There will be a Celebration of Life for Professor Emerita Ericka Barrett and her husband Jim Buhlert, a widely-respected Pilot Plant Manager in the department, on Saturday August 20, 11 AM at the Putah Creek Lodge on the UC Davis campus.
Members from the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering attended the 2016 ASABE Annual International Meeting in Orlando, Florida during July.
IFT was good to UC Davis this year, with awards for 3 faculty. Each of them was recognized at the Institute of Food Technologists' annual meeting on July 16, 2016.
The article is an edited excerpt of Ed Yong's new book, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life. The excerpt focuses on the milk and lactation research affiliated with the Foods for Health Institute.
V&E Extension held a seminar and field day at the UC Davis campus called "Current Developments in Vineyard Mechanization and Precision Viticulture" on April 22, 2016. Some of the underlying themes included labor issues and the looming increases in California's minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2022.
Two very successful on-campus workshops were held at the UC Davis Conference Center recently, addressing themes of Managing Oxygen for Wine Composition and Stability and Practical Color and Tannin Management Strategies.