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African American
and African Studies
Agricultural and Resource Economics
Agricultural Education and Development
Agricultural Engineering
Agricultural Practices
Agronomy and Range Science
American Studies
Anatomy
Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology
Anesthesiology
Animal Husbandry
Animal Physiology
Animal Science
Anthropology
Applied Science
Art
Asian American Studies
Atmospheric Science
Avian Medicine
African American and African Studies
During the spring of 1969 some 50 African-American
students, accompanied by psychology professor Ed Turner, the sole
African-American faculty member on campus, marched on the chancellor's
office to demand, in part, creation of a Department of African-American
Studies. The negotiations begun by Chancellor Emil Mrak were continued
under Chancellor James Meyer. It was decided to create an African-American
Studies Program, and FTE were set aside for faculty with expertise
in the black experience. Ed Turner, appointed Director of Black
Studies, consulted with a newly formed curriculum development committee
consisting of black political sociologist and Berkeley graduate
student Hardy Frye, black cultural geographer and UCD lecturer Charles
C. Irby, and white political sociologist John Leggett. Their report
"Whither Black Studies," produced in August 1971, became
the program's planning document.
African-American studies first appeared in the
UC Davis course catalog in 1971, when historian Roland Marchand
began teaching a course in Black History. Prior to this, more general
courses covering the black experience were taught within the psychology,
sociology, history, or geography curricula. The program development
committee included Turner, Bruce Glassburner (economics), William
Lotter (physical education), and three Black Student Union representatives.
Program planners decided to hire faculty capable
of teaching in traditional departments as well as in the African-American
Studies program. James Fisher, jointly appointed to history, was
the first appointee. Albert McNeil (music) and Gus Davis (education)
received other joint appointments. Carl Jorgenson, appointed to
sociology and psychology and African-American Studies in 1971, has
since served a term as director of the program and nearly continuous
member of the program committee.
For several years academicians questioned
the legitimacy of both ethnic studies in general and the specific
programs at. UC Davis, including African-American Studies. The program
had only one or two ladder faculty at a time, none of them tenured,
and the research and teaching demands on these faculty were compounded
with a high demand for advising both undergraduates and the administration
on attempts to ameliorate conditions on campus for persons of color.
These problems, along with conflict within the department over direction,
led to repeated resignations of faculty and one failure to achieve
tenure. The resultant instability in the program continued until
the late 1980s, when the administration and the Academic Senate
helped strengthen all the ethnic studies programs and reduce faculty
turnover by voting to allocate six FTE to each unit. Since then,
the African-American Studies Program's commitment to excellence
in teaching, service, and research has gradually increased its academic
legitimacy to the point where it is now fully accepted within the
UC Davis community. Its faculty is stable and has advanced at normal
rates. source
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Agricultural and Resource
Economics
Agricultural economics developed as a discipline
at Berkeley during the 1920s out of earlier studies in farm management.
When Bank of America founder Amadeo Giannini endowed the Giannini
Foundation at Berkeley in 1928, the study of agricultural economics
at the University of California received a major boost.
At Davis, the first undergraduate instruction
in the field began in 1929 with courses in production economics
and farm management. By 1952 a full set of courses for the B.S.
degree was in place. The M.S. degree was approved in Agricultural
Business Management in 1958, followed by a Ph.D. program in 1964.
In 1966 the Department of Agricultural Economics
at Davis became independent from Berkeley. At that time the department
included 16 teaching-research and extension faculty and about 100
undergraduate and 35 graduate majors. Under the guidance of early
chairs Ben C. French, Herb Snyder, and Hal Carter, the department
grew quickly in both size and stature. Teaching and research initially
emphasized the production and marketing of agricultural products
and the economic analysis of land and water use, but over the years
new fields came into focus, including econometrics, operations research,
demand analysis, agricultural labor, international trade, economic
development, environmental economics, and agricultural policy. The
department pioneered in the application of quantitative analysis
to agricultural and resource economic problems, and expertise in
these difficult subjects has been a trademark of Davis Ph.D. graduates.
