Near the end of January, the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden’s Learning by Leading program hosted their first event to harvest the student-planted, educational-use fields west of the Student Farm. Thirty volunteers collected and donated 3,235 lbs of produce – roughly the weight of an average car or a Beluga whale!
The first day of work for the average temporary employee can be an exciting experience. Arriving in a quick-paced environment with new faces, learning to use a variety of programs and tools, and catching up on current projects with the added possibility of changing positions at a moment’s notice is a thrilling challenge.
The Center for the Built Environment (CBE) honored the UC Davis Student Community Center with the 2015 Livable Buildings Award for its design to value diversity and provide comfortable social and study space.
It’s early October, and while it’s still warm and sunny outside, you’re sitting at your desk wrapped up in a sweater, frantically typing to keep warm. The office thermostat says the room is within campus standards of 68 – 78 degrees, but you feel like there has to be an A/C issue, and you’d like someone to know about it.
A unique partnership between UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, and Denmark’s Aalborg and Technical universities is helping find common ways to solve today’s energy challenges.
