://ucdavis.edu/about/facts/index.html |url-status=dead }} It has a Department of Viticulture and Enology (concerning the scientific study of grape-growing and winemaking) that has been and continues to be responsible for significant advancements in winemaking utilized by many Californian wineries. The campus claims to be noted for its top-rated Agricultural and Resource Economics programs{{cite web|url=http://agecon.ucdavis.edu/|title=UC Davis: Agricultural and Resource Economics|date=January 29, 2014|access-date=December 9, 2011|archive-date=October 23, 1996|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961023235238/http://www.agecon.ucdavis.edu/|url-status=dead}} and the large Department of Animal Science through which students can study at the university's own on-campus dairy, meat-processing plant, equestrian facility, and experimental farm. Students of Environmental Horticulture and other botanical sciences have many acres of campus farmland and the University of California, Davis, Arboretum at their disposal. The Department of Applied Science was founded and formerly chaired by physicist Edward Teller. The arts are also studied extensively on campus with subjects such as studio art, design, music, theater and dance. The Design Department at UC Davis is the only comprehensive academic design unit of the University of California system.{{cite web|url=http://admissions.ucdavis.edu/majors/major_view.cfm?major=ldes|title=UC Davis: Majors – Design|date=November 30, 2015|access-date=December 9, 2011|archive-date=December 8, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208112917/http://admissions.ucdavis.edu/majors/major_view.cfm?major=ldes|url-status=dead}} There is also the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts which features artists from all over the globe.

UC Davis undergraduate majors are divided into four colleges (with their founding in parentheses):

• UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (1922)
• UC Davis College of Biological Sciences (2005)
• UC Davis College of Engineering (1962)
• UC Davis College of Letters and Science (1951)

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UC Davis is considered to be a "Public Ivy."{{cite book |last=Greene |first=Howard R. |title=The public ivies: America's flagship public universities |author2=Greene, Matthew W. |publisher=Cliff Street Books |year=2001 |isbn=978-0060934590 |edition=1st |location=New York}} In its 2023 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked UC Davis tied for the 6th-best public university in the United States, tied for 28th nationally and tied for 73rd globally.{{cite web |title=U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings: UC-Davis |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-california-davis-1313/overall-rankings |access-date=September 23, 2023|magazine=U.S. News & World Report}} Washington Monthly ranked UC Davis 13th in its 2020 National University ranking, based on its contribution to the public good as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service.{{cite magazine |title=2020 National University Rankings |url=https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020college-guide/national |magazine=Washington Monthly |access-date=September 1, 2020}} Money magazine ranked UC Davis 10th in the country out of 739 schools evaluated for its 2020 "Best Colleges for Your Money" edition{{cite magazine |title=The Best Colleges in America, Ranked by Value |url=http://money.com/money/best-colleges/ |magazine=Money |date=August 25, 2020}} and 4th in its list of the 50 best public schools in the U.S.{{cite web |url=https://money.com/best-colleges/rankings/best-public-colleges/ |title=Best Public Colleges |magazine= Money |date=August 25, 2020}} Forbes in 2022 ranked UC Davis 23rd overall out of 650 colleges and universities in the U.S., 22nd among research universities, 4th among public university, and 11th for "Best Value".