Davis agricultural economics faculty have earned
national and international recognition. Between 1979 and 1999 nine
faculty members were selected as fellows by the American Agricultural
Economics Association: Varden Fuller, Harold O. Carter, Ben C. French,
Oscar O. Burt, Cordon A. King, Sylvia Lane, Alex McCalla, Warren
Johnston, and Daniel Sumner. Numerous faculty and Ph.D. students
have won AAEA research awards, and several have served in prominent
positions in UC administration, including C. O. McCorkle, Elmer
Learn, Lawrence Shephard, Alex McCalla, Herbert Snyder, and Harold
Carter.
The department administers a popular undergraduate
program in managerial economics, which consistently ranks in the
top five nationally. This program grew to nearly 900 students by
1999. In addition, about 75 graduate students currently pursue M.S.
or Ph.D. degrees in a graduate program that has attained international
prominence. A recent survey ranked the Davis doctoral program second
nationally, the master's program third. UC Davis was also ranked
first in production economics; second in marketing, price analysis,
and trade; second in agricultural policy; and fifth in resource
economics--making it the only school to attain top five rankings
in four or more specialized fields. Davis Ph.D. graduates have been
placed in every prestigious land-grant university in the United
States and have won more awards for outstanding dissertations from
the AAEA than any other department. source
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Agricultural Education
and Development
The first Division of Agricultural Education
took form in 1909-10 when Ernest B. Babcock, then an instructor
in botany, persuaded Dean Edward J. Wickson that the rapidly increasing
state-wide interest in nature study, school gardens, and elementary
agriculture in the public schools was creating a demand for more
and better trained teachers and that the College of Agriculture
should try to help meet that need. By 1911, Babcock had been made
head of the newly created Division of Agricultural Education.
With the passage of the Smith Hughes Act in 1917
(establishing goals for vocational and teacher education as an important
function in land grant colleges), Professor Sam H. Dadisman was
transferred from Berkeley to assume responsibility for teacher education
work at Davis. There was a curriculum in agricultural education
in the early 1920s and the department chairman (Frederick L. Griffin
during most of this period) divided his activities between the Berkeley
and Davis campuses. Acting in various teacher education capacities
during this time were Professors William G. Hummel, Dadisman, and
Benjamin R. Crandall.
The department continued under Henry M. Skidmore
and in 1926, practice teaching was instituted in cooperation with
the California State Department of Education under the "cadet system,"
in which student teachers were placed full-time in high school centers
and were paid a small stipend. This was a major development in teacher
education and the forerunner of the "intern system" that later came
into vogue. Misunderstandings between the California State Department
of Education and the University occurred, with the result that cooperative
teacher education relationships were severed in 1929 and for a short
period the department ceased to exist.
In 1932, this relationship was again renewed when
Sidney S. Sutherland joined the staff and also assumed the title
of State Teacher Trainer with the Bureau of Agricultural Education.
It was not until 1938 that a curriculum in agricultural education
was established under the Department of Education in the College
of Agriculture. From that date until 1949, the primary responsibility
of the department was the preparation of teachers of vocational
agriculture. In 1946, a graduate program leading to the master of
education degree, with a specialization in agriculture, was added
to the offerings of the department.
The Department of Education was divided in 1960--the
Department of Agricultural Education, administered by the College
of Agriculture, and the Department of Education in the College of
Letters and Science. In 1965, the function of the Department of
Agricultural Education was expanded to include research work, especially
in adult education and human resources. As such, its name was changed
to Department of Agricultural Education and Development and Orville
E. Thompson became chairman. As part of this change, the department
joined the Division of Consumer and Family Science (which later
Human and Community Development) under the direction of an associate
dean. source
See also Human
and Community Development and Division
of Education.
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Agricultural Practices
The Agricultural Practices division was conceived
in 1948 when California cattleman Fred H. Bixby made a $250,000
grant to the College of Agriculture to establish a program which
would enable students to acquire "field experience" in their majors.
