The Principles of Community Showcase on March 3 at the Betty Irene Moore Hall over at the UC Davis Health campus highlighted the power of collaboration across the Sacramento campus. Staff, partners and community members gathered to exchange ideas, recognize ongoing work and strengthen connections, creating an atmosphere of shared purpose and engagement.

In May 2026, the Avanza Initiative is preparing to host its annual conference, which supports K–16 students from backgrounds historically underrepresented in higher education. Our mission is to serve our communities by encouraging students to pursue a college degree. In the past, this event has been known as the César Chávez Leadership Conference.

UC Davis faculty experts are helping advance campuswide dialogue on global migration through the 2025–2026 Campus Community Book Project, which centers on Solito by Javier Zamora. As part of the initiative, scholars affiliated with the UC Davis Global Migration Center convened for a public panel that explored the social, economic, legal and human dimensions of migration, connecting academic research with the lived experiences reflected in the book.

The University of California, Davis has earned a renewal of the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, reaffirming its national standing as a leader in collaborative, reciprocal partnerships that connect campus expertise with community needs. This elective classification from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Council on Education highlights UC Davis’s longstanding land-grant mission and deep civic commitment, recognizing sustained excellence in community-engaged teaching, research, and outreach through 2032.

On a sunny fall afternoon, the Activities and Recreation Center ballroom buzzed with music, laughter and conversation. A giant balloon arch adorned the entrance and dancers cheered on the more than 100 guests who arrived to celebrate the culmination of the 35th anniversary of the UC Davis Principles of Community.

The region’s most ambitious education-to-career pipeline initiative is accelerating — and UC Davis is a big part of it.

The Sacramento K-16 Collaborative recently announced significant expansion of its regional data partnership: what began on October 8, 2024 with five founding institutions now is growing to include ten additional partners (pending final authorization), bringing the total to 15 institutions collectively serving more than 220,000 students across the Capital Region.

The Center for Reducing Health Disparities (CRHD), together with its collaborators, proudly co-hosted the 15th Annual Spanish Mini Medical School (SMMS) on Saturday, October 4. What began as a modest community gathering has grown into a beloved tradition — this year’s milestone “quinceañera” edition lived up to the magic.

A recent analysis by researchers at Urban Science Lab at UC Davis reveals a troubling trend: between 2018 and 2022, roughly 85% of urban public elementary schools in California lost some portion of their tree canopy. While the average decrease statewide was modest — under 2% — some districts, particularly in the Central Valley, saw losses as steep as 25%.

In a quiet corner of International House Davis on a Tuesday evening, a group of about a dozen Davis community members and UC Davis faculty, staff and students gathered for conversation that was anything but small. They came together to discuss Solito — Javier Zamora’s powerful memoir of migration from El Salvador to the United States — and in doing so, they found connection, courage and belonging.

When the COVID-19 pandemic exposed deep gaps in access to reliable health information and care, researchers and community leaders across the country moved to build better connections.