This issue of Highlights is published with appreciation for our Animal Science alumni and friends. We want to tell you about the good fortunes of our faculty, staff and students who have been honored for superior achievements. We want you to know about some of the activities of our undergraduate students, the work of our dairy and livestock show teams and the fully student-run "first annual" Aggie Classic jackpot show. We thank the contributors who funded our purchase of a new stock trailer for outreach, teaching and student activities. We celebrate our good fortune in having had faculty like Professor Emeritus Lee Baldwin make our department their own and in receiving monetary gifts that will advance our teaching, research and outreach missions. Finally, we want you to look with us to the future as we make plans to replace some of our antiquated animal facilities. 

We hope that you enjoy this update on the people and the activities in your department. On behalf of the entire Department of Animal Science, I wish you good health and safety. If ever there is something we can do for you, please do not hesitate to contact me (telephone: 530-752-1682; e-mail: gbanderson@ucdavis.edu).