As a result of this gift, 20 students were placed
on farms and ranches during the summer of 1950. The experience acquired
that first year emphasized the need to provide students with basic
instruction in the operation and maintenance of the mechanized equipment
essential to California agriculture, and led to the development
in 1951 of an on-campus field laboratory curriculum.
Participation in this non-credit undergraduate
program was voluntary, though students seeking summer placement
were encouraged to enroll for one semester. Laboratory instruction
related primarily to the maintenance and proper use of agricultural
machinery, the need for this skill being evident in a large majority
of placements.
Response to the summer placement and laboratory
programs by students, farmers and ranchers, and agricultural industry
was excellent. A majority of the cooperators continued to employ
students for successive years, and many did so since the program's
inception.
Initially, emphasis was directed to providing
those skills associated with production agriculture; i.e., farming
and ranching. By 1968, practice included placing students in the
associated industries such as food processing, marketing and distribution,
product development and conservation.
Enrollment in the summer placement program averaged
about 120 per year in the 1960s, with 100 to 300 students enrolled
in the machinery laboratory.
The benefits which accrued to students participating
in the program were substantial. While the earnings received from
summer employment were beneficial, money was secondary in importance
to the value of the experiences in directing students to careers
for which they were best suited. This counseling function was likely
the most important aspect of the division's activities.
The placement, counseling, and instructional responsibilities
of the division required the services of three full-time staff members
in the mid-1960s. source
Following the reorganization of the College of
Agriculture in the late 1960s, the Department of Agricultural Practices
no longer existed as such.
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Agronomy and Range Science
In 1904 a Division of Experimental Agronomy
was established in the College of Agriculture of the University
of California, Berkeley. From the beginning, the division's major
emphasis was on cereal crops. By 1906 it was clear that a Berkeley
location for experimental work could not meet requirements of the
agriculture that was developing in the Central Valley, and the division
was largely shifted to the University Farm. The two-year nondegree
program included practical work in agronomy, while experiment station
research focused on developing improved cereal and range crop varieties.
In the early years of the division, the faculty
was largely organized by crop or commodity basis, each member having
a specialization such as plant breeding, crop physiology, or soil
fertility. There were active programs on wheat, barley, ryegrass,
white and berseem clovers, all classes of dry beans, safflower and
other oil crops, cotton, sugar beets, range improvement, seed certification,
and foundation seed. Plant breeding was a major part of the department's
research, with an active program in cereals, forage and food legumes,
and oil crops.
The division of agronomy, like the entire teaching
program at Davis, was rebuilt after World War II. Immediately after
the war, the faculty in the renamed Department of Agronomy grew
rapidly in number, forming a young, energetic group similar in age.
(As a direct consequence, the department experienced many retirements
in the mid- to late 1980s, followed by many new appointments.)
In 1968, the name of the department was changed
to Agronomy and Range Science to reflect the inclusion of a program
devoted to the management of rangelands, which constitute a significant
portion of the state. Over the years, departmental faculty and staff
became active in other areas as well, including Integrated Pest
Management and the Plant Growth Laboratory. More recently, members
of the department have played a significant role in the development
of crossdepartmental programs such as the Genetic Resources Conservation
Program, the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program,
the Sustainable Agriculture Farming Systems Project, the Long-Term
Research in Agricultural Systems 100-year experiment, the East Asia
Center on Population Resources and Welfare, and the Global Livestock
Collaborative Research Project.
Currently, the department is organized along four
major broad disciplinary lines: genetics, breeding, and genomics;
quantitative agronomy (applications of information technology to
agriculture); crop physiology and ecology; and range and natural
resource management. The department's ongoing challenge is to span
the full spectrum of research from the basic to the applied levels.
