* March 6, Wednesday -- Pamela Marrone, president and chief
executive officer of AgraQuest, will discuss at UC Davis
whether sustainability and hard business mix. An expert in
agricultural biotechnology and biopesticide science, she
founded AgraQuest in 1995. The company researches, develops
and markets environmentally friendly, natural products for
farm, home and public-health pest management. Marrone's
presentation, part of the Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series
of the Graduate School of Management, will begin about 6 p.m.
in the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. Media are welcome
to attend the by-invitation-only event. Media contacts: Tim
Akin, Graduate School of Management, (530) 752-7362,
tmakin@ucdavis.edu; Julia Ann Easley, News Service, (530)
752-8248, jaeasley@ucdavis.edu.
COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS MEET ON TRANSFER PROCESS
* March 7, Thursday -- District chancellors, presidents and
faculty members from California community colleges and
representatives of the University of California and its Davis
campus will discuss ways to improve the process by which
community college students transfer to the university.
"Partners in Higher Education," the 12th UC Davis/community
college symposium, will feature panel discussions on UC Davis
transfer initiatives and creating a community college
transfer culture. State Sen. Richard Alarcon (D-San
Fernando), who chairs the Senate Select Committee on College
and University Admissions and Outreach, will discuss
collaborative efforts to enhance the transfer process in a
luncheon speech. Media are welcome to attend the by-
invitation-only event, held on campus from 8:30 a.m. to 2
p.m. Media contacts: Dan Roy, director of Student Special
Services and symposium chair, (530) 752-4444,
ddroy@ucdavis.edu; Julia Ann Easley, News Service, (530) 752-
8248, jaeasley@ucdavis.edu.
LAW CONFERENCE EXPLORES AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
*March 8, Friday -- Mark Rey, undersecretary for natural
resources and environment with the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, will deliver the keynote address at a UC Davis
conference on "Agriculture and the Environment: Building a
Sustainable and Healthy Future." Three panel discussions will
focus on the competing water needs of agriculture and the
environment (10 a.m.), agriculture and environmental justice
(12:30 p.m.), and water quality and agriculture (2:35 p.m.).
The daylong conference, organized by the Environmental Law
Society at the School of Law, will begin at 9 a.m. in the
Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center; Rey will speak at 9:30
a.m. Registration is necessary, and more information is
available at
Service, (530) 752-8248, jaeasley@ucdavis.edu.
HEAD OF SOLID WASTE BUSINESS TO SPEAK
* March 12, Tuesday -- Ron Mittelstaedt, president, chief
executive officer and chair of Waste Connections, will
discuss what is one of the Sacramento region's most
successful start-ups in a presentation in Sacramento. Formed
in 1997 and headquartered in Folsom, Waste Connections
provides solid waste collection, transfer, disposal and
recycling services in secondary markets throughout the
western United State, Tennessee and Mississippi. Mittelstaedt
will address members of the management school's Business
Partners program. The meeting starts at 7:30 a.m. at the
Vizcaya Pavilion, 2019 21st St., Sacramento; Mittelstaedt
will speak at about 8 a.m. Media are invited to cover the by-
invitation-only event. Media contacts: Tim Akin, Graduate
School of Management, (530) 752-7362, tmakin@ucdavis.edu;
Julia Ann Easley, News Service, (530) 752-8248,
jaeasley@ucdavis.edu.