Cal Aggie Alumni Association

A record-breaking year of generosity is making an impact across every corner of UC Davis.

UC Davis received more than $676 million in philanthropic support during the past fiscal year, the largest fundraising total in university history. These gifts will expand opportunities for students, advance groundbreaking research, strengthen patient care and help shape the future of UC Davis for generations to come.

📸: Mike Bannasch / UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine

🔗: https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-record-676m-fundraising-year-marks-new-era-philanthropy
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Image Description: Joan Weill stands at a UC Davis podium smiling as she speaks into a microphone during an outdoor celebration. Beside her, Dean Mark Stetter holds a small dog named Sweet Pea, who looks up toward him. Philanthropist Sanford I. Weill sits smiling nearby. Trees fill the background, and a blue UC Davis podium banner with the university seal is displayed prominently in the foreground.

At Skyheart Sanctuary, Associate Professor Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez is creating a place where rescued farm animals find lifelong care and the people who spend time with them discover healing, connection and community.

📸: Gregory Urquiaga / UC Davis

🔗: https://www.ucdavis.edu/magazine/sanctuary-rescued-animals
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Image Descriptions:
1: Associate Professor Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez kneels beside Randy, a miniature horse, on a dirt path at Skyheart Sanctuary. She smiles at the camera while gently holding Randy's halter. A fenced pasture and trees stretch into the background.
2: Wearing a cowboy hat, Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez sits on a wooden stump inside a pig enclosure at Skyheart Sanctuary while three rescued pigs gather nearby. A colorful mural covers the back wall, with trees and ranch fencing visible above it.
3: Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez kneels next to Randy, a miniature horse, outside a wooden barn at Skyheart Sanctuary. Randy faces the camera while Calisi-Rodríguez smiles upward, holding the lead rope as sunlight filters through nearby trees.

What starts as a class project can end up on tap across Davis.

Bananaweizen, the 2026 Iron Brew winner, was created by a team of UC Davis students in FST 102B Practical Malting and Brewing before being scaled up and brewed commercially at Dunloe Brewing in Davis.

🔗: https://rmi.ucdavis.edu/news/bananaweizen-beer-behind-2026-iron-brew-win
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Image Descriptions:
1: Three colorful cans of Bananaweizen beer with an Arboretum and bridge illustration beside a glass of beer on a garden patio.
2: Four student brewers standing in front of a wooden sign with "DUNLOE" mounted on a brick wall indoors.
3: Three student brewers looking at a large stainless steel brewing tank inside a brewery with Dunloe Brewing's co-owner pointing into the open tank.