Outreach continues to be an essential component of department activities,
with UCCE statewide specialists and farm advisors assuring the relevance
of research programs. The undergraduate major, Agricultural Systems
and the Environment, reflects a commitment to developing agricultural
practices that are economically and environmentally sound. At the
graduate level, A and RS faculty interact mainly with programs in
Ecology, Genetics, International Agricultural Development, and Plant
Biology. source
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American Studies
In the 1960s UC Davis had an interdepartmental
major called American History and Literature, supervised by W. Turrentine
Jackson. Brom Weber, a faculty member of the Department of English,
gathered a committee to create an autonomous American Studies program,
and the curriculum created was implemented in 1968-69. Weber and
David Wilson, also a member of the English department, took half-time
appointments in American Studies, and Robert Merideth was hired
as program director in 1970. Jay Mechling was hired in 1971. By
the mid-1970s Weber returned to English full-time, and Wilson became
a full-time faculty appointee in American Studies. For several years
Wilson and Mechling managed the program, with some lecturers.
Patricia Turner joined the faculty in 1990,
with a primary appointment in African-American Studies. A leading
scholar in folklore and popular culture, she has also focused on
African-American urban legends and images of African Americans in
popular culture. In 1993 Ruth Frankenberg joined the program. In
1995-96 the reorganization of the College of Letters and Science
into three divisions created the opportunity for two members of
the former Department of Rhetoric, Carole Blair and Kent Ono, to
transfer their positions into American Studies. In the fall of 1996,
after 28 years in Sproul Hall, the American Studies program moved
to Hart Hall to be in closer proximity to the other ethnic and gender-based
cultural studies programs. The program currently has about 70 majors (2001).
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Anatomy
Anatomy existed for several years as an informal
section within the School of Veterinary Medicine under the leadership
of Dr. Logan M. Julian. Julian became chairman of the Department
of Anatomy when official departments were created in 1960. By 1968,
there were five academic staff members.
Anatomy was the first professional course taught
in the new School of Veterinary Medicine when it was established
in 1948. Under the leadership of Julian and Dr. Kenneth B. DeOme,
instruction was organized around a new concept of teaching, with
the objectives of reducing time devoted to teaching of anatomy,
establishing an appreciation of the structural basis for functions,
and clearly separating basic and applied anatomy, presenting each
phase of anatomy in the portion of the curriculum which it best
complemented. The approach involved the presentation of the anatomy
of an idealized "generalized animal" followed by a description of
how each domestic species differed from the generalized plan. The
basic course was followed by a course in applied anatomy taught
in the third year of the professional curriculum. Although this
system of teaching veterinary anatomy was not adopted in its entirety
by any other institution in this country, it had a significant influence
upon the programs of a number of institutions and these innovations
in teaching served as patterns in veterinary schools throughout
the world.
Research in the Department of Anatomy emphasized
the application of anatomical techniques and approaches to the solution
of medical and biological problems and the establishment of biomedical
models. Among these were the diagnosis of dwarfism in cattle as
achondroplasia, the pathogenesis of pulmonary emphysema, the establishment
of the existence of hereditary muscular dystrophy in domestic chickens,
and the pathogenesis of degenerative equine myopathies. Research
involved widespread interdepartmental cooperation within the school
on the Davis campus and between members of various campuses. source
Following a restructuring of the School of Veterinary
Medicine in the early 1970's, the department no longer exists as
such. See also School of Veterinary
Medicine.
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Anatomy, Physiology, and
Cell Biology
There is no history currently available
for this department. See Anatomy,
Animal Physiology,
and the School of Veterinary
Medicine.
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Anesthesiology
There is no history currently available for
this department. See School of
Medicine.
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Animal Physiology
Physiological activity started on the Davis
campus (then the University Farm) in 1929, with appointment of Drs.
Harold Cole and Max Kleiber to the Division of Animal Husbandry;
the Division of Poultry Husbandry appointed Vigfus S. Asmundson
in 1933 and Frederick W. Lorenz in 1938. In 1931, a curriculum in
comparative physiology was established under an inter-campus group
and renamed animal physiology in 1959. The first Ph.D. degree was
awarded in 1953.
