University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis is a public land-grant research university in the Davis area of California, founded in 1905 as an agricultural branch of the University of California and made the sixth general campus of the system in 1959, and it is the northernmost of the ten University of California campuses as well as the largest by area.加州大学戴维斯分校是位于美国加利福尼亚州戴维斯地区的公立赠地研究型大学，1905 年以加州大学的农业分校身份创办，1959 年正式成为加州大学的第六所普通校区；它是加州大学十所校区中最北的一所，也是占地面积最大的一所。

In the autumn of 2023 the campus enrolled 40,848 students, of whom 31,797 were undergraduates and 7,912 were postgraduates, taught by 2,175 faculty, and it runs the largest veterinary school in the United States, more than ninety research graduate programmes and a library system holding over 3.5 million volumes.2023 年秋季该校在校生为 40,848 人，其中本科生 31,797 人、研究生 7,912 人，教职人员 2,175 人；学校拥有全美规模最大的兽医学院、九十多个科研型研究生项目，以及藏书逾 350 万册的图书馆系统。

History

• The university's agricultural roots begin in 1868, when the University of California created a College of Agriculture as required by the Morrill Land-Grant Acts, and Ezra S. Carr, the first professor of agriculture, was dismissed in 1874 after trying to fuse hands-on farm training with courses in the social and political history of farming, an argument his colleagues and the state farmers never accepted.学校的农业根基始于 1868 年，当时加州大学依《莫里尔赠地法案》设立农业学院；首任农业教授埃兹拉·S·卡尔试图把田间劳作训练与农业的社会政治史课程结合，却遭同事与州内农民的共同反对，最终于 1874 年被解职。

• Eugene W. Hilgard, who succeeded Carr, argued that the Berkeley site lay in a belt of extreme coastal climate unsuited to farming and replaced practical instruction with the scientific principles of agriculture studied in the laboratory, and although he had scorned the idea of a university farm, in his last report as dean in 1905 he conceded that one had become a pressing need.接替卡尔的尤金·W·希尔加德指出，贝克利校址处在受海雾影响的极端海洋性气候带，不宜务农，因而把「实践式」教学改为在实验室中研究农业的科学原理。他早年对大学农场颇为不屑，却在 1905 年以院长身份提交的最后一份报告中承认，大学农场已成为一项迫切需要。

• Peter J. Shields, secretary of the California Agricultural Society, began pressing for a university farm around 1900 after learning that students were leaving the state to attend comparable farms elsewhere, and he was honoured as the founder of the campus when the Shields Oak Grove was named for him in 1962, with the campus library following in 1972.加州农业协会秘书彼得·J·希尔兹在 20 世纪初开始力主兴建大学农场，此前他了解到学生为就读同类农场而离开本州。1962 年，校内一片橡树林以他命名，官方据此将他奉为学校的创办人；1972 年，校园图书馆也以他的名字命名。

• George Washington Pierce Jr., a local farmer and politician who fought aggressively for the farm in the California State Assembly, ensured that the site criteria in the University Farm Bill were drawn so tightly that only the small town of Davisville in Yolo County could satisfy them, and he did not live to see the promotion of Davis to a general campus.本地农场主兼政治家乔治·华盛顿·皮尔斯二世在加州州议会中大力推动兴建大学农场，他促成《大学农场法案》中的选址条件被收得极紧，以致只有约洛县的小镇戴维斯维尔能够满足；然而他未能看到戴维斯升格为普通校区的那一天。

• The University Farm Bill was enacted on 18 March 1905, calling for a farm typical of the best general agricultural conditions in California and appropriating 150,000 dollars, a committee of the regents spent a year choosing a site of 779 acres from the stock farm of Jerome C. Davis, took possession in September 1906 and built four buildings in 1907.《大学农场法案》于 1905 年 3 月 18 日通过，规定要建立一座代表加州最佳一般农业条件的农场，并拨款 15 万美元。校董会组成的委员会用一年时间选址，最终选定杰罗姆·C·戴维斯养牛场中的 779 英亩土地；1906 年 9 月正式接管，1907 年建成四栋建筑。

• Short courses were first offered at the farm in October and November 1908, and the Farm School opened for instruction on 5 January 1909 as an agricultural secondary school with a three-year course for farm boys of at least fifteen, its first class consisting of eighteen young men because the original dormitories could not take girls.农场于 1908 年 10 月和 11 月首次开设短期课程，1909 年 1 月 5 日农场学校正式开学，招收年满十五岁的农场少年、就读三年制课程；首届 18 名学生全为男生，因为当时的宿舍无法接纳女生。

• The minimum age of entry rose from fifteen to eighteen in 1913, Berkeley women first visited the farm for a few months in 1914, women joined the farmers' short courses in 1917 and the Farm School first admitted girls in 1918, and in May 1922 the school was formally terminated after graduating a final class of 97 students.1913 年入学最低年龄由十五岁提高到十八岁；1914 年伯克利的学生首次到农场短期学习，1917 年女性开始参加面向农民的短期课程，1918 年农场学校首次招收女生；1922 年 5 月，农场学校在送走 97 人的最后一届毕业生后正式终止。