The university has several distinguished graduate programs ranked in the top 10 in their fields by the United States National Research Council; most notable are its programs in agricultural economics, entomology, evolutionary biology, plant biology, and ecology. Additionally, the NRC placed more than a third of UC Davis graduate programs in the top 25% of their respective fields.{{cite web | title = UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies: A Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States | url = http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/nrc/NRC-UCD-Brief-Report.pdf | year = 2010 | publisher = University of California, Davis | access-date = June 7, 2011 | archive-date = October 4, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111004124438/http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/nrc/NRC-UCD-Brief-Report.pdf | url-status = dead }} In 2016, U.S. News & World Report rated UC Davis 2nd globally in Agricultural Sciences, 1st in Plant and Animal Science, 4th in Environment/Ecology, and 1st nationally in Veterinary Medicine, 3rd in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 7th (tie) in Biological and Agricultural Engineering, 9th in U.S. Colonial History, 15th in Comparative Politics, 19th in Biological Sciences, 20th in Earth Sciences and 21st in Psychology. The Economics department of UC Davis was also ranked 6th among public universities and 20th nationally according to the RePec (Research Papers in Economics) Rankings in 2011.{{cite web |url=http://econ.dss.ucdavis.edu/news/economics-department-ranked-number-6-among-public-u.s.-universities-and-ranked-in-the-top-20-among-public-and-private-u.s.-universities |title=Economics department ranked number 6 among public U.S. universities and ranked in the top 20 among public and private U.S. universities. — Economics at UCDavis |publisher=Econ.dss.ucdavis.edu |access-date=August 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205160335/http://econ.dss.ucdavis.edu/news/economics-department-ranked-number-6-among-public-u.s.-universities-and-ranked-in-the-top-20-among-public-and-private-u.s.-universities |archive-date=December 5, 2014 |url-status=dead }} In 2013, The Economist placed UC Davis Graduate School of Management in the top 8% accredited MBA programs in the United States (ranked 37th nationally and 65th globally).{{cite web |url=http://gsm.ucdavis.edu/economist-ucd-mba-number-1-recruiter-diversity |title=The Economist Ranks UC Davis MBA in the World's Top Tier – UC Davis Graduate School of Management |publisher=Gsm.ucdavis.edu |access-date=August 17, 2014 |archive-date=August 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819041736/http://gsm.ucdavis.edu/economist-ucd-mba-number-1-recruiter-diversity |url-status=dead }}

The Academic Ranking of World Universities placed UC Davis 40th nationally and 90th globally for 2019.{{cite web|url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2019.html|title=Academic Ranking of World Universities – 2019|publisher=ShanghaiRanking Consultancy|access-date=September 9, 2019|archive-date=August 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190815195442/http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2019.html|url-status=dead}} In its 2019 rankings, Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked it tied for 59th in the world.{{cite web |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2019/world-ranking#!/page/2/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats|title=World University Rankings 2019 |date=September 26, 2018 |publisher=THE Education Ltd.}} The QS World University Rankings ranked it tied for 104th globally for its 2020 ratings, with Veterinary Science ranked 2nd in the world.{{cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/university-california-davis#wurs|title=QS World University Rankings 2020: University of California, Davis |date=July 16, 2015 |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. |access-date=July 15, 2019}}

In 2016, Sierra Magazine ranked UC Davis 8th in its "Greenest Schools" in America list for campus sustainability and climate change efforts.{{cite web |url=http://sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-5-september-october/cool-schools-2016/top-20 |title=America's Greenest Universities – The Top 20 |last=Andrews |first=Avital |publisher=Sierra Club |date=September 6, 2016}}

Admission to UC Davis is rated as "more selective" by U.S. News & World Report.{{cite magazine |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/university-of-california-davis-1313 |title=U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings: University of California-Davis |year=2019 |access-date=July 5, 2019 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report}}

For Fall 2019, UC Davis received 78,093 freshmen applications; 30,358 were admitted (39.1%) and 5,957 enrolled. The average high school grade point average (GPA) of the enrolled freshmen was 4.13; the average SAT scores were between 610 and 710 for reading and 630–790 for math, and 28–34 for the ACT Composite score.

For 2021 incoming freshman class, UC Davis received a record of 105,850 applicants, an 11% increase from last year.{{Cite web |last=Easley |first=Julia Ann |date=January 28, 2021 |title=Record Number Apply for UC Davis Fall Entering Class |url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/record-number-apply-uc-davis-fall-entering-class |access-date=August 18, 2022 |website=UC Davis |language=en}} The admission rate for incoming freshman for the class of 2021 was 37.5%.{{Cite web |last=Peery |first=Tristan |date=October 28, 2020 |title=Admissions |url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/admissions |access-date=August 18, 2022 |website=www.ucdavis.edu/ |language=en}}

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UC Davis' libraries include the Peter J. Shields Library, the Physical Sciences & Engineering Library, the Carlson Health Sciences Library, and the Medical Center Library in Sacramento,{{Cite web |title=Buildings and Facilities |url=https://library.ucdavis.edu/exhibit/uc-davis-centennial/buildings-and-facilities/ |access-date=11 March 2025 |website=UC Davis Library}} which collectively contain more than 3 million volumes{{Cite web |title=UC Davis Library Centennial Timeline |url=https://library.ucdavis.edu/exhibit/uc-davis-centennial/timeline/ |access-date=11 March 2025 |website=UC Davis Library}} and offer a number of special collections and services. The Peter J. Shields Library has three different architectural styles due to various construction and extensions being added; it is the main library where students study on-campus, with a 24-hour reading room, open computer labs, and unique furniture.

