The V&E Department combines the sciences of viticulture and enology
in a single research and teaching unit that encompasses all of the
scientific disciplines that impact grape growing and winemaking.
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology
information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in
computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome
data, and disseminates information.
A
U.S.-based, international organization, Conservation International (CI)
is a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation under Section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code. CI applies innovations in science, economics,
policy and community participation to protect the Earth's richest
regions of plant and animal diversity in the biodiversity hotspots,
high-biodiversity wilderness areas as well as important marine regions
around the globe. With headquarters in Washington, D.C., CI works in
more than 40 countries on four continents.
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants,
animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on
Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
"For those whose dorm rooms rang with the voices on those albums through
the late '60s and early '70s, Firesign Theatre needs no introduction.
But for the uninitiated (and the younger): Meet Firesign Theatre, which
isn’t a theater at all. It’s the four-man comedy troupe of Phil Austin,
Phil Proctor, Peter Bergman and David Ossman (all of them born under
astrological "fire signs")." from NPR
UC Davis Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
Innovative
and intelligent, Sacramento's favorite weekly publication
has long been the Sacramento News & Review. In fact,
the News & Review is Sacramento's second largest
newspaper, so its readers are as diverse as Sacramento
itself.
The Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking aim to improve
instruction in primary and secondary schools, colleges and
universities. We offer conferences and professional development
programs, emphasizing assessment, research, instructional strategies,
socratic questioning,critical reading and writing, higher order
thinking, quality enhancement, and competency standards.
The New Criterion, founded in 1982 by
the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel
Lipman, is a monthly review of the arts and intellectual life. Written
with great verve, clarity, and wit, The New Criterion has emerged as
America's foremost voice of critical dissent in the culture
wars. A staunch defender of the values of high culture, The New
Criterion is also an articulate scourge of artistic mediocrity
and intellectual mendacity wherever they are found: in the
universities, the art galleries, the media, the concert halls,
the theater, and elsewhere. Published monthly from September
through June, The New Criterion brings together a wide range of
young and established critics whose common aim is to bring you
the most incisive criticism being written today.