• The two-year vocational programme that replaced the school issued certificates rather than degrees, and the campus expanded at a breakneck pace, from 314 students on the original 778 acres in 1916 to about 3,000 acres by 1951, while its name changed from University Farm to the Northern Branch of the College of Agriculture in 1922 and to the College of Agriculture at Davis in 1938.取代农场学校的两年制职业项目只发证书、不发学位；校区则以极快的速度扩张，1916 年在最初的 778 英亩上只有 314 名学生，到 1951 年已扩展到约 3,000 英亩。校名也随之变更：1922 年由「大学农场」改为「农业学院北部分校」，1938 年改为「戴维斯农业学院」。

• Students from the College of Agriculture at Berkeley had enrolled at Davis for a single semester since 1909 to gain practical training on a real farm, but had to return to Berkeley to be awarded their degrees, and after pressure from agricultural interests the regents authorised a two-year undergraduate programme in 1922, with the first class of degree students graduating in 1926.自 1909 年起，伯克利农业学院的学生就到戴维斯注册读一个学期以获得真实农场的实操训练，但学位仍须回伯克利授予。在农业界持续施压之后，校董会于 1922 年批准设立两年制本科项目，首届本科毕业生于 1926 年毕业。

• The two campuses are 53 miles apart and a new bridge over the Carquinez Strait in 1927 shortened the drive between them, which allowed faculty to hold joint appointments at both, a sharing that explains why Davis developed its own identity without the inferiority complex that shaped the University of California at Los Angeles during the system-wide decentralisation of 1957 to 1960.两校相距 53 英里，1927 年卡基内兹海峡新桥的通车缩短了车程，教职因此得以在两校同时任职。这种共享解释了戴维斯如何形成自己的独立身份而没有陷入自卑感——后者正是在 1957 至 1960 年全系统分权过程中塑造了加州大学洛杉矶分校的性格。

• The state legislature authorised a veterinary school at Davis in 1941, but its launch was delayed by American entry into the Second World War, and in 1943 the United States Army Signal Corps took over the campus as a training facility, returning it to civilian use only at the end of 1944.州立法机构于 1941 年批准在戴维斯设立兽医学院，但因美国参加第二次世界大战而推迟；1943 年，美国陆军通信兵接管整座校园作为培训设施，直到 1944 年底才交还给民用。

• From 1926 to 1947 every Davis student earning a bachelor's degree had to travel to Berkeley for the ceremony, until in 1948 the regents agreed to decentralise graduations and University of California president Robert Gordon Sproul awarded 101 bachelor of science degrees in agriculture at Davis together with 195 certificates from the two-year vocational programme.1926 至 1947 年，戴维斯所有本科毕业生都必须赴伯克利参加授予仪式；1948 年校董会同意下放毕业授予权，加州大学校长罗伯特·戈登·斯普劳尔在戴维斯颁出 101 个农业科学学士学位，并向两年制职业项目毕业生颁出 195 张证书。

• The campus expanded westward in 1949 by buying the 526-acre Straloch Farm from Harry Hopkins, which came with an 86-acre private airport he had built in 1946, and that airport remains the only one in the University of California system.1949 年，学校从哈里·霍普金斯手中买下 526 英亩的斯特拉洛克农场，使校区向西扩展；农场内还有霍普金斯 1946 年修建的 86 英亩私人机场，该机场至今仍是加州大学系统内唯一的机场。

• The head of the Davis campus was first a director reporting to the dean at Berkeley, became an assistant dean in 1944 and a provost in 1951, and in May 1952 the university appointed Harry R. Wellman its first vice-president for agricultural sciences, a division that brought the colleges at Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles and Riverside together with the extension field stations and the county farm offices under one head.戴维斯校区的主管最初是向伯克利院长汇报的主任，1944 年改称副院长，1951 年升任教务长；1952 年 5 月，加州大学任命哈里·R·韦尔曼为首任农业科学副校长，其所辖的农业学部把伯克利、戴维斯、洛杉矶和里弗赛德的农业学院、农业推广试验站与县农场办公室统一到一个体系之下。

• Stanley B. Freeborn served as the first provost from 1952 to 1958 and then as the first chancellor from 1958 to 1959 in anticipation of general-campus status, retiring after a single year and dying in the following year, while the two-year vocational programme that had lost its market closed with the last certificates awarded in 1960.斯坦利·B·弗里伯恩于 1952 至 1958 年任首任教务长，又在 1958 至 1959 年预任首任校长，为升格普通校区作准备；任职仅一年即退休，并于次年去世。与此同时，失去生源的两年制职业项目停办，最后一批证书于 1960 年颁发。

• In October 1959 the regents formally designated Davis a general campus and vested its chancellor with the autonomy enjoyed at Berkeley and Los Angeles, declaring that the College of Agriculture would remain the university's major centre of teaching and research in agriculture and setting an enrolment target of 6,000 students by 1970.1959 年 10 月，校董会正式把戴维斯定为普通校区，其校长获得与伯克利、洛杉矶同等的自主权；校董会同时声明农业学院将继续作为学校农业教学与研究的中心，并把 1970 年的招生目标定为 6,000 人。

