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Looking Back at 40 Years

Originally funded for only five issues 鈥 enough to commemorate the campus鈥檚 75th anniversary 鈥 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Magazine was immediately popular with readers for the news of the day and nostalgic looks back at university milestones. For our 40th anniversary, we delved into our archives to learn more about our own history.

Pen and ink illustration of a time capsule exploding open, and a swirl of objects flies around: a cow, London bus, penny farthing bicycle, dachshund, squirrel, turkey, square tomato, water tower, palm tree, picnic blanket and hippie-style flowers.
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Connecting the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Community

1983 was another time, entirely. But some things remain the same, including the desire to connect members of our community and elicit pride in the great work of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis. To mark 40 years of publication, the current staff of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Magazine decided to look back at previous issues and share a little of what we鈥檝e learned along the way. Here are 40 of them.

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We鈥檝e come a long way.

The first issue of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Magazine, dated summer 1983, was the product of four years of planning and research. Originally funded for only five issues, the new publication aimed to commemorate 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis鈥 75th anniversary, and the yearlong celebration that was planned.

But within that first issue, the editors and writers put together a lot more. In addition to the first of a five-part feature on the Diamond Jubilee celebration, the premiere pages offered up research highlights, campus news, sports stories, reports on alumni and a look at the student body at the time.

As Dennis J. Gould, then-president of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association, wrote in that issue, 鈥淚t is our intention for 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Magazine to embody and reflect the image of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis as one of the nation鈥檚 leading institutions of higher education.鈥 This is still part of the mission of this publication today.

We鈥檝e made a lot of changes.

Over the years, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Magazine evolved.

For a few years, our office actually produced two different versions throughout the year: newspaper 鈥渢abloids鈥 and glossy 鈥渇eature鈥 editions. In 1990, these were merged into the longer magazine you see today. A new look debuted in spring 1991.

A reader survey guided the redesign. Readers said the magazine was 鈥渢rying too hard,鈥 鈥渢oo snooty鈥 and 鈥渢oo scholarly.鈥 Overall, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Magazine has always endeavored to share the news that is important to the campus community.

Class Notes also debuted in spring 1991, but as you will notice in this issue, we no longer include them, opting to use our real estate for more articles.

In 2003, we commemorated the magazine鈥檚 20th anniversary with a collage of covers on the cover of the summer issue, and an editor鈥檚 note by Teri Bachman said, in part, 鈥渟ome important things have remained the same, including our mission to keep you informed about the Davis campus, to keep you connected and to keep you entertained.鈥

We redesigned again in 2015. I arrived at the same time, and we continue to focus our efforts on sharing alumni, research and institutional news in every issue. A new website debuted in 2018, and we also now write stories year-round with only a portion going in print. Find these at our website, magazine.ucdavis.edu.

Our online archives go back as far as 1996 and can be found at .

Our readers are very engaged.

As the readership decreased over the years, those who followed the magazine鈥檚 journey remained active and committed to the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis community. In 2019, we launched a subscription model, asking readers to pay to continue to read.

We don鈥檛 take that lightly and continue to strive for excellence with every issue. We hope you enjoy this look back at our history and some of the unique people and stories that have made each issue worthy of reading.


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We saw it coming

We predicted remote work.

鈥淎ll the polls have shown that Americans do not like dense cities and, if given their choice, prefer to work in the suburbs or in a small town. In the future, this may be made possible by computer technology, which would allow the decentralization of most economic activity. We could then have relatively isolated individuals or families living on fairly large pieces of land, communicating with the employment world via computer,鈥 said Lyn H. Lofland, then-professor of sociology. (Winter 1985-86)

We saw the potential risk of synthetic drugs.

Gary L. Henderson, then-associate professor of pharmacology in the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis School of Medicine, predicted that several new drugs just beginning to be abused might make headlines in the years to come. Henderson was one of the first to recognize that derivatives of fentanyl were being illegally produced and abused as a heroin substitute. He called them 鈥渄esigner drugs鈥 and the term quickly caught on. His on-campus laboratory was one of the few in the U.S. that could detect fentanyl in body fluids. In 1983-84, the drug was killing a user a week. 鈥淭he use of these synthetic drugs will probably spread throughout the world,鈥 Henderson predicted. (Jan-Feb 1989)

 We took early note of wildfire dangers.