The university is host to an Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program, the Forged Gold Battalion, with more than 50 cadets. With more than 60 years in existence, it currently commissions roughly 10 graduating seniors as second lieutenants every year.{{cite web | url=http://www-ucdmag.ucdavis.edu/win06/feature_4.html | title=Features of Volume 24, Number 4 | publisher = UC Davis Magazine Online | access-date=July 14, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070310190146/http://www-ucdmag.ucdavis.edu/win06/feature_4.html |archive-date = March 10, 2007}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/programs |title=UC Davis Grad Studies : Graduate Programs |publisher=University of California, Davis |access-date=September 8, 2014}} The programs educate over 4,000 students{{cite web |url=http://budget.ucdavis.edu/data-reports/documents/enrollment-reports/eenrsum_fcurr.pdf |title=UC Davis Student Population Headcount – Fall 2013 |publisher=University of California, Davis |access-date=September 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630034617/http://budget.ucdavis.edu/data-reports/documents/enrollment-reports/eenrsum_fcurr.pdf |archive-date=June 30, 2014 |url-status=dead }} from around the world.

UC Davis has the following graduate and professional schools, offering the broadest range of professional programs{{cite web |title=Professional Programs |url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/academics/professional-programs |website=UC Davis |publisher=Regents of the University of California |access-date=December 24, 2024}} of all campuses in the UC system (with their founding in parentheses):

• UC Davis Graduate Studies (1925)
• Graduate School of Management (1981)
• School of Education (2002)
• School of Law (1965)
• School of Medicine (1966)
• School of Veterinary Medicine (1948)
• Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing (2009)

Across the UC system, Los Angeles and Riverside are the next closest to Davis in terms of the breadth of their professional programs, but both campuses are missing a veterinary school, while Riverside is also missing a nursing school.

The University of California, Davis graduate division{{Cite web|url = http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/|title = UC Davis Graduate Studies}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/about-us/department-history |title=UC Davis Grad Studies : History of Graduate Studies |publisher=University of California, Davis|access-date=September 8, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/general_history/campuses/ucd/graddiv.html |title=University of California History Digital Archives |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |access-date=September 8, 2014}} 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.{{cite web|title=We Started as the University Farm|date=November 19, 2015|url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/about/history/|access-date=May 26, 2018}}

In 1961, autonomous graduate divisions and graduate councils were established on all University of California campuses to provide focused oversight of their graduate programs.

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."{{cite web |url=http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/programs/graduate-groups.html |title=UC Davis Grad Studies : Graduate Groups |publisher=University of California, Davis |access-date=September 8, 2014 |archive-date=July 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717225147/http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/programs/graduate-groups.html |url-status=dead }} UC Davis offers more graduate groups than any other campus in the UC system.{{Cite web|url=https://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/about-us/department-history|title=History of Graduate Studies {{!}} UC Davis Grad Studies|website=gradstudies.ucdavis.edu|access-date=October 15, 2016}}

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%.{{cite magazine|last1=Smith-Barrow|first1=Delece|title=10 Most Competitive Medical Schools|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/the-short-list-grad-school/articles/2016-03-17/10-medical-schools-with-the-lowest-acceptance-rates|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=August 5, 2016}}

{{main|List of University of California, Davis faculty}}

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, UC Davis was paid $1.4 million by Neuralink to use its facilities for experiments with brain implants in monkeys. Some monkeys were euthanized after developing infections. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has filed a public records lawsuit demanding access to the research.{{Cite web |date=September 26, 2022 |title=Physicians Committee's Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Company Neuralink Reveals Existence of Hundreds of Photos of Monkeys Used in Painful Experiments |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220926005606/en/Physicians-Committee%E2%80%99s-Lawsuit-Against-Elon-Musk-Company-Neuralink-Reveals-Existence-of-Hundreds-of-Photos-of-Monkeys-Used-in-Painful-Experiments |access-date=September 30, 2022 |website=www.businesswire.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Battle Erupts Over Alleged Grisly Photos of Brain-Hacked Neuralink Monkeys |url=https://futurism.com/uc-davis-neuralink-monkey-photos-lawsuit |access-date=September 30, 2022 |website=Futurism|date=September 28, 2022 }} The university claims that it complied with the California Public Records act, and that research protocols were thoroughly reviewed and approved by the campus's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).{{Cite web |last=Fell |first=Andy |date=February 9, 2022 |title=Statement on UC Davis and Neuralink |url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-and-neuralink |access-date=September 30, 2022 |website=UC Davis |language=en}}