• Emil M. Mrak, chancellor from 1959 to 1969, rode a bicycle among the orchards of his childhood in the Santa Clara Valley and worked hard to make the campus bicycle friendly, and after his retirement the administration building was named Mrak Hall in his honour, while a Graduate Division was created in 1961, the College of Engineering in 1962, the Law School in 1966 and the School of Medicine in 1968.1959 至 1969 年任校长的埃米尔·M·姆拉克，童年常在圣克拉拉谷的果园中骑自行车，上任后着力把校园打造为适合骑行的环境；他退休后，行政楼以姆拉克之名命名。同期学校新设研究生部（1961 年）、工程学院（1962 年）、法学院（1966 年）与医学院（1968 年）。

• A Native American studies programme started in 1969, one of the first at a major American university and later developed into a full department, and the campus also became the site of the 2011 pepper spray episode in which a police lieutenant sprayed seated demonstrators, followed by a public records disclosure in 2016 that showed the university had spent at least 175,000 dollars trying to scrub negative postings from the internet.1969 年，学校创办了美裔印第安人研究项目，是美国大型大学中最早的一批，后来发展成完整的系。2011 年的辣椒喷雾事件同样发生在这里，一名警官中尉向静坐的抗议者喷洒了辣椒喷雾；2016 年经公共记录申请披露，学校至少花费 17.5 万美元试图清除网上的负面帖子。

• In February 2017 Gary S. May was named the seventh chancellor after a nationwide search and took office on 1 August as the second African American to lead a University of California campus, and the university has since faced the 2022 teaching assistants strike that ended in a tentative agreement on 16 December and the 2023 Davis stabbings.2017 年 2 月，经全国遴选，加里·S·梅被任命为第七任校长，并于 8 月 1 日就职，成为第二位执掌加州大学校区的非裔人士。此后学校又经历了 2022 年助教罢课（12 月 16 日达成初步协议）与 2023 年戴维斯持刀伤人事件。

• The most recent structural change is the redevelopment of West Campus, where a 300 million dollar public-private partnership has created what is described as the largest zero net energy community in the United States, planned for 3,000 students, faculty and staff, turning land that had served agricultural research since the campus moved to Davis in 1906 into a residential and teaching district.近年最重要的结构性变化是西校区的再开发：校方通过一项 3 亿美元的公私合作项目，建成了被称为全美最大零净能耗社区的「西村」，规划容纳 3,000 名学生、教师与职员，把自 1906 年迁址以来一直用于农业研究的土地变成了居住与教学区。

Academics

• Undergraduate study is organised into four colleges, the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences founded in 1922, the College of Letters and Science founded in 1951, the College of Engineering founded in 1962 and the College of Biological Sciences founded in 2005, and the graduate and professional side adds the Graduate School of Management of 1981, the School of Education of 2002, the School of Law, the School of Medicine, the School of Veterinary Medicine and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing of 2009.本科教育由四个学院承担：1922 年成立的农业与环境科学学院、1951 年成立的文理学院、1962 年成立的工程学院与 2005 年成立的生物科学学院；研究生与职业教育方面则有 1981 年成立的管理研究生院、2002 年成立的教育学院、法学院、医学院、兽医学院，以及 2009 年成立的贝蒂·艾琳·穆尔护理学院。

• The university offers 102 undergraduate majors and more than 100 graduate programmes, and in the autumn of 2023 it taught 40,848 students, of whom 31,797 were undergraduates and 7,912 postgraduates, with 2,175 faculty members, and the budget for the 2024 financial year was 7.1 billion dollars.学校开设 102 个本科专业与一百多个研究生项目；2023 年秋季在校生为 40,848 人，其中本科生 31,797 人、研究生 7,912 人，教职人员 2,175 人；2024 财年的学校预算为 71 亿美元。

• The School of Veterinary Medicine is the largest veterinary school in the United States and has ranked first in the world veterinary subject ranking for five consecutive years from 2015 to 2019, and the Department of Viticulture and Enony has driven advances in winemaking now used by many Californian wineries, while the agricultural and resource economics programme is described by the university as top rated.兽医学院是美国规模最大的兽医学院，并在 2015 至 2019 年连续五年位居世界兽医学科排名第一；葡萄栽培与酿造学系推动的酿造技术已被加州众多酒庄采用；学校也把农业与资源经济学专业称为评级最高的学科。

• Students of animal science can work in the university's own dairy, meat processing plant, equestrian facility and experimental farm, students of the environmental horticulture and other botanical sciences have the university arboretum and acres of campus farmland at their disposal, and the design department is the only comprehensive academic design unit in the University of California system.动物学专业的学生可以直接在校内的奶牛场、肉类加工厂、马术设施与试验农场动手，环境园艺及其他植物科学专业的学生则可使用学校树木园与大片校园农田；设计系是加州大学系统内唯一的综合性设计专业建制。

• The Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts hosts the university symphony orchestra and cultural events, and a distinctive feature of graduate education is the graduate group, built on shared research interests rather than departments, through which the university offers more graduate groups than any other campus in the system.蒙达维表演艺术中心设有大学交响乐团并承办各类文化活动；研究生教育的一大特色是「研究生组」，它以共同的研究兴趣而非院系为组织基础，学校设立的研究生组数量在加州大学各校区中最多。

• Graduate education has been central for more than eighty years, beginning in the autumn of 1925 when twelve students received graduate degrees from the College of Agriculture through a partnership with the Berkeley graduate division, and the first graduate degrees were actually conferred at the Davis campus in the autumn of 1949.研究生教育在此已逾八十年：1925 年秋季，首批 12 名学生通过与伯克利研究生院合作、由农业学院授予研究生学位；戴维斯校区真正颁出的首批研究生学位则是在 1949 年秋季。

