UC Davis officials are forging a plan to turn the campus into a nexus for food research, policy and new technology, Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi told the University of California Board of Regents last Thursday.
Only a month old, the plan calls for the creation of a World Food Center that would tie together the more than 30 centers or institutes on the UC Davis campus that engage in research related to food, nutrition and health, Katehi said.
The chancellor said she hopes the center will come to be seen as the Brookings Institute for food, producing leading research on everything from food policy to genomics.
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