CAES.UCDAVIS.EDU - Key Persons
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- Aggie Jumpstart and Community Coordinator
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- International Academic Advisor
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- Executive Associate Dean / Professor of Animal Science
- Executive Associate Dean, Professor
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- Assistant Dean of Development
- Assistant Dean of Development and External Relations
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Annie's significant experience both at UC Davis and as a major gifts officer at UC San Francisco have made her well suited to support the mission and goals of the college. Annie joined the CA&ES Development and Alumni Relations Team in March of 2021 as a senior director of development, working as the lead fundraiser for the Department of Viticulture and Enology. In 2022 she assumed management responsibilities within the team as managing senior director of development, and oversaw development staff and fundraising efforts in the agricultural and environmental sciences divisions. In her first two years as part of the CA&ES team, she successfully secured just under $7M in gifts to support teaching, research and extension.
Prior to UC Davis, Annie spent ten years at UC San Francisco as part of their University Development and Alumni Relations Office. Beginning as a major gift officer in 2015, she worked with a host of programs within the School of Medicine, securing more than $18M in support for a wide array of activities, including basic translational and clinical research, clinical care, education, social justice and policy work. During her tenure at UCSF, she was also a part of the institution's successful $6.2B comprehensive campaign, one of the largest ever for a public health-sciences focused university.
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- Executive Assistant to Executive Associate Dean Oberbauer
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- Executive Assistant
- Appointed Executive Assistant Dean
- Executive Assistant Dean of Finance and Administration
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Brian McEligot is the executive assistant dean for the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. He is the lead financial and administrative officer and oversees the business and financial operations of the college. McEligot provides leadership for college resource management and planning and deals with a wide range of issues such as policy, budget models, resource allocation, initiatives and organizational structure. The executive assistant dean also has primary responsibility for CA&ES financial planning and analyses in support of the operating and capital budgets. In addition, he manages the college's budget and financial services, facilities planning, information technology, business services and general administration.
McEligot joined the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in 2007 as a commencement coordinator, quickly moving into financial and research analyst positions before becoming chief administrative officer in 2016. He has spearheaded strategic and business planning initiatives across the college as well as managing complex budgets and projects.
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- Undergraduate Academic Programs Assistant
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- Plant Biology ( 530 ) 752 - 0617
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- Development Associate
- Gift Administration
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- Associate Dean for Agricultural Sciences
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- Associate
- Associate Dean
- Director
- Professor
Ermias Kebreab is associate dean for global engagement in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, as well as director of the World Food Center. He is a renowned scholar and skilled administrator with extensive experience in sustainable agriculture and animal science.
Kebreab oversees the advancement of the college's international goals while working in collaboration with extensive internal and external partnerships to magnify the grand challenges facing our global food systems.
Kebreab is the Sesnon Endowed Chair in the Department of Animal Science. He has conducted extensive research in developing strategies for using feed additives to reduce methane emissions from livestock and has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. He is chair of the United Nations FAO Technical Working Group on Feed Additives, a committee member for the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Panel on Anthropogenic Methane Emissions in the United States and also serves on the NAS Committee for Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle. He is a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2019 Update on Good Practices Guideline in Chapter 4, "Emissions from Livestock and Manure Management."
Hailing from Eritrea, Kebreab received his B.S. in biology from the University of Asmara, followed by an M.S. in integrative biology and a Ph.D. in ecological modeling from the University of Reading, UK. He has previously served as the associate vice provost of Academic Programs for Global Affairs and as the deputy director for the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis.
