Cities that need help with design and planning can now call on UC Davis students, under a new outreach program launched this fall by the campus's landscape architecture program. Known as Community Design and Planning Services, the program will benefit communities and students alike. Graduate and undergraduate students as well as faculty members will provide landscape architecture, interior design, planning and community development expertise. The program "will educate students to the benefits of community involvement in design decision-making and instill in students a sense of community responsibility," says Patsy Eubanks Owens, faculty director of the program and assistant professor of landscape architecture. Projects under way include efforts to help the city of Davis and Caltrans develop studies for nearby highway landscape improvements and to provide computer-generated visual simulations of the proposed underpass entrance into Davis.