Photo Galleries

Children create beautiful art with the help of some colorful maggots at this 2025 Picnic Day event. (Jael Mackendorf/UC Davis)

April in CA&ES

Agricultural and Environmental Technology major Emily Chung waters plants in the Pat J. Brown lab. (Elyssa Lieu/UC Davis)

CA&ES in March 2025

Dean Dillard and several faculty, students and staff welcomed visitors and prospective students to the CA&ES booth at World Ag Expo in Tulare, California. (Ashley Chum/UCDavis)

CA&ES in February 2024

A group of people, wearing professional clothes, stand together.

Dean Dillard

A group of people smiling in a bus together.

Service Trips

Students of Viticulture and Enology work on making wine by pressing grapes for fermentation for class

VandE Research

Ermias Kebreab and Matthias Hess stand together in the cow dairy facilities. They won the TED Audacious award with UC Berkeley and UCSF for their work with dairy cows.

TED Audacious Project

UC Davis Field Day was buzzing with energy as FFA and 4-H students competed, connected and celebrated all things agriculture. (Stephanie Perla/UC Davis)

CA&ES Highlight from 2024

Celebrating the announcement, from left: Shaun Keister, vice chancellor of Development and Alumni Relations; Chancellor Gary S. May; Stewart Resnick; Lynda Resnick; Deysi Alvaro Ceja, a third-year plant sciences major; Christopher Simmons, professor and chair of the Department of Food Science and Technology; Helene Dillard, dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and Jim Carroll, university architect and associate vice chancellor of Design and Construction Management. (Stefanie Keena

Resnick Agricultural Innovation Center

A person standing beside a lectern.

November in CA&ES

Dean Helene Dillard with this year’s Award of Distinction honorees during a ceremony to recognize their lasting impact on the college. Photo by: Leroy Yau, UC Davis

CA&ES in October

Hands preparing tomatoes to make canned tomato sauce.

Food and Wine

A person is handling the drone, possibly preparing it for flight in an outdoor setting

CA&ES in September

UC Davis graduate students Kamryn Kubose and Aniket Banginwar work on the General Plan Database Mapping tool they helped develop and troubleshoot. (Courtesy, UC Davis Center for Regional Change)

Areas of Focus

A cow being judged at Field Day.

Field Day

A collage of people accepting advising awards.

CA&ES in June 2024

Jessica Colvin, continuing lecturer in landscape architecture, gave a tour of the Robbins Hall landscape sharing insights and ideas during a recent NatureRX Landscape Tour and Tea event.

CA&ES in May

A female student holds a newborn goat.

CA&ES in April

A redbud tree bursts with pink blooms at the Arboretum.

CA&ES in March

Students smile while holding plates of pizza.

February in CA&ES

Professor John Eadie holds a duckling while collecting data for his wood duck research.

AES Photo Gallery

UC Davis Assistant Professor Mason Earles testified before Congress as an expert witness in Washington D.C. on the importance of AI technology in agriculture.

2023: A Year in Review

The sun sets over the CA&ES greenhouses.

November in CA&ES

Peer nutrition counselors with Healthy Aggies; (L-R) Yiman Li, Amare Tolosa Sabillo, Lorelei Kilmer and Wendy Liang.

Healthy Aggies

Dean Helene Dillard enjoys her visit at the Gorman Museum of Native American Art.

October in CA&ES

Dean Dillard welcomes incoming families during Aggie Moove-In.

September in CA&ES

Alison Ke from high up in a tree in Ecuador. (Alison Ke /UC Davis)

Nest boxes in the in Neotropics

The golden shovels were out to ceremoniously break ground on a new greenhouse at UC Davis! The $5.25 million project will safeguard an important grapevine collection from red blotch disease and other pathogens.

CA&ES in June

Samuel Sandoval Solis and students from his "Water Science and Management" class visit Stebbins Cold Water Reserve on a field trip to better understand the water cycle and gain hands-on experience using different tools.

May in CA&ES

A group having their photo taken at the Cole Facility during Picnic Day on April 15, 2023.

Picnic Day

Students at the CA&ES booth in Tulare, CA during World Ag Expo.

February CA&ES Events

A group of students stand together on the steps on a building at UC Davis.

MANRRS

Aggie Jumpstart staff leader high fives a student.

UAP Staff

Tomatoes harvested at Russell Ranch.

Tomatoes

People gather at the ribbon cutting for the newly-redesigned bus stop.

Students Redesign Vallejo Bus Stop

CA&ES students give back to the community and gain experience as interns at a clinic in Knights Landing.

Impacting Social Justice

Ken Early helped harvest produce at the Student Farm on March 19. He and other essential workers at the farm followed safe practices such as wearing masks, washing hands and keeping at least six feet apart. The Student Farm continued to harvest crops and to make them available to the community.

Feeding the World

Staff Research Associate Bernardo Niño checks on bee colonies March 19 at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road. It is the largest and most comprehensive state-supported apiculture facility in North America and the only one in California.

Studying Climate Change

Students at commencement.

Diversity in Action

We kicked the New Year off with the official opening of our Noel-Nordfelt Animal Science Goat Dairy and Creamery on January 25. The facility is helping students model common animal husbandry issues facing production goat dairies. It also provides a space to process milk and to make cheese with state-of-the-art equipment.

A Year in Review

Professor Isaya Kisekka talks (l to r) Aya Suzuki, a biosystems engineering major; Mackenzie Gulliams, a civil and environmental engineering major, and Marcoluis Garcia, hydrology major, about getting measurement of soil moister content during a new agricultural research project on crop irrigation undeground with a modern computerized irrigation/fertilization system at the Campbell Tract.

CEs in Action

Students at a field trip in Winters.

Experiential Learning

FFA Contestants in Uniform

Field Day 2020

Students at the UC Davis Student Farm.

Discover CA&ES

Transfer students at a UAP summer event.

Aggie Jumpstart

People at a tour of Clover

Cows, creameries and the sea

People in a field

Produce, food safety, wine and labor

After a tour of the Farmer’s Rice Cooperative Rice Mill in West Sacramento, the day concluded with a networking dinner at Mulvaney’s B&L in Sacramento hosted by the California Rice Commission. Dean Helene Dillard and CRC President Tim Johnson were joined by the nine new faculty and 25 guests including Secretary Karen Ross of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

Event Photos

Students walking across the graduation stage.

2018 A Year in Review

Students Mia Kawamoto and Amy Bump sift soil together during a class at Russell Ranch. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis)

UC Davis digs into soil health