A Transformative Gift for a Sustainable Future


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The co-owners of the Wonderful Company have pledged $50 millionthe largest gift ever to a California universityto create a center for agricultural research and innovation.

The Lynda and Stewart Resnick Center for Agricultural Innovation will be a 40,000-square-foot state-of-the-art hub that will house classrooms, research, and lab spaces, and student career and advising services, reports the Sacramento Bee.

It's expected to be completed by 2026.

"With one foot rooted in science and the other in social impact, the individuals who pass through this center have the opportunity to be the heroes of our time," says Stewart Resnick, who is also a member of the UC Davis Chancellor's Board of Advisors.

The center will allow experts from across UC Davis to expand their explorations of new ways to balance global agricultural industry production with sustainable, scalable solutions, reports the UC Davis Chancellor's Board of Advisors.

The Resnicks' gift will also fund competitive research grants and the Resnick Agricultural Innovation Research Fund, which aims to support the transition to food production systems that repurpose and continually reuse as much, agriculture and otherwise, to reduce waste and ease the environmental impact of food production for a growing world.

The relationship between the Wonderful Company and UC Davis has been

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