UC Davis spent $788.8 million on research and development in fiscal year 2018, ranking it 30th in the nation.{{cite web |title=Table 20. Higher education R&D expenditures, ranked by FY 2018 R&D expenditures: FYs 2009–18 |url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2018/html/herd18-dt-tab020.html |website=ncsesdata.nsf.gov |publisher=National Science Foundation |access-date=July 19, 2020}}

Its faculty includes 23 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 14 members of the National Academy of Engineering, 30 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 17 members of the American Law Institute, 5 members of the Royal Society, 3 Pulitzer Prize winners, 1 Guggenheim Fellow, and 3 MacArthur Fellows.

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The campus supports a number of research centers and laboratories, including:

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• Advanced Highway Maintenance Construction Technology Research Laboratory
• BGI at UC Davis Joint Genome Center (in planning process){{cite web | url=http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10052 | title=BGI @ UC Davis Joint Genome Center| date=October 25, 2011}}
• 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 first university run energy efficiency center in the Nation).
• Western Institute for Food Safety and Security

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The Crocker Nuclear Laboratory on campus has had a nuclear accelerator since 1966.{{cite web|url=http://crocker.ucdavis.edu/ |title=Crocker Nuclear Laboratory |publisher=Crocker.ucdavis.edu |access-date=March 28, 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ucdavis.edu/spotlight/0706/crocker_nuclear_lab.html|title=Crocker Nuclear Lab at 40|last=Fell|first=Andy|publisher=UC Davis|access-date=December 2, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013224557/http://www.ucdavis.edu/spotlight/0706/crocker_nuclear_lab.html|archive-date=October 13, 2008|url-status=dead}} The laboratory is used by scientists and engineers from private industry, universities and government to research topics including nuclear physics, applied solid state physics, radiation effects, air quality, planetary geology and cosmogenics.{{cite web |url=http://crocker.ucdavis.edu/Site/Information/AboutCNL.aspx |title=About Crocker Nuclear Laboratory |publisher=Crocker.ucdavis.edu |access-date=March 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314143120/http://crocker.ucdavis.edu/Site/Information/AboutCNL.aspx |archive-date=March 14, 2011 |url-status=dead }} UC Davis is the only UC campus, besides Berkeley, that has a nuclear laboratory.

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.Nicolas Mokhoff, EE Times. "[http://eetimes.com/electronics-news/4218497/Agilent-and-UC-Davis-form-millimeter-research-center Agilent and UC Davis form millimeter research center]." August 3, 2011. Retrieved August 5, 2011.

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.{{cite web| url=http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/ | title=ASUCD Home Page | publisher=Associated Students of UC Davis | access-date=July 14, 2007}} 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{{cite web| url=http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/job | title=Jobs ASUCD Information Network | publisher=Associated Students of UC Davis | access-date=March 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123110928/http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/job |archive-date=January 23, 2009 }} annually across its many units.

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Picnic Day, UC Davis's annual Open House, is the largest student-run event in the United States. It attracts thousands of visitors each year with its many attractions. These include a parade, a dance competition by the university club dance groups called "Dance Dance Revolution", a magic show performed by the chemistry department, the Doxie Derby (dachshund races), film screenings, and a Battle of the Bands between the UC Davis Marching Band and other college bands including the Cal Band, the Stanford Band, and the Humboldt State University Marching Lumberjacks.

Another highlight of UC Davis is its student-run freeform radio station, KDVS. The station began operations on February 1, 1964, from the laundry room of the all-male dormitory Beckett Hall. The station soon gained a reputation by airing interviews with Angela Davis and a live call-in show with then California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1969. The station can now be heard on 90.3 FM and online at its website.{{cite web |url=http://www.kdvs.org/ |title=News |publisher=KDVS |access-date=March 28, 2012 |archive-date=March 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326022236/http://www.kdvs.org/ |url-status=dead }}

UC Davis has over 800 registered student organizations, ranging from political clubs to professional societies to language clubs.{{Cite web |last=Staab |first=Josh |date=2021-03-02 |title=Clubs and Communities |url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/campus-life/clubs-and-communities |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=www.ucdavis.edu/ |language=en}}

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.

