A Food and Wine Legacy

A quarter-century after its founding, the Robert Mondavi Institute is hailed as “people and place coming together to do something amazing” in wine, brewing and food sciences. The complex also propelled UC Davis into a green building revolution and included the first winery in the world certified as LEED Platinum.

A Fascination With Fish

Peter Wainwright, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, studies the unique ways fish feed. While mammals have one jawbone that moves, fish have two dozen, he says: “That means the potential for evolutionary diversification is crazy.” Wainwright is this month’s subject for Dateline’s Among the Academies series.

The Value of Giving Back

Deborah Austin ’87 is starting a two-year term as president of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association Board of Directors and sat down with Chancellor Gary S. May to talk about the value of mentorship, new initiatives to keep Aggies engaged with their alma mater after graduation and more.

Space Show Hits the Road

Lloyd Knox and Markus Luty, both professors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, are bringing a free event series to public places to teach about the cosmos. Their goal: to convince people to stop and marvel at areas of the universe they may take for granted, like sunlight.