[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 448 Engrossed in House (EH)]

H. Res. 448

                In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

                                                          May 18, 2009.
Whereas the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), was authorized by 
        Governor George Pardee in 1905 as an agricultural research campus and 
        opened its doors to students in 1908;
Whereas UC Davis became a full University of California campus in 1959;
Whereas UC Davis has since expanded its student body to more than 30,000 
        students, and its academic offerings to more than 100 undergraduate 
        majors, 87 graduate programs, and 6 professional schools including 
        education, law, management, medicine, nursing, and veterinary medicine;
Whereas UC Davis--true to its land-grant mission--has in a century touched 
        everything that matters to us as human beings, from our health to the 
        economy, to what we eat and drink, to how we experience and interpret 
        life;
Whereas UC Davis scientists and alumni have transformed agriculture to the 
        benefit of California and the world;
Whereas the UC Davis art program has influenced the course of art history and 
        brought critical attention to artists in California;
Whereas UC Davis scientists have helped to protect Lake Tahoe, Mono Lake, and 
        other environmental treasures;
Whereas the UC Davis Medical Center is a top research hospital that also serves 
        as the primary acute-care and trauma center for 6,000,000 people in the 
        region;
Whereas UC Davis research and instruction has fueled the growth of the 
        $45,000,000,000-a-year California wine industry and provided worldwide 
        leadership and innovation in enology and viticulture;
Whereas from its earliest days UC Davis has hosted international scholars, and 
        currently ranks in the top 5 of all American universities for number of 
        international scholars;
Whereas the often-overlapping and collaborating communities of UC Davis and the 
        City of Davis have forged innovations in environmental housing and 
        bicycle transportation;
Whereas the UC Davis athletics program is as notable for its athletic 
        accomplishments--including a national record for football league 
        championships and a Division II national championship in basketball--as 
        well as for the academic accomplishments of its athletes, which include 
        3 National Collegiate Athletic Association Woman of the Year award 
        winners;
Whereas UC Davis has 186,000 alumni who make an impact in communities 
        worldwide--and in space--and include UNICEF Director, Ann Veneman, 
        former Treasurer of the United States, Anna Escobedo Cabral, former 
        California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Delaine Eastin, 
        renowned celebrity chef, Martin Yan, and NASA astronauts, Steve Robinson 
        and Tracy Caldwell;
Whereas UC Davis professors and researchers have achieved accomplishments from 
        determining the age of the solar system to identifying and neutralizing 
        numerous diseases;
Whereas UC Davis professors, graduate students and researchers annually generate 
        more than $500,000,000 in research funding, which is translated into 
        scientific breakthroughs, medical cures, industrial innovations and 
        other benefits to civilization;
Whereas UC Davis undergraduates--who hail from across the State and represent 
        every race and economic class--are California's top young students and 
        future leaders; and
Whereas UC Davis continues to serve California in new and vital ways, through 
        such new facilities as the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, the 
        Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, the Tahoe 
        Environmental Research Center, and the expansion of its emergency 
        medical facilities and its schools of law and management: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) congratulates the University of California, Davis, for 100 
        successful years of providing superb educational opportunities for 
        California;
            (2) recognizes the incredible range of accomplishments by the 
        faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the University of California, 
        Davis, across the whole range of human endeavor; and
            (3) thanks the University of California, Davis, for its contribution 
        to the betterment of our communities, our State, and our Nation.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.