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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.{{cite web|url=http://kdvs.org/ |title=News |publisher=KDVS |access-date=March 28, 2012}}
• The Entertainment Council,{{cite web|url=http://ec.ucdavis.edu/|title=ec.ucdavis.edu|access-date=September 19, 2014}} responsible for bringing famous musicians to campus and organizing student events.{{cite web|url=http://ec.ucdavis.edu |title=Entertainment Council |publisher=Ec.ucdavis.edu |access-date=June 8, 2010}}

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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.{{cite web | title=UC Davis Cycling homepage | url=http://www.ucdaviscycling.com/ | publisher=UC Davis | access-date=March 16, 2010 | archive-date=January 6, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106141209/http://ucdaviscycling.com/ | url-status=dead }} 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. 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, Unitrans, and its trademark London double decker buses. It has been in operation since 1968 and is believed to be the only general purpose (non-sightseeing) transit system in the U.S. to operate vintage double deck buses in daily service. The system is operated and managed entirely by students and offers fixed-route transportation throughout the city. There is also an inter-campus bus service{{cite web|url=https://facilities.ucdavis.edu/fleet-services/davis-berkeley-shuttle|title=Davis-Berkeley Shuttle|date=September 30, 2021|access-date=November 20, 2021}} that ferries back and forth between UC Davis and UC Berkeley twice daily, from Monday to Friday. Davis is also one of the busiest stations of the Capitol Corridor intercity railroad service operated by Amtrak between the Bay Area and Sacramento.

The central campus is bounded by freeways on two sides (Highway 113 and Interstate 80). All other UC campuses are either somewhat distant from the closest freeway or are directly adjacent to only one freeway. Two freeway exits are entirely within UCD's boundaries. One, off Highway 113, is signed "UC Davis / Hutchison Drive" and the other, off Interstate 80, is signed exclusively as "UC Davis." Despite the university's extensive bicycle infrastructure and public transportation service, easy freeway access coupled with increasing housing costs in the city of Davis has led to increased numbers of students commuting via automobile. Some students choose to live in the neighboring communities of Sacramento, Dixon or Woodland, and use their own cars or the county-wide Yolobus to get to UC Davis. In addition, a private charter bus that connected the Davis and Sacramento campuses was replaced in 2020 by the Causeway Connection bus service, in partnership with Yolobus and Sacramento Regional Transit.{{Cite web|last=Nejedlo|first=Grant|date=October 26, 2019|title=Causeway Connection: Electric Buses Connecting UC Davis|url=https://foa.ucdavis.edu/causewayconnection|access-date=July 20, 2020|website=Finance, Operations and Administration|language=en}} Other students also commute by motorcycle, but are also subject to similar parking rates as their four-wheeled counterparts.

UC Davis publishes a weekly student newspaper, The California Aggie. The Aggie was first published in 1915 as the Weekly Agricola after its approval by the Associated Student Executive Committee. At this point, UC Davis was considered the University Farm, an extension of UC Berkeley.{{cite web |url=http://www.ucdavis.edu/spotlight/1006/aggie_early_years.html |title=UC Davis: Spotlight: Student news since 1915 |access-date=May 12, 2008 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019195437/http://www.ucdavis.edu/spotlight/1006/aggie_early_years.html |archive-date=October 19, 2007 }}

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. 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|2016|October|lc=y}}.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article4980624.html|title=UC Davis newspaper struggles to resume print publication|access-date=October 3, 2016}}

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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.{{cite web |url=http://www.ucdifc.com/new-page-1/http://www.ucdavis-ifc.com/#!about/vstc7=page-3/vstc5=chapters |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809161425/http://www.ucdifc.com/new-page-1/http://www.ucdavis-ifc.com/#!about/vstc7=page-3/vstc5=chapters |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 9, 2020 |title=Interfraternity Council |publisher=Interfraternity Council at UC Davis |access-date=October 12, 2015 }} There are currently 11 sororities that are a part of the Panhellenic Council.{{cite web |url=http://www.ucdavispanhellenic.org/#!chapter-profiles/c10im |title=Panhellenic Council |publisher=ucdpanhellenic.com |access-date=January 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305170120/http://www.ucdavispanhellenic.org/#!chapter-profiles/c10im |archive-date=March 5, 2014 |url-status=usurped }}

