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Aggie Square Announces UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory as New Research Tenant

  • by Erin Garcia
Aggie Square, the innovation district anchored by the University of California, Davis, in partnership with Wexford Science & Technology LLC, has announced the UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory (VGL) as its newest research tenant. The world-class laboratory, known for its pioneering animal DNA testing and genetics services, is situated within UC Davis’ School of Veterinary Medicine, the No. 1 veterinary program in the nation
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May Community Engagement Meeting

  • by Cee Nga Kao
On May 30, 2024, the Aggie Square Community Engagement meeting was held at UC Davis Betty Irene Moore Hall (School of Nursing), and was hosted by UC Davis, the City of Sacramento, and Wexford Science + Technology. The agenda included a general update on Aggie Square, information on job, workforce development and career pathways, and an open house session with organizations.
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The Social Lab

  • by Travis Sheridan

A key part of activation and engagement within the Aggie Square Innovation District (what Wexford refers to as a Knowledge Community) is the access to space that can be used for curated programming, community-related convenings, impromptu meetings, and just general moments of serendipitous collisions. Covering part of the first and second floors in the Life Long Learning Building (LLL) is the Social Lab.

 

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Career & Resource Fair Recap

  • by Sumiko Hong

On Friday, April 19th, UC Davis, the City of Sacramento, Pivot Sac and SETA/Sacramento Works co-hosted a community career resource fair at Fruitridge Community Collaborative to connect community members with resources and supports for employment and workforce training. 

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Bricks at Aggie Square

  • by Cee Kao
Take a look at the progress installing the two-story University of California motto on the East side of Aggie Square's Life-Long Learning building.
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Youth Listening Session Recap

  • by Sumiko Hong
 

On March 20, the Sacramento Youth Commission’s Aggie Square subcommittee led a youth listening session with area students at West Campus High School.  Twenty five students attended. After a welcome from Michael Benjamin II, Vice Mayor Caity Maple’s district director and Travis Sheridan, Wexford Science + Technology’s Chief Community Officer, the commissioners led an ice breaker and small group discussions to gather feedback about the types of programs and amenities students would like to see at Aggie Square.

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Update on Biomedical engineering undergrads who won at the BigBang! Business Plan Competition

  • by Cee Nga Kao

Quarter at Aggie Square is an academic program offered by UC Davis for undergraduates at UC Davis Sacramento campus that consists of coursework, internships, and community engagement of up to 18 units towards graduation. Different topics are taught each academic quarter. Quarter at Aggie Square’s 2022 fall quarter Biomedical Engineering cohort won the 2023 Big Bang! Competition in spring 2023 with Square Solutions, one of their two medical innovations.

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February Community Meeting Recap

  • by Cee Nga Kao
The February 29, 2024 Aggie Square Community Engagement meeting was held at the Oak Park Community Center and was hosted by UC Davis, the City of Sacramento, and Wexford Science + Technology. The agenda included a general update on Aggie Square, a look at Wexford’s philosophy related to public art and an overview of the upcoming opportunity for local artists to provide original murals for Aggie Square interior spaces. 

Press Clippings

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California 2030:  The future of campus life

Jan. 16, 2024  |  CBS News

Chancellor May gives his thoughts on the future of what college will look like which includes a feature on Aggie Square.

 

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We can see the future of Aggie Square

May 8, 2023 |  Dateline

Fourteen months after Aggie Square's groundbreaking, the first two buildings — Life Sciences, Technology and Engineering East and Life-long Learning have reached their full height, eight stories (including a mechanical floor atop LSTE East), which was cause for a topping-off celebration last Thursday (May 4). 

 

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Aggie Square project completes first phase

May 4, 2023 | Fox40 News

The project, located near UC Davis Medical Center, is projected to create thousands of jobs when it is fully completed over the next several years.
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Aggie Square completes first milestone. Here’s what next for the Sacramento innovation hub

May 4, 2023 | The Sacramento Bee

Political leaders, neighborhood residents and the UC Davis community celebrated what Chancellor Gary May called “the next big chapter of the Aggie Square story” on Thursday morning as they marked completion of the framework for the first two buildings at the Sacramento innovation hub.
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Aggie Square 'topping off' leads to 'sign the beam'

May 4, 2023 | KRCA 3

A significant milestone was reached for the Aggie Square project in Sacramento, which is expected to generate an estimated one-time economic impact of $2.6 billion within the six-county region, according to the University of California, Davis.
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With topping out, Aggie Square enters new phase — looking for tenants

May 4, 2023 | Sacramento Inno

On Thursday morning, the University of California Davis, the city of Sacramento and developer Wexford Science & Technology celebrated the topping off of what will be the first two buildings in the $1.1 billion, 1.2 million-square-foot biotechnology center just south of UC Davis’ hospital campus in Sacramento.
Structural framing of an Aggie Square building

Aggie Square Hits Milestone With Topping Off Ceremony

May 4, 2023 | Dateline

The University of California, Davis, the city of Sacramento, and Wexford Science & Technology, LLC, today celebrated the full structural completion of the first phase of Aggie Square, an emerging innovation district on the UC Davis Sacramento campus.
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Programs Will Prevent Housing Displacement Around Aggie Square

Feb. 10, 2023 | Dateline

UC Davis and the city of Sacramento are working to ensure people who live along Sacramento’s Stockton Boulevard corridor are not pushed out of their homes when Aggie Square opens.

 

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