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Philanthropy news
05.9.2013 Veteran Yolo County educators honored for support of former foster youth
Longtime Yolo County educators and UC Davis alumni Sandi Redenbach and Ken Gelatt are the 2013 winners of the Charles J. Soderquist Award, an honor bestowed by the university in recognition of exceptional volunteer leadership and philanthropy benefiting the campus community. Created in 2005 by the…
05.1.2013 UC Davis selects architectural team to create an art museum for the 21st century
The new Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, will be created by a team of architects and builders intent on redefining the university museum and fostering a new conversation in the arts. UC Davis today announced that it has selected an emerging…
03.21.2013 New endowment provides additional support for study abroad opportunities
Generations of UC Davis students will have more opportunity to study abroad as part of their UC Davis education, thanks to a recent $1 million gift from Ann E. Pitzer, a UC Davis alumna and current member of the UC Davis Foundation Board of Trustees. Pitzer, a La Jolla, Calif., resident, made the…
03.15.2013 Egghead tour offers original music and art
Members of the St. Louis Symphony will perform original works composed by University of California, Davis, music faculty today as they stroll among the iconic “Egghead” sculptures on campus. The virtual progressive dinner of music and art will also illustrate the university’s…
03.14.2013 First 5K Stride for Aggie Pride to support scholarships
UC Davis is hosting its first 5K Stride for Aggie Pride, on Sunday, April 7, to raise money for scholarships and emergency funding for students in need. All proceeds from the 3.1-mile run/walk event, which is being led by UC Davis students, will go toward student scholarships offered through the…
03.8.2013 Rock to Renaissance musicologist gets teaching prize
Peek inside the office of Christopher Reynolds, UC Davis professor, musicologist, choral singer and son of a choir conductor, and a visitor sees the expected — rows and rows of books, stacks of sheet music and a sketch of Beethoven on the wall. But take a few more steps inside and you bump…
02.26.2013 UC Davis' We Are Aggie Pride celebrates first international Student Engagement and Philanthropy Day
When Christine Kim’s family lost its home in Roseville due to financial hardship, the UC Davis senior spent the weekend packing up her childhood belongings — and then took off for a UC Davis basketball game on campus where she volunteered for We are Aggie Pride, a student-run group that…
02.15.2013 International wine tastings to support underserved students
The Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science on Feb. 22 will uncork a three-part international wine tasting and travelogue series at the University of California, Davis. The event will benefit historically underserved students studying viticulture, enology, food science and other related…
01.31.2013 Internationally acclaimed ‘evangelist of entrepreneurship’ to teach at UC Davis
Carl Schramm, one of the world’s leading experts on entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth, is coming to teach at the University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management, thanks to a recent gift from the Arthur & Carlyse Ciocca Charitable Foundation. Schramm, former…
01.8.2013 T.J. Rodgers completes world's first wireless wine fermentation network for UC Davis winery
In another advance for innovative winemaking, students and faculty at the University of California, Davis, are now processing wine with the world’s first wireless fermentation system, thanks to a recently completed $3.5 million network designed, built and donated to the university by Silicon…
12.3.2012 UC Davis Foundation Board raises $1 million-plus for students
The University of California, Davis, today announced the creation of a $1 million-plus matching fund to encourage gifts to help UC Davis students. Under the leadership of UC Davis Foundation Board Chair Bruce Edwards ’60, current and emeriti members of the foundation board and UC Davis…
11.30.2012 UC Davis chooses teams to compete for art museum design and construction
A half century ago, a team of young artists, including Wayne Thiebaud and Robert Arneson, arrived at the University of California, Davis, to help build a new art department — and changed the art world. The university is honoring that legacy today by tapping three innovative…