Best of CASE District VII Award
 

Institution: University of California, Davis

Title of entry: Grocery Shopping Without UC Davis Research

About this entry: Federal research funding is increasingly scrutinized and as an R1 level research institution, it’s critical to our mission to demonstrate research’s impact on everyday life. As a part of our larger, “From Labs to Lives” campaign, we wanted to highlight the breadth and depth of research that happens across the UC Davis enterprise to a variety of stakeholders, including the general public to help with the public perception of importance of research. This video was a part of a campus-wide, campaign takeover day, held on October 15, 2025, engaging students and the broader public.

As the nation’s top agricultural school, UC Daivs has decades long research that has resulted in real world impacts in food, thus creating the basis for this video. Using UC Davis’ research breakthroughs and advancements in agriculture, we created a script to demonstrate how integral this research is to a routine grocery store trip. Without dedicated research in agriculture, a trip to the grocery store could be very different than it is today.