The tragedy of Monday’s tornado in Oklahoma may be halfway across the country, but there are still ways we can help locally.

Jordan Scott, communications director for the American Red Cross Capital Region Chapter, said the organization is accepting donations for relief efforts. People can text REDCROSS to 9099 to make an automatic $10 donation, or can visit redcross.org to make a donation.

Scott said there are no plans yet to send teams from Northern California over to Oklahoma for relief efforts, but that it usually takes 24 to 48 hours for them to receive requests.

“Our volunteers know it may happen and to be ready,” Scott said. “We’ve got the experience and the expertise here.”

Volunteers from the area have helped out through other disasters, including the 2011 tornado in Joplin, Mo., and Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

Senior agribusiness executives from throughout China will gather June 14-16 in Shanghai for an innovative business leaders’ symposium coordinated by the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis.

The three-day symposium, “Growing Agribusiness in China: Scaling Up and Staying Fresh,” is designed to be a practical, interactive experience, useful for executives in all aspects of the agribusiness supply chain from farming and food processing to retail.

It will be held at the state-of-the-art Jiading campus of the CHIC Knowledge Center of Excellence, created by CHIC Group, a global firm specializing in supply-chain management, domestic manufacturing and high-technology industries... Read More

Nancy Pelosi, Democratic leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, will launch graduation season at the University of California, Davis, on Friday with a commencement address at the School of Law, where more than 200 students will receive law degrees.

Twelve other commencement ceremonies will follow between now and June 16, during which the university will recognize some 8,000 graduates with undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees in fields ranging from nursing and veterinary medicine to humanities and agricultural sciences.

For the first time this year, degrees will also be awarded to graduates of the university's new master's of public accountancy program.

Live and on-demand webcasts of each of the commencements will be available.

Pelosi will speak at the School of Law commencement at 4 p.m. at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts... Read More