Student Projects

Image of art installation by first generation students on display in the Arboretum GATEway Garden.

Student Art on Display in the Arboretum GATEway Garden through June 19

by Sara Amid
Tue, June 14, 2022

Community Engagement

Students from UC Davis’ spring quarter First Year Seminar Make an Exhibition: First-Generation College Student Experiences, created a display in the Arboretum GATEway Garden and all are welcome to visit! Students were assigned to produce a collaborative, temporary exhibition around the themes of family and tradition, community, discoveries, and challenges.

Noreen Mabini

by Sydney Odman
Tue, May 19, 2020

Student Leadership

Learning by Leading Waterway Stewardship Co-Coordinator 2021

Image of an art installation entitled Addiction, 2019, featuring dozens of fake, plaster cell phones hanging from a popular ginkgo tree in the UC Davis Arboretum's East Asian Collection.

Popular ginkgo tree showcases cross-cultural addiction

by Katie Ferguson Hetrick
Thu, November 21, 2019

Community Engagement

Art installation created by Rocio Perez, a student in Professor Robin Hill's Intermediate Sculpture Class entitled Addiction, 2019, features dozens of fake plaster cell phones hanging from a popular ginkgo tree in the UC Davis Arboretum's East Asian Collection.

Katie Pierce

Katie Pierce Environmental Science and Management
Habitat Restoration Student Co-Coordinator, 2015-17

Students install low-water, low-maintenance planting

Thu, January 29, 2015

Environmental Education

Last Saturday, January 24, 2015, students and members of the Environmental Club at UC Davis assisted staff from the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden (APG) in planting a strip of landscape along the curve of Garrod Drive just outside the Vet Med horse corral and across from our teaching nursery.

Students develop design concepts for amphitheater in Arboretum

Wed, December 10, 2014

Community Engagement

Whenever possible Arboretum and Public Garden staff collaborate with a wide range of professors across campus to incorporate our outdoor spaces into student learning.

“Sites and Sounds of the Universe,” art on ground

Here today, gone tomorrow: student projects feature fleeting, natural phenomena in the Arboretum

Wed, December 03, 2014

Community Engagement

In Fall 2014, students in Lecturer Elizabeth Boults Landscape Architecture 1 created site-specific installations throughout the UC Davis Arboretum.

Student-created sustainable light sculptures on display in the Arboretum

Fri, April 25, 2014

Community Engagement

Solar-powered light sculptures created by 48 students in Studio in Sustainable Design (Design 127B) taught by Design Department faculty Ann Savageau and Bob Morgan, are currently on display in the Arboretum’s newly-constructed California Native Plant GATEway Garden.

Students design sustainable birdhouses

Fri, December 06, 2013

Community Engagement

As the result of a collaboration between the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden and the UC Davis Department of Design, the arboretum and other parts of the Davis campus will become student galleries for Ann Savageau’s “Sustainable Design” class.

Student-created public art on display in the arboretum and main campus

Fri, December 06, 2013

Community Engagement

Professor Robin Hill’s students created and installed four public art pieces last week in the arboretum and on the main campus; the installations are scheduled to stay in place until around December 21.