Department of Applied Science, UC Davis

The Department of Applied Science at the University of California, Davis was a cooperative academic program involving the University of California, Davis and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). It was established in the fall of 1963 by Edward Teller, director of LLNL, and Roy Bainer, then dean of the UC Davis College of Engineering. The department was discontinued in 2011.

Teller's push for an educational institution associated with the LLNL was part of a general movement championed by Alvin M. Weinberg of Oak Ridge National Laboratory to use the United States Department of Energy National Laboratories to educate scientists, since at the time the department employed roughly 10% of the scientists in the United States. Teller first approached the University of California, Berkeley with his idea, but the faculty there opposed the idea because of the military focus of the program and the administration wasn't receptive. So he turned, reluctantly, to UC Davis instead. There Bainer and Emil M. Mrak, then chancellor of UCD, were more receptive to Teller's plan, although some faculty of the College of Engineering were unhappy with the idea of outsiders teaching their students.

Nicknamed "Teller Tech," the department was established in 1963 by Edward Teller on the grounds of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). It was the first graduate education program associated with one of the national laboratories. At the dedication of the new program, then president of the University of California, Clark Kerr, said that the school's "imaginative new curriculum" would allow the department to "build in a short time and at small cost a highly advanced training program of great significance to modern society."

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