Dennis Dingemans, a UCD faculty member from 1972 to 2005, taught and researched historical, regional, and urban geography. Active in college and city affairs, he coauthored Arcadia's Woodland and directs the museum in Davis. Ann Foley Scheuring, author and editor, wrote the definitive history of UC Davis, Abundant Harvest. She recently published Valley Empires, a history of California's great Central Valley viewed through the careers of two 19th-century ranchers.