The Phi chapter of Alpha Gamma Rho was locally established May 1, 1923, at UC Davis, making it the first continuously running national fraternity on campus. They started as the Kappa Tau fraternity, which was the first agricultural fraternity on campus. Many campus buildings are named after alumni of Alpha Gamma Rho such as Emil Mrak (Mrak Hall, Registrar's office), Orville Thompson (Thompson Hall, Segundo student housing), and Dean De Carli (the De Carli room, 2nd floor MU), Mel Olson Scoreboard (Aggie Stadium), and many more. The AGR Hall is an event space located inside the Buehler Alumni / Visitor Center and is commonly rented out as a conference room or banquet hall. There are both national and local fraternities and sororities at UCD with diverse backgrounds and histories.{{cite web | title=Greek Life | publisher=Student Programs & Activities Center, UC Davis | url=http://greeklife.ucdavis.edu/ | access-date=September 3, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016181521/http://greeklife.ucdavis.edu/ | archive-date=October 16, 2012 | url-status=dead }}

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The UC Davis Aggies (also referred to as Cal Aggies or Ags) compete in NCAA Division I sports league in the Big West Conference. For football, the Aggies compete in Division I FCS (formerly known as Division I-AA), and are members of the Big Sky Conference, granting UC Davis the distinction of being one of only three UC campuses to field a football team (Cal and UCLA being the other two). The Aggies are also members of the Big-12 in lacrosse, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in gymnastics, the America East Conference in field hockey, the Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association and Davis Men's Crew Club for rowing. Starting July 1, 2026, the Aggies will become members of the Mountain West Conference.{{Cite web |last=Nash |first=James Michael |date=2024-12-10 |title=UC Davis to Join Mountain West Conference |url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-join-mountain-west-conference |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=UC Davis |language=en}} This will not include UC Davis Football which will remain part of the Big Sky Conference and will continue to compete in the FCS division.

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=8243 | title=UC Davis Takes to NCAA Division I Playing Field | access-date=July 19, 2007 | publisher = UC Davis News & Information}}{{cite web | url=http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=8246 | title=UC Davis Timeline: The Road to Division I | access-date=July 19, 2007 | publisher=UC Davis News & Information | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805080336/http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=8246 | archive-date=August 5, 2012 }}

File:Stanford vs. UC Davis (14901555910).jpg lines up against Stanford in 2014]]The Aggie football team plays Sacramento State in the annual Causeway Classic for the Causeway Carriage. The team also plays Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the annual Battle for the Golden Horseshoe. UC Davis students gather at sporting events to rally as the Aggie Pack, the largest student-run school spirit organization in the United States.{{cite web | url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/new-turf-welcomes-eager-aggies | title=New Turf Welcomes Eager Aggies | date=August 12, 2015 }} The Aggie Pack cheers on the sports team along with the Spirit Squad to the music of the Cal Aggie Marching Band and its alumni band. Aggie Stadium is the home of the UC Davis football and lacrosse teams.

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.{{cite web|last=Rosenhall |first=Laurel |url=http://www.sacbee.com/2010/04/17/2685287/uc-davis-cuts-4-of-27-athletic.html |title=UC Davis cuts 4 of 27 athletic teams – Sacramento Sports – Kings, 49ers, Raiders, High School Sports | |publisher=Sacramento Bee/ Sacbee.com |date=April 17, 2010 |access-date=June 8, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100505151252/http://www.sacbee.com/2010/04/17/2685287/uc-davis-cuts-4-of-27-athletic.html |archive-date=May 5, 2010 }}

