Aggie Square in the News
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LAURELS: Research Parks Association Honors Aggie Square Personnel
Oct. 18, 2022 | Dateline
Aggie Square and the people making it happen are continuing to attract attention in the Association of University Research Parks, or AURP.
![Laura Marcu and Dr. Griff Harsh](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk9426/files/media/images/2022-06-30harsh-marcu-2c-004%201140xx5705-3209-0-276.jpg)
UC Davis gets $6.3 million grant to launch medtech center planned for Aggie Square
July 20, 2022 | Sacramento Inno
The University of California Davis is launching a center dedicated to researching and commercializing new imaging technologies that could transform the way surgeries are performed.
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NIH Grant Creates National Center at UC Davis
July 12, 2022 | Dateline
A new center that stands to transform surgical procedures and brain monitoring on a national scale using light-based, artificial intelligence-informed technologies will soon be part of Aggie Square thanks to a recent $6.3 million grant from NIH.
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UC Davis Aggie Square
July 6, 2022 | PBS Studio Sacramento
What is UC Davis Aggie Square? UC Davis Chancellor Gary May joins host Scott Syphax for a conversation about the project’s future.
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Squaring Up With Aggie Square
April 20, 2022 | Comstock’s Magazine
After five years of planning, construction is finally beginning at Aggie Square, a $1.1 billion development near UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.
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Aggie Square holds groundbreaking ceremony in Sacramento
March 14, 2022| The California Aggie
On Feb. 16, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for Aggie Square in Sacramento with over 200 people were in attendance for the event.
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Aggie Square Groundbreaking Ceremony
February 24, 2022 | The Observer
UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg joined development partners, elected officials, and community leaders on Feb. 16 for the ceremonial groundbreaking of Aggie Square.
Sacramento’s ‘biggest economic initiative’ — $1 billion Aggie Square project — breaks ground
February 19, 2022 | Sacramento Bee
Community leaders and University of California, Davis, officials broke ground Wednesday on a new $1 billion, 8-acre life sciences campus that could help reshape Sacramento’s reputation as a government town to an innovation hub.
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Aggie Square project breaks ground in Sacramento
February 17, 2022 | Davis Enterprise
On Wednesday morning, leaders from UC Davis, the city of Sacramento and development company Wexford Science and Technology celebrated breaking ground on the $1 billion Aggie Square project at a ceremony in Sacramento.
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Construction on UC Davis’ Aggie Square to start in April
February 16, 2022 | Sacramento Business Journal
The University of California Davis celebrated the ceremonial groundbreaking of its $1 billion Sacramento campus and biotechnology hub Wednesday morning, with a start on construction eyed for this spring.
![Provost Mary Croughan, Chancellor Gary May, Associate Vice Chancellor Bob Segar, and Vice Chancellor Kelly Ratliff pose with golden shovels at the Aggie Square groundbreaking](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk9426/files/media/images/20220216-aggiesquare-044_1.jpg)
Conversation about Aggie Square
February 15, 2022 | CapRadio
Chancellor Gary May has a conversation on the groundbreaking of Aggie Square.
How Sacramento’s mayor cleared way for construction of multibillion-dollar Aggie Square
January 9, 2022 | Sacramento Bee
After negotiating a lawsuit settlement, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg looks forward to Aggie Square moving forward.