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    HCD News
  • HCD Masters student Libby O'Sullivan presents Grow & Buy Local marketing plan to the Sacramento Farm Bureau.
    [Elk Grove Citizen] ~ 11-10-09
  • Psychiatrist-Philanthropist Gives $1 Million for Infancy Studies.
    [UC Davis News] ~ 10-27-09
  • HCD Assistant Professor Amanda Guyer's exciting work is featured in the New York Times Magazine.
    ["Understanding the Anxious Mind"] ~ 9-29-09
  • HCD Assistant Professor Ryan Galt has been awarded a research grant from the Hellman Family Foundation in San Francisco for his research project, "Sustainable Food Networks in California's Central Valley"
    [UC Davis Dateline] ~ 9-25-09
  • HCD faculty members, Chris Benner, Ryan Galt, and Jonathan London, are in the news.
    [Sacramento Bee, "My View: UC Davis Strike"] ~ 9-23-09
  • CRD alumnus and Iowa State faculty, Gerado Sandoval, has been awarded the 2009 Barclay Giibs Jones Award for Best Dissertation in Planning from the American Collediate Schools of Planning.
    [ISU News Release] ~ 9-18-09
  • HCD is recruiting two faculty positions: 1) an Endowed Chair on infancy; and 2) a Cooperative Extension Specialist in Youth Development. ~ 9-9-09
  • Lenna Ontai, a Cooperative Extension specialist of HCD, has received a 2009 ANR Distinguished Service Award for her outstanding teamwork on the EatFit nutrition education program, which aims to promote healthy eating behavior among adolescents. ...More ~ 5-19-09
  • HCD Professor Rand Conger's research was recently featured in an article entitled "Tools for Tough Times" in the Monitor on Psychology, a newsletter [Vol. 40, No. 1, Jan. 2009] published by the American Psychological Association. The article describes the work Professor Conger and his research team have been doing in Iowa and California, and discusses the implications for impacts of the current economic downturn on families and children. Professors Rand Conger and Katherine Conger have also served as advisors for the Sesame Workshop organization which is developing a television special, in partnership with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as well as outreach resources designed to help families and children cope with economic hardship. ~ 1-31-09

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Mission

The Human and Community Development Department

(College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)

offers a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate programs, internships, and outreach programs. Majors are offered in Community and Regional Development, Human Development, and International Agricultural Development.

Community Development is concerned with the study of communities, and the people in them. It focuses on the community and organizational development, the role of culture and ethnicity in shaping community life, and the ways that knowledge can be used to solve social problems and improve the quality of life.

Human Development explores the developmental process in humans throughout the life cycle. Biological, cognitive, and personality/sociocultural aspects of development are studied.

The goal of International Agricultural Development is to improve food production, nutrition, marketing, and health in less technically advanced countries. Students in this major are trained in technical areas of agriculture that can be applied to the problems of world hunger and health.

    Upcoming Seminars   (11/21 - 12/05)

  • Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled and the Built Environment
  • Deb Niemeier, Environmental Engineering, UC Davis

  • Wednesday, Dec 02, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • 3201 Hart
  • Making Connections
  • Eve Gruntfest, University of Oklahoma

  • Wednesday, Dec 02, 4:10pm - 6:30pm
  • 146 Olson Hall