History

Retiring faculty honored for 2023

Five retired faculty from the Department of Plant Sciences will be honored for their outstanding scholarship, the global impact of their contributions to their fields, their service, their expansive teaching and their generous mentoring. A dinner will be held at 6 p.m. Friday, April 28, in the UC Davis Conference Center.

Department Chair Gail Taylor will host the festivities. Current faculty will introduce the honorees.

John Yoder

Nature Love Stories, in Homage to Valentine’s Day

All week, leading to Valentine’s Day, read a “first love” nature story, by campus scientists. This story was written by Professor Andrew Latimer, Department of Plant Sciences, who studies how plants respond to change, including fire, drought and climate change.