$1 million endowment from Givaudan will allow for the creation of endowed chair position to support and maintain collection.

The Gates Foundation has aided in the distribution of "scuba rice," a variety developed by UC Davis and UC Riverside researchers that can withstand floods that would otherwise destroy crops.

This year’s Big Ideas student innovation contest features nine categories, including the newly extended Energy & Resource Alternatives category, sponsored by the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative.

Go back to school with Mark Bittman and step into a San Francisco school cafeteria that’s piloting a new initiative aiming to engage kids to eat more healthful meals.

The effects of sugar can take your body down a vicious cycle known as metabolic syndrome.  At UC Davis, Kimber Stanhope studies these effects to understand what sugar does to our body.

Food activist and scholars are among 10 honored for their work elevating the human experience.

For more than three decades, Lipson has been intimately involved with the organic movement; he has recently returned to his roots at UC Santa Cruz, serving as a research associate with UCSC’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.

UC Santa Barbara anthropologist explores cattle raising, deforestation and ongoing tensions between conservation and development in the Amazon.

UC Merced lab spurs students' use of technology to serve agriculture, environment, health.

Center —one of only 12 nationwide – will support and facilitate studies on obesity, nutrition and metabolism at UCSF and across Northern California.

Q&A with Amrita Hazra, who leads UC Berkeley's Millet Project team, with a Berkeley Food Institute seed grant and support from the UC Global Food Initiative's CLEAR subcommittee.

San Francisco is adding warning labels on advertisements for sugary beverages; UCSF's Laura Schmidt, who helped advise the city on the first-in-the-nation law, is interviewed.