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Media relations and University communications

Campus news

Mitchel Benson, News Service director

  • office: (530) 752-9844 … cellular: (530) 220-0863 … home: (916) 721-8880
  • Beat areas…
    • Campus planning
    • Campus economic impacts
    • Environmental Health and Safety
    • Facilities
    • Labor issues
    • Local/state government collaborations

Campus policies and issues

Lisa Lapin, assistant vice chancellor for university communications

  • office: (530) 752-9842 … cellular: (530) 304-1488 … home: (916) 483-1621
  • Beat areas…
    • Administration appointments
    • Campus-wide issues
    • Campus planning
    • Policies

Campus operations and student affairs

Julia Ann Easley, senior public information representative

  • office: (530) 752-8248 … cellular: (530) 219-4545 … home: (916) 442-5644
  • Beat areas…
    • Campus Operations
      • Office of Administration
        • Emergency Planning and Response
        • Environmental Health & Safety
        • Facilities
        • Grounds
      • Office of Resource Management and Planning
      • University Library
      • University Relations
    • Graduate Studies
    • Statistics and records
      • Alumni records
      • Admissions/registration and enrollment
      • Employee records
      • Student Affairs Research and Information (SARI)
    • Student Affairs
      • Aggie Family Pack
      • Activities and organizations
      • Admissions/registration
      • Advising
      • Associated Students of UC Davis
      • Classes/academic support programs
      • Cross-Cultural Center
      • Financial aid
      • Housing
      • International students
      • Intercollegiate athletics
      • K-12 Outreach
        • Admissions Outreach
        • Early Academic Opportunity Program
        • School/University Partnerships
      • Multi-use stadium
      • Support services (health center, internship and career center, international students, Student Affairs Research and Information, etc.)
    • Vice Provost for Outreach and International Programs
      • Summer Sessions
      • University Extension

Agricultural and nutritional sciences and veterinary medicine

Patricia Bailey, senior public information representative

  • office: (530) 752-9843 … cellular: (530) 902-3349 … home: (530) 756-7127
  • Beat areas…
    • Agricultural crops and animal products
      • Animal Science
      • Plant Science
      • Textiles and Clothing
      • Viticulture, Enology and Robert Smiley’s industry-related work at GSM
    • Agricultural pests
      • Entomology
      • Nematology
      • Plant Pathology
    • Agricultural practices
      • Agricultural History Center
      • Agricultural Issues Center
    • Agricultural safety and health issues
      • FoodSafe Program
      • Food Science and Technology
      • Nutrition
      • Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science
      • Sustainable Agriculture
      • Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety
    • Biotechnology
      • Biological and Agricultural Engineering
      • Biotechnology Program
      • Genetic Resources Conservation
      • Seed Biotechnology Center
    • Veterinary Medicine
      • California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory
      • Center for Comparative Medicine
      • Center for Companion Animal Health
      • Center for Equine Health
      • School of Veterinary Medicine
      • Veterinary Genetics Laboratory
      • Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital
      • Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center (Tulare)

Humanities, arts, social sciences, business, education and law

Claudia Morain, senior public information representative

  • office: (530) 752-9841
  • Beat areas…
    • Business
      • Graduate School of Management
    • Economics, Politics and Government
      • Agricultural and Resource Economics and Managerial Economics (College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
      • Economics (College of Letters and Sciences)
      • Institute of Governmental Affairs
      • Political Science
      • International Relations
      • Washington Center
    • School of Education
    • School of Law
    • Arts and Humanities
      • Art and Art History
      • English
      • Environmental Design
      • Film Studies
      • Galleries and museums
      • Humanities Institute
      • Languages and literature
      • Medieval Studies
      • Music
      • Pacific Regional Humanities Institute
      • Religious Studies
      • Technocultural Studies
      • Theatre and Dance
    • Ethnic and Cultural Studies
      • African and African American Studies
      • American Studies
      • Asian American Studies
      • Chicana/o Studies
      • Native American Studies
      • Women and Gender Studies
    • Social Sciences
      • Anthropology
      • Communication
      • East Asian Studies
      • History
      • Human and Community Development
      • Sociology

Biological and physical sciences and engineering

Andy Fell, senior public information representative

  • office: (530) 752-4533 … cellular: (530) 304-8888 … home: (530) 297-0581
  • Beat areas…
    • Biological Sciences
      • Bioinformatics
      • Center for Animal Behavior
      • Center for Neuroscience
      • Center for Population Biology
      • Genomics
      • Microbiology
      • Molecular and Cellular Biology
      • Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
      • Plant Biology
    • Computer and Quantitative Sciences
      • Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV)
      • Center for Statistics in Science and Technology
      • Electrical and Computer Sciences
      • Mathematics
      • Statistics
      • Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)
    • Engineering
      • Applied Science
      • Biomedical Engineering
      • Center for Geotechnical Modeling
      • Center for Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies
      • Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
      • Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
    • Office of Research
      • Industry Research Alliances
      • McClellan Nuclear Radiation Center
      • UC Davis InnovationAccess
    • Physical Sciences
      • Chemistry
      • Geology
      • Nanophases
      • Physics
    • Social Sciences
      • Center for Mind and Brain and Psychology
    • Veterinary Medicine
      • California National Primate Research Center

Environmental sciences

Sylvia Wright, senior public information representative

  • office: (530) 752-7704 … cellular: (530) 219-8849 … home: (530) 758-3123
  • Beat areas…
    • Air quality
    • Water quality and supply
    • Land conservation and land-loss mitigation
    • Environmental issues in agriculture
    • Marine ecosystem health
    • Fish and seafood farming
    • Wildlife health, conservation and management
    • Threatened and endangered species
    • Invasive species
    • Climate change
    • Energy policy
    • Transportation, especially alternative fuels (hydrogen, biofuels, etc.), fuel cells and hybrids
    • Urban planning
    • Landscape architecture
    • Organized research units
      • Air Quality Research Center
      • Bodega Marine Laboratory
      • Center for Integrated Watershed Science and Management
      • Information Center for the Environment
      • Institute of Transportation Studies
      • John Muir Institute of the Environment
      • Road Ecology Center
      • Tahoe Environmental Research Center
      • UC Davis Natural Reserve System
      • Wildlife Health Center

Emergency Services and Broadcast Specialist

Paul Pfotenhauer, senior public information representative

  • office: (530) 752-6397 … cellular: (530) 219-4544 … home: (530) 666-3818

Dateline UC Davis — faculty and staff newspaper

Clifton Parker, editor

  • (530) 752-1932

Dave Jones, associate editor

  • (530) 752-1932