While harvest is a busy time of year for viticulturists and winemakers/enologists, it is also a busy time for the extension coordination committee in the Department of Viticulture and Enology.  We are busy planning and organizing educational extension programs for the coming year.  The first On Campus program in the fall will honor Roger Boulton, a long-time viticulture and enology (and chemical engineering) professor, who retired in June 2019.  Because of several COVID surges, we have postponed this program more times than we’d like to admit, so we are very excited that it i

The UCD V and E Extension team hosted 10 events between February 10, 2022, through May 23, 2022.  We brought UC Davis V&E On the Road Programs to Santa Barbara (February 22, 2022), Santa Cruz (March 24, 2022), and virtually to the Central Sierra (Foothills) on March 31, 2022.

CBS Mornings did an interview with FST's Luxin Wang, BAE's Gang Sun and Jiahan Zou on their reusable, compostable "jelly ice" research development, which was shared nationally to their 2.26 million subscribers, all potential viewers of the video.  Embedded below with direct link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPkeKpb1JhA (YouTube, 4:24 min)