Environmental issues in California will be the focus of the "Environment and Society" symposium to be held Thursday, May 26, at the University of California, Davis. Sponsored by UC Davis and the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the symposium will convene state and federal natural resource and agriculture officials, UC Davis faculty members and business leaders with an interest in future environmental and resource policies. The symposium will be presented from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Freeborn Hall, and is free and open to the public. The symposium is intended to "bring discussion about key environmental issues to the entire campus and the public," said Dennis Pendleton, director of the Public Service Research Program. The issues to be discussed are "an important part of current California public-policy debate. Our campus is a significant resource in these discussions," Pendleton said. The event recognizes the contributions made by former Chancellor Ted Hullar to environmental public-policy issues. He will present the symposium's concluding comments. Topics to be addressed include protecting California's unique biodiversity, resource policy and practice, agriculture in transition, and environmental and resource challenges for the future. Chancellor Larry N. Vanderhoef and Vice Chancellor Robert Shelton will give the symposium's opening remarks. Speakers who will make presentations include Douglas Wheeler, California Secretary of Resources; Richard Rominger, deputy secretary of agriculture in the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Pam Marrone, president of Novo Nordisk Entotech in Davis, Calif.; M.R.C. Greenwood, associate director for science, U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (and currently on leave from her position as dean of graduate studies at UC Davis); and Don Erman, director of the UC Centers of Water and Wildland Resources.