Aggie Square Chief Planning Director Bob Segar retires
Bob Segar served as the planning director for Aggie Square and associate vice chancellor for Campus Planning and Environmental Stewardship at UC Davis. He held this position at UC Davis since 1988, a total of 34 years, and joined Aggie Square in 2018.
This month, Aggie Square also says goodbye to Chief Industry Alliances Officer Mark Romney, who is retiring.
He is known best for his work planning the UC Davis “front door” along Interstate 80, the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, the Graduate School of Management at Gallagher Hall, the Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, the Manetti Shrem Museum and the Welcome Center/Conference, in addition to public landscapes that include the teaching vineyard, Vanderhoef Quad and improvements to the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden.
Bob graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in urban studies. He also graduated with a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Michigan where he met his wife, an environmental planner. Then they moved to San Francisco together and began work at a global design and planning firm. There, he managed projects for UC Berkeley, and a passion and love for college campus planning bloomed. He went on to serve as campus planner for Stanford before UC Davis hired Bob as its first full-time campus planner.
In 2018, Chancellor Gary S. May appointed Bob as the planning director of Aggie Square, a choice that came naturally to the chancellor who commented, “Bob has played a central role in the growth and transformation of the UC Davis campus over the last 25 years, and I can’t think of anyone more qualified to live and breathe what Aggie Square should become. He understands the complexities involved in such a major project, and he has a demonstrated ability to work with a variety of communities to identify and achieve shared goals.”
In his 5 years at Aggie Square, Bob has overseen the project, managing the people, programs, and activities at the site, and keeping its progress on track.
Tribute to Bob Segar and His Legacy of Community Engagement
UC Davis' First Career Campus Planner Retires After 34 Years of Service