Design thinking is a graduate-level class offered through the Department of Food Science and Technology that brings students from across campus together to learn and apply the tools of both design thinking and food studies toward addressing high impact food system challenges.

We are a group of researchers looking at how to make our agriculture and food systems more just and sustainable. We study the ways that political, economic and social structures influence the resiliency and fairness of our food systems throughout the value chain from production to consumption. 

The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) at UC Davis is a student-run organization dedicated to academic excellence among Native American students in the fields of science and engineering both within and outside our university.