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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.

Divisions

The college is organized into three divisions, which are then further subdivided into 22 departments, as follows:

Agricultural Sciences Division

Environmental Sciences Division

  • Founded in 1968, this department offered the first undergraduate degree in environmental toxicology at any university.[2]
  • 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

References

  1. ^ "College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences". UC Regents. Archived from the original on July 17, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  2. ^ "ETOX History of the Department". Archived from the original on 2008-07-05. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
  3. ^ "WFCB Home Page". Archived from the original on 2008-09-15. Retrieved 2008-07-26.

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source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_College_of_Agricultural_and_Environmental_Sciences