After World War II, the number of animal physiologists
on the Davis faculty was greatly augmented. In 1951, 19 of them
organized an informal group, which in 1953, as a result of persistent
efforts, become formalized as a component of the College of Agriculture
in the Group in Animal Physiology with departmental functions, but
no budget. The group developed new courses and also offered a major
leading to the B.S. degree.
On January 1, 1964, the Department of Animal Physiology
was established under the chairmanship of Lorenz. The research fields
initially brought together were high altitude and chronic acceleration
physiology under the direction of Arthur H. Smith, reproductive
physiology (Lorenz), and economic vertebrate ecology under Dr. Walter
E. Howard, vertebrate ecologist in the experiment station. Subsequently,
the department staff was augmented by the appointment of Dr. H.
W. Colvin to develop a research field of wildlife physiology. Irving
H. Wagman was appointed jointly to the department and the National
Center for Primate Biology to initiate a research program in neurophysiology
and Dr. Dorothy E. Woolley was appointed jointly with the Agricultural
Toxicology and Residue Research Laboratory to develop research in
physiological consequences of chronic exposure to toxicants. The
department staff in 1968 also included an assistant specialist and
five extramurally supported professional personnel.
The department enjoyed collaboration with other
physiologists through interdepartmental courtesy appointments, which
brought the total faculty roster to 12, plus two lecturers, and
materially augmented its teaching program. This "grass roots" development
of the department gave it great strength on the campus. Its teaching,
both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, was showing steady
growth in the late 1960s. At that time, the most recent additions
to the departmental offering were a graduate lecture and laboratory
course in neurophysiology and the beginnings of a strong graduate
research program in this subject.
In the late 1960s, the department advised
18 undergraduate majors in animal physiology; six received the B.S.
degree in June of 1965. It administered a National Institutes of
Health graduate training grant in animal physiology and seminars
for the graduate group. There were 37 graduate students in animal
physiology, seven of whom worked in the department. source
Following a restructuring of the School of Veterinary
Medicine in the early 1970's, the department no longer exists as
such. See also School of Veterinary
Medicine.
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Animal Science
The Division of Animal Husbandry (later the
Department of Animal Husbandry) originated in Berkeley in 1901 and
moved to Davis in 1908-1909, when it began offering instruction
in livestock production and management. Starting in the 1920s the
department began to build a national reputation for scientific research
in animal nutrition, physiology, and reproduction, at the same time
working directly with producers to advance the livestock industries
in California. The department changed its name to Animal Science
in 1967 to reflect its emphasis on the basic biology of domestic
animals as well as animal husbandry. In 1998 the Department of Avian
Sciences was merged into the Department of Animal Science, adding
the study of avian species to the department's missions.
Animal Science at UC Davis is the only such department
in the UC system. Department members are engaged in teaching, research,
and extension related to the biology and production of domestic
species. Their primary focus is on animals used for food and fiber,
including freshwater and marine species, but departmental programs
also include horses, companion animals such as dogs, cats, and birds,
laboratory animals (rabbits, hamsters, rats, and mice), and some
wild species. Disciplines represented among the department's 31
teaching and research faculty include animal behavior, ecology,
genetics, microbiology, nutrition, and physiology. Departmental
scientists use modern techniques in molecular biology but also focus
on whole animal biology and problems related to animal production.
The department has one of the largest undergraduate
enrollments at UC Davis, with approximately 800 students enrolled
in 1999 in three undergraduate majors: animal science, avian sciences,
and animal science and management. Graduates often take positions
in the livestock industry, teaching or extension work, and biomedical
research. The department offers two master's programs: the M.S.
in Animal Science and the Master of Agriculture and Management in
cooperation with the UC Davis School of Management.
The department's 45 to 50 individual ongoing research
projects produce more than 100 publications yearly. Faculty members
collaborate with colleagues in the College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences, the School of Veterinary Medicine, and the School of Medicine.
Ten Cooperative Extension specialists are currently housed in the
department, conducting research on livestock, birds, and aquatic
animals, while some 37 local livestock and dairy farm advisors in
county Cooperative Extension offices are also key members of the
UCD team in the animal sciences.