• In 1961 autonomous graduate divisions and graduate councils were established across the University of California to oversee programmes locally, and graduate study at Davis now runs over ninety programmes for more than 4,000 students from around the world, offering masters, doctoral and post-doctoral training.1961 年，加州大学各校区设立自治的研究生部与研究生委员会以实施本地管理；如今戴维斯的研究生教育覆盖九十多个项目，招收来自世界各地的四千多名学生，提供硕士、博士及博士后训练。

• The university is a member of the Association of American Universities and spends heavily on research, reporting 788.8 million dollars of research and development expenditure in the 2018 financial year, which ranked it thirtieth nationally, and 961 million dollars of external research awards and funding in the 2024 to 2025 financial year.学校是美国大学协会成员，在科研上投入巨大：2018 财年研发支出 7.888 亿美元，居全美第 30 位；2024 至 2025 财年获得的外部科研资助为 9.61 亿美元。

• Its faculty includes 23 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 14 of the National Academy of Engineering, 30 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 17 of the American Law Institute and five foreign members of the Royal Society, together with three Pulitzer Prize winners, a Guggenheim Fellow and three MacArthur Fellows.学校教师中有 23 位美国国家科学院院士、14 位美国国家工程院院士、30 位美国艺术与科学院院士、17 位美国法律学会成员与 5 位英国皇家学会外籍院士，另有 3 位普利策奖得主、1 位古根海姆研究员与 3 位麦克阿瑟学者。

• Research is organised through named platforms, among them the John Muir Institute of the Environment, which spans all colleges and professional schools, the MIND Institute for neurodevelopment disorders, the California National Primate Research Center, the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, the Center for Mind and Brain, the Center for Health and the Environment and the Bodega Marine Reserve on the northern California coast.科研依托一批具名平台展开，包括横跨所有学院与专业学院的环境学院穆尔研究院、专攻神经发育障碍的 MIND 研究院、加州国家灵长类研究中心、克罗克核实验室、脑与心智中心、健康与环境中心，以及位于北加州海岸的博德加海洋保护区。

• The campus operates a containment research facility certified at biosafety level three, a national primate research centre and a river-front laboratory inside a metre-scale nuclear magnetic resonance facility, and it installed its first supercomputer, Sirio, in 1991 and has run a second, Miztli, for scientific work since 2013.校园内设有一座通过三级生物安全认证的封闭研究设施、一个国家灵长类研究中心，以及一台核磁共振设施；学校 1991 年安装了首台超级计算机 Sirio，2013 年起又启用名为 Miztli 的第二台超算用于科学研究。

• Teaching runs on the quarter system, the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the College of Biological Sciences share much of their teaching with the College of Letters and Science, and the Department of Applied Science, founded and formerly chaired by the physicist Edward Teller, sits alongside departments of design, studio art, music, theatre and dance that give the campus one of the broadest arts offerings in the system.学校采用学季制运行，农业与环境科学学院、生物科学学院与文理学院共享大量教学；由物理学家爱德华·泰勒创办并曾任其主任的应用科学系，与设计、造型艺术、音乐、戏剧与舞蹈等系并存，使校园拥有了加州大学系统中最为宽广的艺术门类之一。

• Admissions to professional programmes is extremely selective, and in 2016 US News and World Report named the School of Medicine the sixth most competitive medical school in the United States with an acceptance rate of 2.8 per cent, while nationally the veterinary medicine programme ranked first, psychology twelfth and statistics thirteenth in the 2025 tables.专业项目的录取极为严格：2016 年美国新闻与世界报道把医学院列为全美录取竞争最激烈的第六名医学院，录取率仅 2.8%；在国内专业排名中，兽医学专业列第一、心理学列第十二、统计学列第十三。

• The university serves a notably diverse student body, with women at 58.4 per cent of undergraduates in the autumn of 2023 and Asian students at 31 per cent, Hispanic students at 25 per cent, white students at 21 per cent and foreign nationals at 13 per cent, while 32 per cent received a federal Pell grant and the university was redesignated a Black-Serving Institution in 2025.学校学生构成多样：2023 年秋季本科生中女性占 58.4%，亚裔占 31%，西班牙裔占 25%，白人占 21%，外国籍学生占 13%；32% 的学生领取联邦助学金；2025 年学校被认定为黑人服务型院校。

Campus

• The main campus covers more than 7,000 acres and is the largest by area in the University of California system, it lies about 15 miles west of Sacramento in the Central Valley beside Interstate 80, and although it carries the name of the city of Davis most of its land is technically in the unincorporated parts of Yolo and Solano counties, with the downtown of Davis only a few minutes walk from the main quad.主校区占地七千多英亩，是加州大学系统中面积最大的校区，位于中央谷地、距州府萨克拉门托以西约 15 英里，紧邻 80 号州际公路。校区虽以戴维斯市命名，但大部分土地在行政上属于约洛县与索拉诺县的未建制地区，戴维斯市中心距主方庭步行仅几分钟。