The official school colors are blue and gold. The blue is due to the UC's early connection to Yale{{cite web |url=http://www.ucdavis.edu/spotlight/0606/graduation_factoids.html |title=UC Davis Spotlight |access-date=July 14, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122046/http://ucdavis.edu/spotlight/0606/graduation_factoids.html |archive-date=October 15, 2007 }} and as a result is often referred to as "Yale Blue" (e.g., see).{{cite web |url=http://athletics.ucdavis.edu/FOOTBALL/General_Info/general.html |title=UC Davis Football – Aggie Football General Information |publisher=Athletics.ucdavis.edu |access-date=June 8, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020627060050/http://athletics.ucdavis.edu/FOOTBALL/General_Info/general.html |archive-date=June 27, 2002 |url-status=dead }} and{{cite web|url=http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/teams/page/CALDAV?&_1:col_1=1 |title=California Davis Aggies | NCAA Basketball at CBSSports.com |publisher=Sportsline.com |date=June 11, 2008 |access-date=June 8, 2010}} UCD's official blue, usually called "Aggie Blue", is Pantone 295,{{cite web| url=http://ucomm.ucdavis.edu/pubguide/logos_seals_marks.html | title=Publication Standards | publisher=University Communications | access-date=July 19, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070709153410/http://ucomm.ucdavis.edu/pubguide/logos_seals_marks.html |archive-date = July 9, 2007}} which is distinct from Yale Blue (approximately Pantone 289).{{cite web| url=http://www.yale.edu/printer/identity/yaleblue.html | title=Yale's Visual Identity: Yale Blue | publisher=Yale University | access-date=July 19, 2007}}

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The official school mascot is the mustang.

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 LEED-certified buildings across three of the five overarching LEED categories.{{cite web| title = UC Davis: Campus Progress in Green Building Ratings| publisher = UC Davis| url = http://sustainability.ucdavis.edu/progress/buildings/ratings.html| access-date = June 5, 2016 }} Examples include the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, the first brewery, winery or food-processing facility in the world to achieve Platinum-level certification and the Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) at Lake Tahoe, one of only five laboratories in the world to achieve Platinum-level certification.{{cite web| title = UC Davis: Find Green Buildings| publisher = UC Davis| url = http://sustainability.ucdavis.edu/progress/buildings/map.html| access-date = February 28, 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110505181220/http://sustainability.ucdavis.edu/progress/buildings/map.html| archive-date = May 5, 2011| url-status = dead}} It developed UC Davis West Village as a "zero net energy" community.{{cite web| title = UC Davis West Village| publisher = UC Davis| url = http://westvillage.ucdavis.edu/|access-date = September 28, 2010 }}

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.{{cite web| title = UC Davis receives 2 best practices awards at sustainability conference| publisher = Dateline, UC Davis| url = http://dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.lasso?id=11639| access-date = September 28, 2010 }}

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UC Davis harvests olives from the old trees on campus to produce olive oil{{cite web| title = UC Davis olive oil| publisher = Olive Oil Center, UC Davis| url = http://oliveoil.ucdavis.edu/| access-date = September 28, 2010| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070601164339/http://oliveoil.ucdavis.edu/| archive-date = June 1, 2007| url-status = dead}} and table olives for use in campus dining rooms.{{cite web| title = UC Davis table olives| publisher = Campus Grown, UC Davis| url = http://campusgrown.ucdavis.edu/olives/table_olives.html| access-date = January 6, 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110813025629/http://campusgrown.ucdavis.edu/olives/table_olives.html| archive-date = August 13, 2011| url-status = dead}} It has designed landscaping with drought-tolerant trees and other plants.{{cite web| title = UC Davis: Water and Landscaping| publisher = UC Davis| url = http://sustainability.ucdavis.edu/progress/water/index.html

| access-date = September 28, 2010 }} The campus operates its own landfill, where it converts landfill (methane) gas to energy.{{cite web| title = UC Davis: Energy Systems| publisher = UC Davis| url = http://sustainability.ucdavis.edu/progress/energy/index.html| access-date = September 28, 2010 }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.greenreportcard.org/report-card-2011/schools/university-of-california-davis |title=University of California–Davis – Green Report Card 2011 |publisher=Sustainable Endowments Institute |access-date=October 11, 2015 |archive-date=April 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423140752/http://www.greenreportcard.org/report-card-2011/schools/university-of-california-davis |url-status=dead }}

In February 2014, UC Davis and Diamond Developers formed a joint venture to create a sustainable city in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.{{Cite news|url = http://gulfnewsjournal.com/stories/510547487-diamond-developers-u-s-university-extend-sustainability-effort|title = Diamond Developers, U.S. university extend sustainability effort|last = Daw|first = Daniel|date = June 1, 2015|work = Gulf News Journal|access-date = June 4, 2015}} 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.{{Cite web|url = http://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/sustainability-research-training-program/the-sustainable-city-dubai|title = The Sustainable City-Dubai|access-date = June 4, 2015|website = Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis|last = Joseph|first = Suad|archive-date = June 4, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150604024417/http://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/sustainability-research-training-program/the-sustainable-city-dubai|url-status = dead}} In May 2015, UC Davis and Diamond expanded the joint venture to include sustainability professional training program.