A number of campus buildings bear the names of
distinguished departmental faculty. Regan Hall was named after W.M.
Regan, an expert in dairy cattle, and Hughes Hall after E.H. Hughes,
a specialist in swine production. Hart Hall commemorates G.H. Hart,
department chair for 22 years, who contributed significantly to
the development of scientific emphasis in departmental teaching
and research and later became the first Dean of the School of Veterinary
Medicine. H.H. Cole (Cole Facility) and M. Kleiber (Kleiber Hall)
helped establish the campus as a center of excellence in reproductive
physiology and energetics, respectively. V .S. Asmundson (Asmundson
Hall) was an early pioneer in poultry genetics. J.M. Meyer (Meyer
Hall), a faculty member and department chair, went on to become
dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and
chancellor of the campus for eighteen years. source
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Anthropology
Anthropology began at UC Davis during the
expansion of the College of Letters and Science in the 1950s. In
1954 David L. Olmsted was appointed as the first anthropologist
in a department that also, at that time, included sociology, economics,
and geography. Martin A. Baumhoff, whose specialty was California
archaeology, joined the faculty in 1957, and in 1958 the two anthropologists
joined the newly created Department of Anthropology and Geography.
From the outset, the anthropology program at Davis
strove to include all four subdivisions of the field: cultural anthropology,
linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and biological anthropology.
Daniel Crowley was the first cultural anthropologist to join the
faculty, and several years later a physical anthropologist was added.
In 1962 anthropology and geography split into two separate departments,
and more anthropologists were hired in each of the four sub-disciplines
as the department reached its current size of 20 members.
Because of the great breadth of the field, Davis
anthropologists have carried out a wide range of research activities.
Several specialties stand out. One of these is the study of Native
American peoples of California, first pursued by Olmsted and Baumhoff
and later continued by archaeologists Delbert True and Robert Bettinger.
Among the UC campuses Davis has played a preeminent role in organized
research regarding the languages, cultures, and archaeological record
of California Indians. In recent years the department has worked
with faculty in Native American Studies, and one faculty member,
Martha Macri, has joint appointments in both departments. The Davis
program in biological anthropology is nationally recognized for
its research and graduate teaching. Sarah Hrdy, Peter Rodman, Lynn
Isbell, and Alexander Harcourt have concentrated on primate studies,
training a number of Ph.D. students. Henry McHenry has carried out
important work in the study of hominid fossils, and David Smith
has conducted research in the genetics of human populations since
the 1970s.
Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, the cultural,
or social, anthropologists have emphasized ecological and economic
anthropology. In recent years, the field has included studies of
politics, gender relations, and global issues. Latin American studies
has become a particularly strong interest among a number of Davis
faculty and graduate students.
The department has been highly ranked in several
recent national surveys. Although the job market for academic anthropologists
is small, Davis Ph.D.s have competed successfully for academic positions,
and many have become prominent in their fields. source
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Applied
Science
The proposal for an applied science graduate
program was approved by the Regents in March, 1963 and was established
at Davis in the College of Engineering and at the Lawrence Radiation
Laboratory, Livermore. Instruction began at Livermore in the fall
of 1963 and at Davis in the fall of 1965. The department was officially
established by the Regents in January, 1964. In January of the following
year, the department at Livermore moved to a new building adjacent
to the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
The curriculum provided graduate training leading
to the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in engineering. There was a free interchange
of staff, courses, and students between the two locations and students
could fulfill the requirements for a master's degree at either or
both places. Specialized research leading to dissertation requirements
for the doctorate were conducted primarily at Livermore, where there
were extensive, modern, and in some cases unique facilities in such
fields as plasma physics, nuclear and atomic science and technology,
materials science, electronic computers, and hydrodynamics.
Initially five courses were offered at Livermore;
in 1965, 12 courses were offered at Livermore and four at Davis.
