Celebrating the Legacy of Professor Gurdev Khush - Punjabi Week, 2023

This event commemorated the dedication of Dr. Gurdev S. Khush’s papers to the UC Davis library. Dr. Khush is a Geneticist, Plant Breeder, and UC Davis Alumnus (1960). Collections to be donated to UC Davis library pertain to contributions to world food security and poverty alleviation, correspondence with Professor G. L. Stebbins and Charless Rick, graduate supervisor and postdoctoral mentor at UC Davis respectively, correspondence with other colleagues, invitations to participate and speak at international conferences, drafts of speeches and addresses during award ceremonies after receiving Japan Prize and World Food Prize, Wolf Prize and other prizes, documents related to the Green Revolution, biographical materials including diplomas, photographs with world dignitaries, and honors, reports of scientific visits to rice growing countries, miscellaneous pamphlets and press clippings, scientific publications bound together into five volumes and reviews of his book Cytogenetics of Aneuploids published in 1973.