Vice Provost of University Outreach and International Programs

William B. Lacy is Vice Provost--University Outreach and International Programs and Professor of Sociology in the Department of Human & Community Development at the University of California- Davis, effective August 1999. Vice Provost Lacy is responsible for leadership of campus international initiatives, including Services for International Students and Scholars, Education Abroad Program, Quarter Abroad, Summer Abroad, International Agreements of Cooperation, International Alumni and Development, the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program and the Fulbright Programs. He also coordinates outreach activities and programs, including UC Davis Extension and campus initiatives involving government, business, and communities in addressing societal needs.

Prior to arriving at Davis, Dr. Lacy was the Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension and Associate Dean of the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Human Ecology at Cornell University 1994-1998, and Assistant Dean for Research, College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State University 1989-1994. Dr. Lacy received his B.S. in 1964 from Cornell University, M.A. in Higher Education Administration in 1965 from Colgate University, and his M.A. and a Ph.D. from University of Michigan in Sociology/Social Psychology in 1971 and 1975, respectively. He has authored/co-authored over sixty journal articles and book chapters and six books on education, science policy, agricultural research and extension, and biotechnology and biodiversity including: Science, Agriculture and the Politics of Research (1983); Plants, Power and Profits: Social, Economic and Ethical Consequences of the New Biotechnologies (1991); and Making Nature, Shaping Culture: Plant Biodiversity in Global Context (1995). He is currently co-Principal Investigator on a national USDA research grant entitled "Public Goods and University-Industry Relationships in Agricultural Biotechnology".

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Past President of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Rural Sociological Society.

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)