• The Quad is a large rectangular field that remains the historic geographic centre of campus life, with the Memorial Union on its northern side and Shields Library on its southern side, while the north-east corner of the campus holds the older core buildings, among them Wellman Hall, Mrak Hall, Hutchison Hall and the Social Sciences and Humanities building designed by Antoine Predock and nicknamed by students the Death Star.方庭是一片矩形大草坪，至今是校园生活的历史地理中心，北侧是纪念联盟，南侧是希尔兹图书馆；校园东北角集中着较早的核心建筑，包括韦尔曼楼、姆拉克楼、哈奇森楼，以及由安托万·普雷多克设计、被学生称作「死亡之星」的社会科学与人文大楼。

• Several campus buildings carry the names of people who shaped the institution, Shields Library was named for Peter J. Shields in 1972, Mrak Hall was named for chancellor Emil M. Mrak on his retirement in 1969, and the Silo Union, one of the earliest structures on the farm, survives beside the newer Science Lecture Hall and Science Laboratory Building.校园里多座建筑以塑造学校的人物命名：希尔兹图书馆 1972 年以彼得·J·希尔兹命名，姆拉克楼于 1969 年以其任内的校长埃米尔·M·姆拉克命名；农场时期最早的建筑之一筒仓联盟楼，至今与新建的科学讲堂和科学实验楼并存。

• Seven public sculptures known as the Egghead Series stand around the campus, all carved by Robert Arneson, who taught at Davis from 1962 to 1991, and they include Bookhead in the library plaza, Yin and Yang at the fine arts complex and Eye on Mrak outside the administration building, while the C.N. Gorman Museum specialises in indigenous and Native American art and the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art focuses on Bay Area figurative, Pop and Funk artists.校园内散布着七座被称为「蛋头系列」的公共雕塑，全部出自 1962 至 1991 年在戴维斯任教的罗伯特·阿内森之手，包括图书馆广场上的《书》、美术区的《阴阳》与行政楼外的《凝眸》；C·N·戈尔曼博物馆专藏原住民艺术，曼内蒂·施雷姆艺术博物馆则聚焦湾区具象、波普与当代实验艺术。

• West Campus, which for most of the university's history served as agricultural research land, now holds the university airport, foundation plant services, the California National Primate Research Center and a biosafety level three containment facility, and its classes in plant science and entomology take students to Putah Creek to sample fish for parasites and into the field for forensic entomology projects.西校区在 学校大部分历史时期都是农业研究用地，如今设有大学机场、基础植物服务处、加州国家灵长类研究中心与一座三级生物安全封闭实验设施；植物科学与昆虫学系的课堂会把学生带到普塔溪采集鱼类寄生虫，并到野外开展法医昆虫学项目。

• South of the campus core lies the 100-acre university arboretum with 3.5 miles of paved paths, 4,000 tree specimens, Putah Creek and Lake Spafford, and a multi-year waterway enhancement project that began on 10 March 2017 completed its first phase in 2018 and its second phase in November 2024, a year ahead of schedule.校园核心区以南是占地 100 英亩的学校树木园，内有 3.5 英里铺装步道、4,000 株树标本、普塔溪与斯帕福德湖。一项自 2017 年 3 月 10 日启动的多年期水道改造工程于 2018 年完成第一期，第二期于 2024 年 11 月竣工，比计划提前一年。

• The library system comprises the Peter J. Shields Library, a physics and engineering library, the Carlson Health Sciences Library and the medical centre library in Sacramento, with more than 3.5 million volumes between them, and Shields Library, which has been rebuilt several times in three different architectural styles, is the main student study building, complete with a 24-hour reading room.图书馆系统包括彼得·J·希尔兹图书馆、物理与工程图书馆、卡尔森健康科学图书馆以及萨克拉门托的医疗中心图书馆，合计藏书逾 350 万册；希尔兹图书馆历经多次建设与扩建，呈现三种不同建筑风格，是学生主要自习场所，并设有 24 小时阅览室。

• Student housing operates 23 residence halls in 29 buildings grouped into three areas named Segundo, Tercero and Cuarto and accommodates more than 11,000 students, the Green at West Village opened in 2021 mainly for community college transfer students who are guaranteed housing for two years, and the Orchard Park neighbourhood opened in the autumn of 2023 to replace the ageing Solano Park apartments and to house families.学生住宿部门运营三个片区——第二区、第三区与第四区——共 23 栋宿舍楼、29 幢建筑，安置一万一千多名学生。2021 年开放的西村绿地社区主要面向社区学院转学生并承诺两年住宿；2023 年秋季开放的果园公园社区取代了老旧的索拉诺公园公寓，主要安置家庭学生。

• Transport is unusually student run, since Unitrans has operated since 1968 with London double decker buses and is believed to be the only general purpose transit system in the United States running vintage double decks in daily service, the campus police patrol by bicycle, Davis is one of the busiest stations on the Amtrak Capitol Corridor, and the shuttle to the Berkeley campus was discontinued in September 2025.校园交通极具学生自办特色：Unitrans 公交自 1968 年起运营，使用伦敦双层巴士，被认为是全美唯一在日常线路上运营老式双层巴士的常规公交系统；校园警察骑车巡逻；戴维斯站也是 Amtrak 首都走廊线最繁忙的车站之一；通往伯克利校区的班车已于 2025 年 9 月停运。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university places 137th with a score of 62.7, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places it 65th, and the US News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026 to 2027 places it 96th, which keeps Davis in the second tier of the world's leading universities while it remains one of the strongest public campuses in the United States.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中该校以 62.7 分列第 137 位，在泰晤士高等教育 2027 年世界大学排名中列第 65 位，在 US News 2026 至 2027 年最佳全球大学排名中列第 96 位；戴维斯由此稳居世界顶尖大学的第一梯队，同时仍是全美最强的公立校区之一。

