2019
WAKAMATSUFEST150 (Placerville, CA)
June 6-9, 2019
GTI Founding Director Katharine P. Burnett gave a talk at the 2019 Sesquicentennial Wakamatsu Farm Festival on tea and Japanese tea culture.
WORLD TEA EXPO (Las Vegas, CA)
June 10-13, 2019
Congratulations to GTI Faculty member, Dr. Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan (Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center) for winning the Best Tea Health Advocate award at the 2019 World Tea Expo! We are so proud of her accomplishments. Check out her lecture on tea, health, and gut microbiota here!
LA TEA FESTIVAL (Los Angeles, CA)
August 10-11, 2019
GTI participated in the Los Angeles Tea Fair 2019, stirring up lots of interest. Here are some pictures of Catherine Nguyen, Research Analyst and Industry Liaison, along with some of our UC Davis Summer 2019 Tea Industry Interns. Fun!
WORLD FOOD DAY FESTIVAL (Davis, CA)
October 16, 2019
GTI had a booth at the UC Davis World Food Day Festival and connected with many students! Pictured is UC Davis Global Tea Club member, Lydia Kao, and GTI Research Analyst Catherine Nguyen.
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL TEA FESTIVAL (San Francisco, CA)
October 20, 2019
GTI as well as the student-led UC Davis Global Tea Club (GTC) had a presence at the 2019 San Francisco International Tea Festival, connecting with both old and new tea friends! Pictured is GTI analyst Catherine Nguyen along with GTC member Lydia Kao, as well as Rona Tison from Ito En and Christy Hui of the Xiaolin Showdown television franchise.
2018
VISIT TO UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA (Shizuoka, Japan)
December 14, 2018
GTI Founding Director Katharine P. Burnet and affiliate faculty member, Dr. Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague, visited researchers and tea industry affilates in Shizuoka, Japan as well as Uji, Japan.
DEVAN SHAH INTERNATIONAL TEA FESTIVAL (Los Angeles, USA)
December 1, 2018
GTI Analyst & Industry Liasion Catherine Nguyen represented GTI at the Devan International Tea Festival in 2018. She saw many faces–both new and familiar–at the event!
VISIT TO BITACO UNIQUE COLOMBIAN TEA (Calle, Colombia)
November 26, 2018
GTI Founding Director Katharine P. Burnett and affiliate faculty member, Dr. Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague visited Bitaco Unique Colombian Tea in Calle, Columbia.
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL TEA FESTIVAL (San Francisco, USA)
November 3, 2018
Our new GTI Research Analyst & Industry Liaison, Catherine Nguyen, represented GTI at the recent San Francisco International Tea Festival. She met some great folks there!
VISIT WITH HUNAN TEA GROUP TEA COMPANY (Hunan, China)
October 22, 2018
GTI Founding Director Katharine P. Burnett met with representatives from Hunan Tea Group Company Ltd. in Hunan, China.
XIAMEN INTERNATIONAL TEA FAIR 2018 (Xiamen, China)
October 18, 2018
GTI is represented at the Xiamen International Tea Fair again this year. At over a million square feet of tea, tea ware, tea packaging and anything else tea related, the Xiamen Tea Fair helps us connect with great tea folks from around the world.
WORLD TEA EXPO (Las Vegas, USA)
June 15, 2018
GTI is proud to announce that Founding Director Katharine Burnett was awarded Best Tea Health Advocate 2018 at the World Tea Expo, Las Vegas. This is their educator award.
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