In addition, three special non-credit remedial courses were given
in the summer of 1964. Average enrollment the first year numbered
63, in the second year, 93. In the fall of 1965, 103 students enrolled
at Livermore and seven at Davis. Many of these students studied
on fellowships, ranging from $4,000 to $7,000; the Armed Forces
also assigned some of their officers to study in the department.
Some staff members of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
were recruited to lecture on a part-time basis, supplementing the
full-time professors in the department. The total staff numbered
16, or a full-time equivalent of eight by 1968.
The department awarded its first two master's
degrees in 1964 and a total of ten in 1965. Ph.D. degrees were not
awarded until 1966.
The purpose of the department was to integrate
advanced study in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and engineering,
thereby preparing students to enter careers in which a broad knowledge
of several subjects was required.
The University, by utilizing academic resources
already existing at Livermore and Davis, provided high quality advanced
training for those who could work competently as both engineers and
scientists. source
See also College
of Engineering.
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Art
Before 1952 art at UC Davis was taught in
the College of Agriculture. Richard Cramer, Ruth Horsting, and Daniel
Shapiro were among those who taught design in the Department of
Home Economics. In 1952, when the College of Letters and Science
was established, a Department of Philosophy and Fine Arts was created
with four faculty members, including Richard L. Nelson, who in 1953
was charged with starting a new department of art. In 1956 art historian
Joseph A. Baird Jr. and painter Roland Petersen were recruited,
followed by sculptor Ralph Johnson the next year. A major in studio
art was initiated. The Department of Art was created in 1958, with
Richard Nelson as chair. Jane Garritson, on temporary appointment,
began teaching ceramics, and a second art historian, Seymour Howard,
was hired.
A major in art history began in the early 1960s.
Wayne Thiebaud was appointed in studio art. In 1961 sculptor Tio
Giambruni joined the department, an M.A. program was developed,
and Daniel Crowley began a joint appointment in anthropology and
art history. The following year William T. Wiley was appointed in
drawing and painting. In 1963 Cramer, Horsting, and Shapiro transferred
into the department along with ceramicist Robert Arneson. In 1965
Manuel Neri and Roy DeForest joined the faculty, and in 1966 Cramer
became chair of the department while Richard Nelson became director
of the Laboratory of Fine Arts and Museology. The present art building
was designed and built in 1966 as part of a complex including music
and dramatic art. The graduate studios were completed and occupied
in 1989. The M.A. in studio art was changed to the M.F.A. in 1969.
Additions to the faculty in the 1970s included
Craig Harbison, Tony Fehm, Lynn Matteson, and Price Amerson in art
history; and Mike Henderson, Harvey Himelfarb, Cornelia Schulz,
and Garner Tullis in studio. Jeffrey Ruda and Dianne MacLeod were
appointed in art history in 1980 and 1981. The department has been
graced over the years with a competent and dedicated staff, including
Jeanne Bernauer, administrative assistant, librarians Barbara Hoerman,
Joan Rush, and Bonnie Holt, and department MSO Jerry Wright.
Roland Petersen was the earliest member of the
department to achieve national and international recognition, beginning
in the early 1950s. About 1960, Robert Arneson's work was exhibited
in the Oakland Museum, and William Wiley's at the Whitney in New
York. In 1961 Manual Neri's creations appeared at the Staempfli
Gallery in New York, Petersen had a one-man show at the Palace of
the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, and Wayne Thiebaud had one-man
shows in New York and at the Palace of the Legion of Honor. Works
of Neri, Petersen, Wiley, Thiebaud, Arneson, and De Forest were
exhibited widely and reviewed in prestigious periodicals. Thus the
reputation of the Davis studio faculty over nearly 20 years was
based fairly evenly on the work of six members, with occasional
contributions from one or two others, and was not limited to the
work of one or two stars.
Art history became an autonomous program within
the department in 1990, first headed by Mary Fong, then by Ruda
and MacLeod. Since Cramer's service as chair (1966-81), chairs of
the department have included R. Johnson, Himelfarb, Schulz, Atkinson,
G. Laky, and R. Sommer. source
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Asian American Studies
The UCD program in Asian-American Studies
began in the spring quarter of 1969 with a hundred students enrolled
in a history course on the Asian Experience in America. Faculty
members Jung-Pang Lo, Kenne Chang, and Isao Fujimoto jointly sponsored
this first course. During the summer of 1969,17 students worked
with the newly organized Asian-American Research Project producing
bibliographies, course materials, and a study of the Stockton Filipino
community.