• Nationally the university was tied 32nd among national universities in the US News tables, 26th in the Washington Monthly national rankings and 12th in the Wall Street Journal college rankings, and Forbes placed it 43rd, so that a school founded as a farm has become a member of what Americans call the Public Ivies.在国内排名中，美国新闻与世界报道把该校并列列为全国第 32 位，《华盛顿月刊》列第 26 位，《华尔街日报》列第 12 位，《福布斯》列第 43 位——一所由农场起步的学校已成为美国人所谓「公立常春藤」的一员。

• Earlier world editions place the university tied 114th in the 2024 QS World University Rankings, tied 62nd in the 2022 Times Higher Education table and tied 96th in the 2023 US News global list, with the Academic Ranking of World Universities placing it in the 101 to 150 band, and it is classified as a research university of very high research activity.在此前各版世界排名中，学校在 2024 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 114 位，在 2022 年泰晤士高等教育榜单中并列第 62 位，在 2023 年 US News 全球排名中并列第 96 位；学术论文世界大学排名将其列在 101 至 150 名区间。学校被归类为科研活动极高的研究型大学。

• The university's veterinary medicine programme ranked first nationally and first in the world from 2015 to 2019, and in the global subject tables it placed 13th in agricultural sciences, 22nd in environmental and ecological science and 39th in food science and technology, which reflects how completely the agricultural and environmental sciences still shape the institution.学校的兽医学专业在全国排名第一，并在 2015 至 2019 年连续五年位居世界第一；全球学科排名中，农业科学列第 13 位，环境与生态科学列第 22 位，食品科学与技术列第 39 位，足见农业与环境科学至今仍深刻塑造着这所学校。

• Hard honours associated with the campus include two Nobel Prizes, one Fields Medal, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, three Pulitzer Prizes, three MacArthur Fellowships and a National Medal of Science, and no Turing Award laureate is recorded among its alumni or faculty, the Nobel distinction resting on the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to the alumnus Charles M. Rice for the discovery of hepatitis C virus.与该校相关的硬性荣誉包括两项诺贝尔奖、一个菲尔兹奖、一枚总统自由勋章、三项普利策奖、三项麦克阿瑟学者基金与一枚国家科学奖章；校友与教师中并无图灵奖得主记录。诺贝尔奖方面，2020 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖授予该校校友查尔斯·M·赖斯，以表彰他发现丙型肝炎病毒。

• In the OpenAlex database the Davis campus is registered under the identifier I84218800 with 306,374 works and 32,566,642 citations, a scale of recorded output comparable to universities ranked well above it, and the campus also spent 961 million dollars on externally funded research in the 2024 to 2025 financial year.在 OpenAlex 数据库中，戴维斯校区的机构标识为 I84218800，收录作品 306,374 篇、被引 32,566,642 次；这一收录产出规模与排名远高于它的大学相当，2024 至 2025 财年学校还获得 9.61 亿美元的外部科研经费。

• The university has more than 260,000 living graduates, and its research reputation rests on the combination of a national primate centre, a biosafety level three laboratory, a nuclear magnetic resonance facility and agricultural research stations, which together explain why more than a quarter of the scientific papers published by Mexican scholars, a similar pattern of concentration, appear from a single institution in that country.学校拥有超过 26 万名在世校友，其科研声誉建立在国家灵长类研究中心、三级生物安全实验室、核磁共振设施与农业试验站设施的组合之上；这种高度集中的模式在别国也很典型，例如墨西哥学者发表的科研论文中有四分之一以上出自该国一所大学。

• Research spending ranks the campus thirtieth nationally at 788.8 million dollars in the 2018 financial year, its endowment stood at 770.4 million dollars in 2024 and its total budget for the 2024 financial year was 7.1 billion dollars, and the university has been designated a Hispanic-Serving and then a Black-Serving institution while keeping a research profile of the first rank.2018 财年学校研发支出 7.888 亿美元，居全美第 30 位；2024 年捐赠基金为 7.704 亿美元，2024 财年总预算 71 亿美元。学校先后被认定为西班牙裔服务型与黑人服务型院校，同时保持着第一流的科研水平。

Student life

• The university motto is the Latin phrase Fiat lux, translated as let there be light, a biblical allusion that suits an institution founded on the experimental determination of how much light a seedling needs in order to grow.校训是拉丁语「Fiat lux」，英译为「要有光」，这一出自《圣经》的暗喻，与一所建立在「幼苗究竟需要多少光照才能生长」这类实验之上的学校颇为契合。

• The undergraduate student government, the Associated Students of the University of California Davis, runs on an annual budget of 22.2 million dollars and is among the best funded student governments in the United States, with executive, legislative and judicial branches, and it operates the student run Coffee House restaurant and the Unitrans bus system as well as employing thousands of students across its units.本科学生自治组织「加州大学戴维斯分校学生会」的年度预算为 2,220 万美元，是全美经费最充足的学生政府之一，设有执行、立法与司法三个分支；它还运营学生自办的咖啡屋与 Unitrans 公交系统，并在各职能部门雇用数千名学生。

