Agricultural History Center

The Agricultural History Center coordinates and conducts research on all phases of agricultural history with a primary focus on agricultural policy, land use, the agricultural-environmental border, technological change, farm labor, and borders and borderlands in the Americas. It also serves as the administrative headquarters of the all-UC Group in Economic History.

UC Agricultural Issues Center

The UC Agricultural Issues Center (AIC) is a university-wide research and outreach unit that focuses on issues of importance to agriculture in California and the West. Major research-outreach projects include:

• Agricultural trade and Pacific Rim issues
• Rural/urban interaction and agriculture
• Natural resources, the environment and agriculture
• Agricultural science and promotion issues
• State and federal agricultural policy

AIC conducts issues-oriented research studies and outreach programs in conjunction with faculty associates and with departments and centers throughout the University of California system.

Center for Consumer Research

The Center for Consumer Research conducts interdisciplinary studies on consumers as they are affected by products and services (e.g., food, clothing, shelter, credit, and health), and by the institutions which provide them.

Center for Child and Family Studies

The Center for Child and Family Studies is a research, teaching and demonstration laboratory sponsored by the Division of Human Development and Family Studies in the Department of Human and Community Development. The center includes programs sponsored jointly with the Department of Psychiatry, UCDMC. The Center supports the educational goals of the human development undergraduate major and the graduate programs in child and human development. The laboratory provides students with opportunities for direct interaction with infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children in a setting that demonstrates the interpretation of theory in practice; developing skill in naturalistic observation; and conducting approved research.

Institute of Governmental Affairs

The Institute of Governmental Affairs (IGA) serves as a research base for social science faculty in eight departments on campus, and visiting scholars from throughout the United States and around the world. IGA houses seven formal research programs – Center for State and Local Taxation; Joint Center for International Security Studies; Program on Immigration, Population, and the Economy; Program on Pacific Rim Business and Development; Program on Telecommunications Policy; Program on Workable Energy Regulation; Undergraduate Fellows Research program – and provides specialized services including grant advising, preparation and administration; academic program development; library and data services; seminar, workshop, and conference organization, and much more. The Institute also enhances the training of graduate and undergraduate students by providing research opportunities and by exposure to its public affairs programs.

Social Science Data Service

The Social Science Data Service (SSDS) is a unit of the Institute of Governmental Affairs. Its mission is to provide computing and consulting services to faculty and graduate students in the departments of economics, political science and sociology. SSDS offers consulting services on a range of software used in social science research, and staff are available to assist users with statistical and data-related programming. Other computing services include data storage, copying and subsetting, data formatting, scanning, and digital mastering.

UC Davis Washington Center

At the UC Davis Washington Center, faculty and graduate students can take advantage of the unique resources of the nation's capital. As part of its program, the Center has two residential positions for graduate students as teaching assistant research fellows. These positions allow fellows to pursue the many research opportunities in Washington while offering tutorial instruction to the program's undergraduate participants. Priority goes to students whose doctoral research would significantly benefit from a period of residence in Washington, D.C.