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The College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (Ag&E) is one of four colleges of the University of California, Davis. Established in 1922, it offers degrees in 27 undergraduate majors and thirty-three graduate groups (i.e. M.S. and Ph.D.).[1] As of January 2014, the College has been overseen by Dean Helene Dillard.
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| Type | Public professional school |
|---|---|
| Established | 1922 |
Parent institution | University of California, Davis |
| Dean | Helene Dillard |
| Address | 150 One Shields Avenue , , , U.S. 38°32′13″N 121°44′57″W |
| Website | caes |
The college is organized into three divisions, which are then further subdivided into 22 departments, as follows:
Agricultural Sciences Division
- Animal Science
- Biological and Agricultural engineering
- Entomology
- Nematology
- Plant pathology
- Plant sciences
- Agronomy and Range science
- Environmental horticulture
- Pomology
- Vegetable crops
- Viticulture and Enology
Environmental Sciences Division
- Environmental science and Policy
- Environmental toxicology
- Founded in 1968, this department offered the first undergraduate degree in environmental toxicology at any university.[2]
- Landscape Architecture
- Land, Air and Water Resources
- Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
- This department was started in the early 1970s under the name Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. It was given its current name in the mid-1980s as conservation was becoming an increasingly popular societal issue. Department faculty, cooperative extension specialists, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students training and studying in fields including ecology, wildlife management, conservation biology, animal behavior, evolution, and population biology. It is home of the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, which houses 60,000 specimens of vertebrates primarily used for teaching and research. Undergraduates may choose the wildlife, fish, and conservation biology major and take a Bachelor of Science.[3]
Human Sciences Division
- Managerial Economics (formally Agricultural and Resource Economics)
- Environmental Design
- Food Science and Technology
- Human and Community Development
- Nutrition
- Textiles and Clothing
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