鈥淢any of our national parks have been so protected from fire that we now find well over 100 years of fuel buildup, instead of the limited growth that would be more expected under more natural conditions,鈥 said Kerry Dawson, then-professor of environmental design and director of the Arboretum. (May-June 1989)

We saw the need for a faculty with more women and people of color.

鈥淚 see the next decade not as a problem but as an opportunity 鈥 a significant opportunity to reshape the composition of the faculty so that it mirrors society,鈥 said Carol A. Cartwright, then-vice chancellor for Academic Affairs. 鈥淭he faces of excellence do not look like they did in the past.鈥 (Nov-Dec 1989)

We helped usher in reality television.

MTV came to 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis in 2002 with Sorority Life, an original series that followed several undergrads during the pledge process. Two more seasons ensued at other schools, as well as a spinoff, Fraternity Life. (Summer 2002)


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We鈥檝e always walked down memory lane.

Every generation has a curiosity for what came before it, and those of us who lived it like to look back. Nostalgia has been an important part of the pages of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Magazine, which has chronicled the history of the Coffee House, Picnic Day and much more. As a result, the magazine has documented much of the early history that can be forgotten as the next generation moves in. Coffee House (Winter 1994) Picnic Day (Spring 2014)


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Reporting the timely stories

We reported on fashion.

Blue jeans, corduroys, flannel shirts and Doc Martens were the chosen favorites among students, according to a photo feature in 1994. Though we don鈥檛 do much fashion reporting these days, we can say that with 鈥90s fashion seeing a big revival now, the campus fashion today doesn鈥檛 look much different. (Winter 1994)

We saw technology change rapidly.

From professors allowing students to submit papers via the computer, to students using the phone to register for classes, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Magazine has documented changing technology that has affected our community and changed how we do business.

新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis helped save Mono Lake.

Students, faculty and alumni played prominent roles in the 20-year Mono Lake story. Water from the lake had been diverted to Los Angeles, which in turn created extensive environmental damage and threatened to turn the lake dry. Starting in the 鈥70s, student researchers identified key issues at the heart of the problem. They helped form the Mono Lake Committee, which got several national environmental groups interested in the cause. (Winter 1994)

Aggies are ideas people

A vaccine for Lyme disease.

We reported a new defense against Lyme disease, a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks. A vaccine, invented by Stephen Barthold 鈥67, D.V.M. 鈥69, then-director of the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Center for Comparative Medicine, and colleagues, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in December 1999, and sold under the brand name Lymerix. The manufacturer discontinued the drug in 2002, citing insufficient consumer demand. (Fall 1999)

A test for 鈥渒iller鈥 bees.

A genetic test developed at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis allowed scientists to distinguish Africanized 鈥渒iller鈥 bees from those naturally present in California and to track their progress across California. Entomologist Robert Page, M.S. 鈥77, Ph.D. 鈥80, and colleagues developed a DNA fingerprinting test to distinguish 鈥淓uropean鈥 or 鈥淓gyptian鈥 varieties from the Africanized bees and to look at the spread of the African genotypes into California. Tracking the spread of Africanized wild bees is important for the beekeeping industry. 鈥淭hese are not fun bees,鈥 Page said. (Winter 2001)

Tracking Pet health.

Holly Ganz, Ph.D. 鈥04, was working in a lab at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis in 2015 when she launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to study the microbiology of cats. Since then, her company, Animal Biome, has expanded to offer a full assortment of dog and cat products aimed at a healthy gut. (Fall/Winter 2018鈥19)


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We鈥檝e covered the campus鈥檚 expansion.

The campus footprint has changed a lot over the past 40 years. We鈥檝e documented the growth, which has included top-tier arts venues like the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, proposed back in 1996 by then-Chancellor Larry N. Vanderhoef, along with a future museum (now the Manetti Shrem Museum) and a recital hall (now the Ann E. Pitzer Center). (Spring 1996)

Some buildings have already become iconic, such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Building 鈥 dubbed the 鈥淒eath Star鈥 for its mazelike design, announced in fall 1992, and on the cover of the spring 1995 issue. Housing has been a vital addition over the years, and the new development at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis West Village also made our cover in winter 2012. See page 14 for the latest coverage of places on campus.

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