The 2023 USDA Faculty Exchange Program (FEP) held at UC Davis is forging a new path for exchanging ideas and collaboration in research, clinical sciences, and teaching.
The Civic Urban Farmer Program recently received a 2023 Specialty Crop Block grant from the CA Department of Food and Agriculture to support its continuation.
An international team of researchers, including Professor Titus Brown, are joining forces in a new research project to reduce the need for antibiotics in pig production by improving intestinal resilience in developing piglets.
A strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza is currently infecting and killing wild birds and domestic birds in at least 29 states across the United States. Dr. Maurice Pitesky advises commercial and backyard chicken owners to take precautions.
UC Davis was recently awarded a 4-year, $1 million grant to leverage social media, disease modeling and extension to improve preparation and response to virulent Newcastle Disease.
UC Davis is part of a national interdisciplinary team awarded a prestigious Convergence Accelerator Award from the National Science Foundation to expand the current functionality of the Disease BioPortal, a user-friendly platform to safeguard animal health and prevent infectious disease outbreaks on farms.
Californians who raise chickens and game fowl are invited to participate in a study to help the University of California more effectively deliver poultry health information and prevent the spread of diseases such as avian influenza.
The Western Institute for Food Safety and Security is collaborating on a new course designed to educate veterinarians in treating diseases of honey bees through an award from the USDA Specialty Crop Multi-State Program.
The Western Center for Food Safety—a joint effort between UC Davis’ School of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences—will join several other California organizations to launch a multi-year study to improve food safety through enhanced understanding of the ecology of human pathogens in the environment that may cause food-borne illness outbreaks, according to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration announcement today.
