With your help, UC Davis is taking its food and wine programs to the next level of excellence and helping industries in those vital sectors prepare for future challenges.

Construction of the Academic Buildings for the Department of Viticulture and Enology and the Department of Food Science and Technology was funded through the generous support of Robert Mondavi, the people of the state of California, who approved the K - Higher Education Bond Act of 2004 and UC Davis. The Academic Buildings and Sensory Center opened their doors in the fall of 2008.

The August A. Busch III Brewing and Food Science Laboratory and the Teaching and Research Winery are now under construction and designed to meet the US Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certification, the highest level and first such building at UC Davis.  The brewery, food science lab and winery will complete the Institute's complex of research and teaching facilities. These facilities are entirely funded by gifts from the donors listed below with the fundraising continuing to equip the new food science laboratory and winery. These buildings will serve as models of efficiency for the industry and achieve LEED Platinum status. Generous donors from the wine industry have made leadership gifts to make these upgrades to the original plans possible.

We would like to thank our generous private donors*:

Benefactors

• Robert Mondavi
• Anheuser-Busch Foundation
• J. Lohr Vineyards and Wines
• The Morning Star Packing Company
• Silverado Vineyards-Ron & Diane Miller

Founders

• Con Agra Foods, Inc.
• Constellation Brands
• Foster's Wine Estates Americas
• In memory of John C. Gist, Jr.
• Alan & Gladys Hoefer
• Jess S. Jackson & Barbara R. Banke, Kendall Jackson Winery
• Wendell Jacob
• Los Gatos Tomato Products and its growers
• Peter & Merle Mullin
• Ed & Irene Ojdana
• Rod & Cathy Park
• Joan & (the late) Lewis Platt
• Peter J. Shields Endowed Chair
• Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
• Silver Oak Cellars
• The Wine Group
• World Cooperage-Boswell Foundation, Inc.

Patrons

• Wayne & Jacque Bartholomew
• Jacqueline Herbert Beckley & Leslie J. Herzog
• Ted Briggs
• Cornerstone Flooring - "in Memory of Michael Bonaccorsi"
• California Tomato Growers Association
• California Tomato Research Institute
• Fisher Scientific - Paul & Sandra Montrone
• H.J. Heinz Company Foundation
• The H.J. Heinz Company
• Ingomar Packing Company
• Jelly Belly Candy Company
• Larry Y. and Ellen A. Lee
• Ken & Dorothy Lindauer
• Harold & Deborah McClarty
• Douglas & Julianne Muhleman
• David & Eugenia Ruegg
• Southern California Chapter of the Institute of Food Technologists (SCIFTS)
• Richard & Claudia Smith - Pairaiso Vineyards
• Anonymous
• Clair A. Weast, Ph.D.

Partners

• Douglas O. Adams & Dawn F. Adams
• Vern & Mary Lee Altman
• Ernest P. Peninou
• Charlie and Diane Bamforth
• Don and Jill Birnbaum
• Linda F. Bisson
• John & Nancy Buechsenstein
• Merry Edwards
• Charles & Kalani Engles
• Charmer Sunbelt Group
• Kathleen Nelson Feicht, Ph.D.
• GE Consumer & Industrial
• Dennis & Judith Groth - Groth Vineyard & Winery
• Parke & Scott Hafner
• In Memory of John Halliday
• Clare M. Hasler
• Heitz Wine Cellars
• Paul Hobbs/Paul Hobbs Winery
• Dr. Walter Jennings (the late Erika)
• W. Mark & Helga E. Kliewer
• John M. Krochta & Marg K. Bartosek
• Michael D. Larner
• Ken & Connie McCorkle
• Cathy & Ron Midyett
• Jeff O'Neill - O'Neill Vinters & Distillers
• Cornelius Ough, M.S., D.Sc. Prof. Emeritus of Enology
• Robert C. Pearl
• Robert Pellegrini - Pellegrini Bros. Wines, Inc.
• Bill Perry UC 1953
• Michael & Stephanie Poley
• Ramey Wine Cellars
• Charles Sawyer-Sawyer Cellars
• Lois Spafford
• Herbert & Marjorie Stone
• William & Mary Traverso
• Robert & Carli Traverso
• Constant & Tempest Van Vlierden
• Michael Walsh
• Doug Wight

Facility Naming Opportunities
Naming opportunities enable UC Davis to appropriately and publicly recognize the generosity and commitment of donors to the RMI vision. Donors may elect to have their name — or the name of someone they may designate — inscribed on a plaque adjacent to a particular room or within a special indoor or outdoor space. Numerous naming opportunities are available for individuals, families, corporations and foundations. Selected opportunities include:

• Academic Building

At 129,000 square-feet, these three buildings house the Departments of Viticulture and Enology and Food Science and Technology. They feature classrooms, laboratories, faculty offices and public education spaces. There are still many significant and highly-visible naming opportunities in these buildings including:

• Winery

The Department of Viticulture and Enology’s new state-of-the-art winery is under construction and scheduled to open in fall 2010. This facility will provide advanced examples of winery systems in our teaching, precise fermentation control in our research and showcase for industry and the public to observe and visit.  The Winery presents a unique opportunity for those who are passionate about wine to partner with the department in support of its long-standing tradition of excellence in teaching, scientific inquiry and industry service.

• August A. Busch III Brewing and Food Science Laboratory

The August A. Busch III Brewing and Food Science Laboratory will be a 11,500 square foot, flexible, pilot-scale facility designed for innovative and entrepreneurial applications of food and beverage production.

The laboratory will provide a venue to operate and test new ideas and technologies in the rapidly changing fields of: food safety; brewing; fruit and vegetable processing; chocolate and confections; and dairy processing, among others. The facility will be entirely food-grade and will include a general food processing area, a milk processing laboratory and a brewery in addition to classroom and lab space.

To make a gift or inquire about making a pledged, planned or larger gift, exploring naming opportunities or set up a personal appointment, please contact Kathy Sachs-Barrientes, ksbarrientes@ucdavis.edu, (530) 752-1602 or (530)219-3203. Gifts provided in memory of Robert Mondavi are greatly valued and appreciated. The Mondavi family has asked that contributions to UC Davis be designated to the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science (RMI). Checks may be written to the UC Davis Foundation and annotated "RMI."
Gifts may be sent to the:

Robert Mondavi Institute
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
UC Davis One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
If you would prefer to make a gift online, click here https://awc.ucdavis.edu/MakeAGift.aspx?alloc=322552.