Hands below a light bulb
Blum Center |

Big Ideas deadline approaches

Preproposals are due Nov. 12 for UC student innovation contest.

Standing inside the food pantry at UCI's Student Outreach & Retention Center are (from left) ASUCI food security Co-commissioner Erica Wong, Orange County Food Bank Director Mark Lowry, SOAR Director Graciela Fernandez and ASUCI food security Co-commissio
UC Irvine |

Banking on food

Free pantry staves off hunger among needy UC Irvine students.

Visiting eco-chef Roger Feely makes grasshopper tacos during a demonstration of drought-friendly cooking at Festival of Discovery in Aldrich Park.
UC Irvine |

Food for thought

UC Irvine provides a full menu of events, activities encouraging new approaches to sustainable nourishment.

UC Newsroom |

The research that's changing U.S. food policy

UC research is helping uncover answers to the nation’s obesity epidemic and other thorny food-related issues.

UC San Francisco |

Does healthier food help low-income people control their diabetes?

Researchers find better management of diabetes through nutrition food and education supplied by food pantries.

UC Berkeley |

Student team aims for app to help diabetes patients dining out

UC Berkeley team heading to round 2 of the Diabetes Design Challenge.

The UC Berkeley Food Pantry will benefit from the campus’s new relationship with Bank of the West.
UC Berkeley |

Agreement with Bank of the West to benefit student programs

The agreement will help support programs like Bears for Financial Success and the UC Berkeley Food Pantry.

Agriculture, including vegetables, grain and fruit crops, is the largest sector of Pakistan's economy.
UC Davis |

UC Davis and Pakistan launch $17M food and agricultural partnership

Project will build on UC Davis' efforts in Pakistan agriculture, with a renewed emphasis on an exchange of faculty and graduate students.

Irish President Michael Higgins meets Berkeley students and announces seed funding for an Irish studies program.
UC Berkeley |

Irish president presses his case for ending world hunger

Helps launch Irish studies program at UC Berkeley.

A vegan kale, pomegranate and roasted butternut squash salad is among the harvest salads on Brown’s winter menu.
UC Berkeley |

Food Day star: new 'plant-forward' Brown's cafe

The new menu at the UC Berkeley eatery consists almost entirely of local foods that are grown, milled, preserved and processed within 250 miles of the campus.

woman walks among rows of crops
UC Davis |

Map IDs farmland with greatest potential for replenishing groundwater

Groundwater banking index provides information on millions of acres of California farmland.

UC President Janet Napolitano listens to the first class of UC Global Food Initiative student fellows discuss their projects at Masumoto Family Farm in Del Rey.
UC Newsroom |

UC students awarded Global Food Initiative fellowships

The 44 fellows, representing all 10 UC campuses, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources and Berkeley Lab, will help advance the systemwide initiative.

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