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.{{cite news| title=Have some SWAG, bring your own BAG| url=http://www.theaggie.org/2011/11/30/%E2%80%9Chave-some-swag-bring-your-own-bag%E2%80%9D/| newspaper=The California Aggie| access-date=March 22, 2012| archive-date=May 22, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522084445/http://www.theaggie.org/2011/11/30/%e2%80%9chave-some-swag-bring-your-own-bag%e2%80%9d/| url-status=dead}}

UC Davis is also home to the Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI),{{cite web |url=http://asi.ucdavis.edu/index.htm |title=Welcome — ASI |publisher=Asi.ucdavis.edu |access-date=August 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003171205/http://asi.ucdavis.edu/index.htm |archive-date=October 3, 2009 |url-status=dead }} 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),{{cite web |url=http://ces.ucdavis.edu/ggcs3 |title=GGCS 3 at UC Davis |publisher=Ces.ucdavis.edu |access-date=August 17, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140710162353/http://ces.ucdavis.edu/ggcs3/ |archive-date=July 10, 2014 }} 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.

The following persons had led the UC Davis campus as chancellor since 1958:{{cite web |url=https://leadership.ucdavis.edu/history-uc-davis-leadership |title=History of UC Davis Leadership |publisher=UC Davis}}

{{Main list|List of University of California, Davis alumni}}

UC Davis currently has over 260,000 living alumni.{{cite web |title=About UC Davis and our Alumni |url = http://alumni.ucdavis.edu/about-us/alumni-stats/ |publisher=UC Davis |access-date=August 30, 2016 }} Notable alumni of UC Davis include two astronauts; scientist Charles Moen Rice, 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate and Katherine Jungjohann; US Treasurer Anna Escobedo Cabral; Chevron CEO John S. Watson; entrepreneur Jason Lucash; and actor Matthew Moy. Notable faculty include two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor and painter Wayne Thiebaud.

File:Charles M. Rice.jpg|Charles M. Rice, 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

File:Anna Escobedo Cabral, official Treasury photo.jpg|Anna Escobedo Cabral, US Treasurer

File:TaniCantilSakauye.jpg|Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice of California

File:Ann Veneman.jpg|Ann Veneman, former United States Secretary of Agriculture

File:DeAnne Julius - Chatham House Prize 2010 crop.jpg|DeAnne Julius, American-British economist

File:Sir CK Chow.jpg|Sir Chow Chung-kong, chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

File:John S. Watson, June 2010.jpeg|John S. Watson, CEO of Chevron

File:Darrell Steinberg 2014 CADEM Convention.jpg|Darrell Steinberg, mayor of Sacramento

File:London Breed.jpg|London Breed, mayor of San Francisco

File:Kate Tsui Tsz-shan.jpg|Kate Tsui, Hong Kong actress

File:Hasan Minhaj on Neal Brennan uploaded James Tamim (cropped).png|Hasan Minhaj, actor and comedian

File:DJ Shadow tim festival.jpg|DJ Shadow, music producer and DJ

File:James brooks portrait 09 o.jpg|James F. Brooks, historian and professor

File:Doug Girod (cropped).jpg|Doug Girod, chancellor of the University of Kansas

File:Tracy Dyson portrait 2023.jpg|Tracy Caldwell Dyson, chemist and NASA astronaut

File:Stephen Robinson NASA STS114.jpg|Stephen Robinson, NASA astronaut

File:Daniel Descalso on June 29, 2011.jpg|Daniel Descalso, infielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks

File:Colton Schmidt.JPG|Colton Schmidt, American football punter

File:Urijah Faber 24 July 2009.jpg|Urijah Faber, mixed martial artist

File:MartinYan-YanCanCook.jpg|Martin Yan, cooking show host and food writer

File:Markus and McFeely at the 2018 Austin Film Festival.jpg|Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, screenwriters and producers

File:Whitten Portrait Head wiki.jpg|Richard Whitten, visual artist

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• C.N. Gorman Museum
• Justice Waits
• Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
• Mondavi Center
• The Pavilion (UC Davis)
• Jerry Hinsdale

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