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Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi and others talk about the Morrill Act, in an featuring historic 澳门六合彩资料库 photos (including Davis' Titus Hall, 1933). The slide show is part of 澳门六合彩资料库OP's coverage of legislation considered revolutionary at the time of its enactment.
Earlier coverage: 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis News Service (May 1, 2012)
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澳门六合彩资料库 Davis is front and center this week and next in Washington, D.C., for the Smithsonian Institution鈥檚 celebration of the 150th anniversary of the federal law that created land-grant universities.
Five professors are participating, and three of them 鈥 while in Washington 鈥 are giving talks outside the Smithsonian festival, to alumni and legislators and others, on African American folk art and civil rights, the history of rock 鈥檔鈥 roll, and the science of beer.
At the festival, 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis is showcasing some of its many endeavors to develop a more sustainable world: turning textile waste into reusable bags, and turning the campus鈥檚 olives into fine oils and beauty products.
澳门六合彩资料库 Davis is one of 28 participating universities 鈥 and the only 澳门六合彩资料库 鈥 in this year鈥檚 festival.
鈥淭his is a good time to boost our visibility in the nation鈥檚 capital, at the Smithsonian festival and beyond,鈥 said Professor Pat Turner, vice provost of Undergraduate Studies, who led the organizing for this outreach effort in D.C.
Tuesday (June 26), on the eve of the festival鈥檚 opening, Turner, a folklorist, addressed 鈥淐rafting Change: African American Folk Artists and the Civil Rights Movement.鈥 Turner, a professor of African and African American Studies, and American Studies, delivered the talk at the Library of Congress.
Festival opens on National Mall
Today (June 27), Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter represented the university at the opening of the 46th annual . It runs today through July 1, and then from July 4 to 8 on the National Mall.
All but one of the festivals so far has had multiple themes 鈥 for 2012, they include , celebrating two 150-year milestones: the Morrill Act that created the nation鈥檚 land-grant universities, such as 澳门六合彩资料库, and the establishment of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The Campus and Community exhibition area is laid out like a college, with a commons and more than two dozen 鈥渂uildings鈥 (tents), grouped in four areas: Building on Tradition, Reinventing Agriculture, Transforming Communities and Sustainable Solutions.
澳门六合彩资料库 Davis, which could have fit in any of these groups, is in Sustainable Solutions, where the campus is showcasing , or BAG, and the .
Tornado morphs into world globe
Through BAG, design professor Ann Savageau promotes the crafting of reusable bags from textile waste, thereby saving resources and cutting down on the use of plastic bags and the environmental damage they cause.
Last year, she curated a Design Museum with a tornado as the centerpiece 鈥 a tornado made from more than 1,000 plastic bags, the number that an average California couple uses in a year.
In 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis鈥 festival tent on the National Mall, Savageau presents a 6-foot-diameter globe of the world 鈥 made from blue, green and brown plastic bags. She stuck some of the bags into the wire framing to get the continents started, and invites festivalgoers to add the rest.
Festivalgoers also can sit down at sewing machines to make their own reusable bags. And two design students, Carol Shu and Helen Trejo, are showing their work in sustainable fashions.
Olive research and education
The other half of the tent showcases the university鈥檚 work in turning the campus鈥檚 dangerous mess of olives into a clean and tasty business 鈥 one that led to the establishment of the Olive Center, with research and education programs.
It all started with the campus鈥檚 hundreds of olive trees, dropping their fruit on paths all over the campus, creating slippery danger for bicyclists and a mess for groundskeepers. Sal Genito, who ran the ground division at the time, asked:
And so began the brand, in extra-virgin blends with such names as Gunrock and Silo.
Then, in 2008, came the Olive Center, which now boasts more than 30 affiliates 鈥 including faculty members, extension specialists and farm advisers 鈥 with expertise in such areas as production and processing; sustainability; sensory analysis; nutrition and public health; and economics, finance and marketing.
Festival exhibitors are not allowed to give out food samples or offer tastings 鈥 so 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis is simulating the olive oil sensory experience by infusing various oil aromas into wax.
For children, the Olive Center has set out salad spinners to show the process of oil extraction from olive paste (using foam balls and pretend oil).
On the commons at Smithsonian U
Elsewhere at the festival, Turner will give two talks in the commons: 鈥淐lassrooms of the Future鈥 (June 28) and 鈥淔irst-Time Students in the Family鈥 (July 4) 鈥 as she was, the first in her family to go to college. And Dan Flynn, the Olive Center鈥檚 executive director, is giving several talks in the Campus and Community test kitchen.
In addition, three 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis professors are giving mini-lectures at Smithsonian U:
鈥 Charlie Bamforth, food science and technology, 鈥淭he Beauty, Bounty and Benefits of Beer.鈥 Bamforth holds the Anheuser-Busch Professorship in Malting and Brewing Science.
鈥 Chris Reynolds, music, 鈥淗ow Songs Find Their Meanings: Que Sera, Sera.鈥 Reynolds is chair of the Department of Music.
鈥 Diane Ullman, entomology, 鈥淎rt Science Fusion.鈥 Ullman, an associate dean in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, is co-founder and director of the .
Reynolds and Bamforth also are giving lectures away from the festival.
Reynolds, who teaches the popular Music 106 class about rock 鈥檔鈥 roll, will address the 鈥淭he History of Rock 鈥檔鈥 Roll,鈥 Thursday (June 28) at the ; while Bamforth will talk about 鈥淭he Science of Beer Making,鈥 Tuesday (July 3) at an establishment called RFD (Regional Food and Drink).
Going to be in Washington, D.C., on July 3? Bamforth's talk!
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