State Sen. Jackie Speier, D- Hillsborough, left, speaks with political science professor emeritus Ed Costantini during her visit to campus on April 21. Speier's visit was part of her listening tour of all UC campuses in which she's been hearing from students, faculty, staff and administrators. Besides attending an informal lunch with Costantini and others in the Social Science and Humanities building, Speier, who graduated from UC Davis, toured the Genome and Biomedical Sciences facility, spoke with students in the Memorial Union and participated in a roundtable discussion on graduate education's impact on California.