• More than eight hundred registered student organisations range from political clubs to professional societies and language groups, Picnic Day is the largest student-run event in the United States, drawing parade, dance competition, a magic show staged by the chemistry department, dachshund races and a battle of the bands, and the Aggie Pack is the largest student-run school spirit organisation in the country.学校有八百多个注册学生组织，从政治社团到专业学会与语言社团一应俱全；一年一度的野餐日是全美规模最大的学生自办活动，内容包括游行、舞蹈比赛、化学系表演的魔术秀、腊肠犬赛跑与乐队对抗赛；阿吉家族则是全美最大的学生自办助威团体。

• The student radio station KDVS, on 90.3 FM, began operations on 1 February 1964 from the laundry room of an all-male residence hall, won renown for interviewing Angela Davis and for a live call-in programme with the governor of California, Ronald Reagan, in 1969, while the student newspaper The California Aggie first appeared in 1915 as the Weekly Agricola and took its present name in 1922.学生电台 KDVS（90.3 兆赫）于 1964 年 2 月 1 日在一栋男生宿舍的洗衣房开播，因采访安吉拉·戴维斯以及 1969 年与加州州长罗纳德·里根的现场连线节目而闻名；学生报《加州阿吉人报》1915 年以《农事周刊》创刊，1922 年改为现名。

• The California Aggie Marching Band plays at football games, and the Aggies compete in the first division of the NCAA, mainly in the Mountain West Conference, with football in the Football Championship Subdivision of the Big Sky Conference, which makes Davis one of only three University of California campuses to field a football team, and the colours are Aggie blue, Pantone 295, and gold.加州阿吉人行进乐队在橄榄球比赛中演奏；阿吉人队参加 NCAA 第一级别赛事，主要属于山地西部联盟，橄榄球队则属大天空联盟的冠军锦标赛分区——这使戴维斯成为仅有的三所设有橄榄球队的加州大学校区之一。校色为阿吉蓝（潘通 295 号）与金色。

• Social fraternities and sororities have been part of the campus since 1913 and about eight per cent of undergraduates are involved, with 13 fraternities in the Interfraternity Council and 11 sororities in the Panhellenic Council, and the local chapter of Alpha Gamma Rho, established on 1 May 1923 as Kappa Tau, is the first continuously running national fraternity on site.社交兄弟会与姐妹会自 1913 年起就在校园中存在，约有百分之八的本科生参与，其中男生会有 13 个、女生会有 11 个；1923 年 5 月 1 日以 Kappa Tau 之名成立的地方分会 Alpha Gamma Rho，是校内在校时间最长的全国性兄弟会。

• The university has committed itself to sustainability, operating twenty buildings certified under the LEED system including the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, the first brewery, winery or food processing facility in the world to reach platinum level, and the Tahoe Environmental Research Center, one of only five laboratories anywhere to do so, and it earned an A minus on the 2011 College Sustainability Report Card.学校持续投入可持续建设，拥有二十座取得绿色建筑认证的建筑，其中包括罗伯特·蒙达维葡萄酒与食品科学研究院——它是全球首个达到铂金级的啤酒厂、葡萄酒厂或食品加工设施——以及太浩环境研究中心，全球仅有五座实验室达到同样等级；学校在 2011 年高校可持续发展评级报告中获得 A 减。

Notable people

• Peter J. Shields, secretary of the California Agricultural Society, was the political champion of the university farm and is officially counted as the founder of the campus, and the local farmer and legislator George Washington Pierce Jr. supplied the site rules that confined the farm to the one small town of Davisville, though he was largely forgotten because he died before the campus became a university.加州农业协会秘书彼得·J·希尔兹是大学农场最有力的政治推动者，官方把他奉为学校的创办人；农场主兼议员乔治·华盛顿·皮尔斯二世则给出了把农场限定在戴维斯维尔这一小镇的选址规则。不过由于他在学校升格为大学之前便已去世，日后几乎被人遗忘。

• Stanley B. Freeborn served as the first provost of the Davis campus from 1952 and as its first chancellor from 1958 to 1959, and Emil M. Mrak, chancellor from 1959 to 1969, gave the campus its second growth spurt and lent his name to Mrak Hall, while Harry R. Wellman became the university's first vice-president for agricultural sciences in May 1952.斯坦利·B·弗里伯恩于 1952 年起担任戴维斯校区首任教务长，并于 1958 至 1959 年任首任校长；1959 至 1969 年任校长的埃米尔·M·姆拉克推动校区第二次规模扩张，校政楼以他命名；1952 年 5 月，哈里·R·韦尔曼成为加州大学首任农业科学副校长。

• Academic staff include Alan Taylor, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian who writes on the American West, and Wayne Thiebaud, the painter of cakes and urban landscapes who taught at Davis for decades, and the university's more than three hundred and fifty year old graduate division has produced graduates who became leading scientists in plant genetics.教师队伍中有两次获普利策奖的历史学家艾伦·泰勒，他的研究聚焦美国西部；还有以蛋糕与城市景观画作闻名的画家韦恩·蒂博，他在此任教数十年。学校已有三百五十多年历史的研究生教育，也培养出多位成为植物遗传学领军人物的毕业生。