Associate Dean of Global Engagement
Director of the World Food Center
Professor of Animal Science
ekebreab@ucdavis.edu
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- Professor Emeritus / Food Science and Technology
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- Associate Program Director for Olive Center
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- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Programs
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- Executive Assistant to the Director
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- Community Education Specialist
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- Contained Research Facility
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- College Personnel Analyst
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- Program Director for GFAD, Grant Writer and International Projects Coordinator and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor
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- Research and Budget Analyst
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- Senior Director of Development
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- Dean / College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Dean 's Office
- Dean / Professor of Plant Pathology
- Ex Officio
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- Training Program Specialist
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- Director of Information Technology
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- Executive Assistant to Dean Dillard
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- Associate Dean for Environmental Sciences
- Student Leadership Programs Coordinator
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- Associate Dean for Agricultural Sciences / Professor of Entomology and Nematology
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- Executive Analyst to Associate Dean Ebeler and Academic Program Analyst
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- Managing Senior Director of Development
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- Associate Director of Development and Donor Relations
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- Student Activities and Engagement Coordinator
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- Associate Dean Emeriti
- Executive Analyst to Associate Dean Ebeler and Academic Program Analyst
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- Associate Dean, CA & ES Dean 's Office
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- Research and Budget Analyst
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- Associate Dean for Environmental Sciences / Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
- Professor / Environmental Science and Policy
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Marcel Holyoak completed both a B.S. in biology in 1989 and a Ph.D. in ecology with an emphasis in population ecology in 1992 at Imperial College, University of London. After postdoctoral stints at The Center for Population Biology at Silwood Park, UK, and the University of Kentucky, he joined the Department of Entomology at UC Davis in 1994 where he was a professional researcher until he was appointed as a faculty member in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis in 2000. He served as department chair from 2016 to 2019. In 2019, Holyoak was named Associate Dean for Environmental Sciences in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Holyoak's research program focuses on questions about the effects of global change on animal populations and communities, and the maintenance of biodiversity in natural ecosystems. Major directions include the effects of climate change and habitat change on both long-term population dynamics and spatially structured populations and communities. These are studied through plant-insect systems and terrestrial vertebrates. His work contributes to the conservation of imperiled species in California, and in understanding the change in biodiversity in response to global change worldwide. He has a broad training in biostatistics, theoretical ecology, experimental design and natural history.
Holyoak's research program and experience is quite international, with ongoing collaborations with ecologists in China. He has held visiting appointments at The Center for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem in 2007 and in Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing in 2012-13. From 2007 to 2015, he was editor-in-chief of a top-ranked ecology journal, Ecology Letters and has been a senior editor for Integrative Zoology since 2017. He was a founding board member of Data Dryad, a data archiving non-profit organization that archives data from studies in ecology and evolution and has interests in preserving and maintaining public access to environmental data.
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- Aggie Jumpstart and Community Coordinator
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- Senior Director of Development
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- Senior Director of Development
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- Plant Sciences / 530 - 752 - 2644
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- Community Education Specialist
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- College Personnel Analyst
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- Executive Assistant Dean for Administration
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- Managing Senior Director of Development
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- Executive Director of Development
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- Associate Dean for Human / Social Sciences / Professor of Human Ecology
- Professor
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Patsy Eubanks Owens joined faculty at UC Davis in 1990 as an assistant professor in landscape architecture. She is a product of the land grant university system, beginning with her 4-H membership at an early age. Her 4-H landscaping project evolved into her university studies and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgia. After several years of private practice in Philadelphia, she continued her education and received a Master of Landscape Architecture at University of California, Berkeley. She began her teaching career at Virginia Tech.
Owens' research focuses on the relationships between people and the outdoor environment. Specifically, her work examines the role of the physical environment in the development, health and well-being of youth and methods of community involvement in design decision-making. Her academic work uses a model of engaged scholarship where the boundaries between research, teaching and outreach are blurred. She frequently leads her students in community-based projects that apply current research thinking. Early in her teaching career, her desire to bring university and professional expertise to communities was realized through establishing the Community Design Assistance Center at Virginia Tech, which has been in operation for the past 30 years. For this effort, Owens received the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture-Award of Distinction. Her research on youth includes international studies in rural, urban and suburban communities. Owens is a member and past chair of the Children, Youth Environments Network of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA). She also served on the EDRA board.
Owens' interest in understanding and creating places supportive of local communities and varied populations is reflected in her teaching. Her lower-division course, "Place, Culture and Community," examines the cultural landscape and helps students interpret the world around them. She also teaches a graduate course, "Environment and Behavior," in which students explore place preferences, behaviors and influences of the built environment on everyday lives. Owens was the inaugural chair of the Human Ecology Department at UC Davis. For her leadership skills and contributions to the profession, she received the Outstanding Administrator Award from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) and the Legacy Award from the Sierra Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
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- Assistant Dean of Development and External Relations
- Assistant Director of Alumni and Volunteer Engagement
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- Executive Assistant Dean for Administration
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- Assistant Director of Development
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- Application Developer Supervisor
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- Cooperative Extension Specialist Emeritus
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- Associate Dean of Undergraduate Academic Programs / Professor of Viticulture and Enology
- Ex Officio
- Professor
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- Senior Director of Development
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- Assistant Director of Alumni and Volunteer Engagement
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- Museum of Entomology Welcomes New Director With Spider Expertise
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- Marketing Content Specialist
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- Director of Communications
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- Student Outreach Coordinator
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- Environmental Science and Policy
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- Director of the Far East Programs