In 1970, Asian-American Studies was incorporated
into the Department of Applied Behavioral Sciences. George Kagiwada
moved from the University of Manitoba in Canada to become the full-time
director of the program. Peter Leung joined the faculty to teach
Cantonese. For many years UC Davis held the distinction of having
the only College of Agriculture in the United States to offer Cantonese.
Since its inception, the Asian-American program
has had a strong community orientation, and faculty have helped
to establish organizations such as the Asian Community Center, the
Asian Legal Services Organization, and, with Dr. Kumagai in the
UCD School of Medicine, the Asian Free Clinic--all based in Sacramento.
Faculty members were also involved with minority group issues such
as the Bakke case, the Fantasia Miniature Golf case, Kenne Chang's
tenure issue, and UC divestment from South Africa. The program became
an issue itself when it faced the loss of its library and during
the tenure battles surrounding faculty active in ethnic studies
programs.
In 1989 the Asian-American Studies program moved
from the College of Agriculture to the College of Letters and Science.
With the support of Chancellor Hullar and Vice Chancellor Cartwright,
the program was stabilized through the addition of new faculty and
new resources. A bachelor's degree major in Asian-American Studies
was established in 1999.
The program at Davis is nationally recognized
for its scholarship in media/cultural studies and in Asian-American
psychology. It currently has seven full- or part-time faculty, several
of whom have joint appointments in other units such as American
Studies, dramatic arts, psychology, and women's studies. Stanley
Sue currently serves as the program's director. source
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Avian Medicine
As early as 1896, poultry raisers near Petaluma
sought University aid in solving poultry disease problems. In 1903,
the legislature appropriated $5,000 to establish the California
Poultry Experiment Station at Petaluma and Archibald R. Ward, the
first veterinarian employed by the University, invited Dr. Veranus
A. Moore, a pathologist from Cornell, to assist him in poultry disease
investigations there. They soon diagnosed avian tuberculosis (for
the second time in North America) and recommended practices for
its control. Their control measures proved highly successful and
were widely adopted during the next 40 years. Fowl pox, fowl cholera,
and "roup" were also studied at the Petaluma station, which was
closed in 1909.
The University became the first in the nation
to employ a full-time poultry pathologist when, in 1915, Dr. Jerry
R. Beach started giving full-time to this work. Fowl pox was the
first disease he attacked and within a year a method of vaccination
was developed which, with certain modifications, became a routine
procedure throughout the world.
With the establishment of the School of Veterinary
Medicine, teaching and research in avian diseases was organized
within an unofficial department under Beach's leadership until his
death in 1951. Dr. William J. Mathey was then temporarily in charge
until Dr. Raymond A. Bankowski was appointed unofficial chairman
in 1952. It was during Dr. Bankowski's tenure that the membership
of the department as it stood in 1968 was largely brought together.
Dr. Livio G. Raggi succeeded Dr. Bankowski in 1959 and then served
as chairman from 1960, when the department gained official status,
until 1964, at which time Dr. Henry E. Adler became chairman.
The department offered instruction in avian
diseases to veterinary and poultry husbandry students. Instruction
was also given to many graduate students. Short courses of instruction
were offered for veterinary practitioners and poultry pathologists.
Research in the tradition of the early pioneers continued on a broader
scale. Studies on Newcastle disease, bronchitis, hepatitis, encephalitis,
Mycoplasma infections, and vesicular exanthema of swine
were of great importance. By 1968, there were five academic staff
members. source
Following a restructuring of the School of Veterinary
Medicine in the early 1970's, Avian Medicine has been incorporated
into the Department of Population Health & Reproduction. See
also School of Veterinary Medicine.
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