• Gurdev S. Khush, the rice breeder and geneticist who spent decades at the International Rice Research Institute and was awarded the 2004 Wolf Prize in Agriculture and the World Food Prize, and Steven Tanksley, who shared the 2004 Wolf Prize in Agriculture with Yuan Longping and became one of the youngest members of the United States National Academy of Sciences, are listed among the university's distinguished graduates.古德夫·S·库什曾在国际水稻研究所工作数十年，是水稻育种与遗传学家，获 2004 年沃尔夫农业奖与世界粮食奖；史蒂芬·坦斯利与袁隆平共同获得 2004 年沃尔夫农业奖，并成为最年轻的美国国家科学院院士之一。两人均被列入该校杰出毕业生。

• Charles M. Rice, a graduate of the university, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2020 for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus and its replication cycle, work begun while he was at Rockefeller University, and his return to Davis as a professor helped build the school's virology programme into one of national standing.该校校友查尔斯·M·赖斯因发现丙型肝炎病毒及其复制周期，获 2020 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖；相关研究始于他在洛克菲勒大学任职期间。他后来回到戴维斯任教授，帮助学校把病毒学建设成全国水准的学科。

• Gary S. May, chancellor since 1 August 2017, came from the deanship of the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is the second African American to head a University of California campus, a distinction he shares with Michael Drake, who went on to run the University of California system and Ohio State University.2017 年 8 月 1 日起任校长的加里·S·梅此前是佐治亚理工学院工程学院院长，是第二位执掌加州大学校区的非裔人士；与他同为非裔校长的迈克尔·德雷克后来主持加州大学系统并出任俄亥俄州立大学校长。

• Political and public figures who studied at Davis include Anna Escobedo Cabral, United States Treasurer from 2005 to 2009, Ann M. Veneman, United States Secretary of Agriculture from 2001 to 2005, Heather Fargo, mayor of Sacramento from 2000 to 2008, Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice of California, and John S. Watson, chief executive of Chevron.在戴维斯就读过的政界与公共人物包括 2005 至 2009 年任美国财政部长的安娜·埃斯科贝多·卡布拉尔、2001 至 2005 年任美国农业部长的安·维尼曼、2000 至 2008 年任萨克拉门托市长的海瑟·法高、加州首席大法官塔尼·坎蒂尔-萨科耶，以及雪佛龙首席执行官约翰·S·沃森。

• Chinese and Chinese-descended members of the university community include Chuan-min Guan, the economist who serves as president of National Taiwan University and as an academician of the Academia Sinica, Alfred Chuang, president and chief executive of BEA Systems, Francis Lee, chairman and chief executive of Synaptics, C. J. Jen, the deputy secretary of agriculture who served under Ann Veneman, and Zhang Qifa, the plant geneticist and dean of the life sciences college at Huazhong Agricultural University.与华人相关的校友与学者包括：经济学家、现任国立台湾大学校长兼中央研究院院士的管中闵；BEA 系统总裁兼执行长庄思浩；Synaptics 董事长兼首席执行官李飞鹏；曾任美国农业部副部长的任筑山；以及作物遗传育种与分子生物学家、华中农业大学生命科学技术学院院长张启发。

• The university's writers include Bei Dao, who published in the journal Chuang zaohui and taught creative writing at Davis in later years, and the actor Matthew Moy, while among its astronauts are Stephen K. Robinson, who flew on four space shuttle missions and commanded a mission to the International Space Station, and his colleague Katherine Ross.学校的作家群体包括曾在戴维斯任教创意写作的诗人北岛，以及演员 Matthew Moy；宇航员方面有执行过四次航天飞机任务、并指挥过一次国际空间站任务的斯蒂芬·K·罗宾逊，以及他的同事凯瑟琳·罗斯。

• Business graduates include the entrepreneur Jason Lucash and the American-British economist DeAnne Julius, chair of the British government's council on sustainable development, and the university's more than 260,000 living alumni include farmers, legislators and researchers from California agriculture, which is the field in which the campus was founded and the field it still leads.商科毕业生中包括企业家杰森·卢卡什，以及美籍英籍经济学家迪安妮·朱莉叶斯，她曾主持英国政府的可持续发展委员会。学校超过 26 万名在世校友，涵盖加州农业的农场主、立法者与研究者——农业正是这所学校的创校之基，也是它至今仍领先的领域。

• Among the university's American political alumni are London Breed, mayor of San Francisco, Joe Krovoza, mayor of Davis, and Darrell Steinberg, mayor of Sacramento from 2016, and the international alumni include Apolonio Pacheco, president of Costa Rica from 2002 to 2006, and Alfonso Portillo, president of Guatemala from 2000 to 2004, who studied agricultural science at Davis.学校的美国政界校友包括旧金山市市长伦敦·布里德、戴维斯市前市长乔·克罗沃扎，以及 2016 年起任萨克拉门托市长的达雷尔·斯坦伯格；外国校友包括 2002 至 2006 年任哥斯达黎加总统的阿贝罗·帕切科，以及 2000 至 2004 年任危地马拉总统、在戴维斯就读农业科学的阿方索·波蒂略。