Dateline archive:
100K genomes, athletics director, RISE awards — 7.13.12
THIS FRIDAY'S DATE (7.13.2012)
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100K Genome Project The recently established BGI@UC Davis partners with the FDA on an ambitious project to sequence the genomes of 100,000 infectious microorganisms, speeding the diagnosis of foodborne illnesses and enhancing the safety of our food supply. [ More ] |
NEWS SUMMARY
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Aggies welcome new athletics director: Terry Tumey
Coaches, alumni and other supporters, student-athletes — and future student-athletes — meet the man who has been chosen to lead the campus forward in NCAA Division 1. [ More, with video and slide show… ]
Our work on Higgs boson: Past, present and future
UC Davis physicists have contributed to the search for the Higgs boson for more than 20 years and, with the new knowledge from the particle's discovery, are now exploring the next frontier in physics. [ More, with video… ]
Office of Research announces first round of RISE awards
Dozens of faculty members comprise 12 interdisciplinary teams that will share $10 million in the campus's new Research Investments in the Sciences and Engineering. [ More… ]
The Morrill Act at 150: Honoring our land-grant history
Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi discusses the transformative power of the Morrill Act, the Civil War-era federal legislation that created our nation’s land-grant universities — including UC, and, eventually, UC Davis. [ More, with audio slide show… ]
Aggienaut Robinson retires from NASA, lands at UC Davis
One of UC Davis' most renowned alumni, astronaut Steve Robinson, is hanging up his spacesuit and returning to campus this fall as a professor in the College of Engineering's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. [ More, with video… ]
'Communities must adapt to our emerging climate reality'
Disagreeing on climate change is one thing, Professor Mark Lubell wrote in a recent opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, but everyone should start adapting to the new climate reality — as exemplified by this summer's disastrous wildfires. The July 6 column earned a best-of-the-week accolade from The Atlantic Monthly. … Also, a lecture next week on climate-change mitigation. [ More… ]
Vice Provost Pat Turner moving to UCLA
Professor and author Patricia A. Turner, vice provost of Undergraduate Education for the last 13 years, is switching UC campuses, moving to UCLA come Jan. 1 to serve as its dean and vice provost of Undergraduate Education. [ More… ]
News briefs: State awards $2.7 million to alternative-fuels researchers
The state Energy Commission has approved a two-year, $2.77 million grant to the Institute of Transportation Studies to research the value, benefits and drawbacks of all types of alternative transportation fuels and fuel uses in California. ... The campus ticket office moved this week from Freeborn Hall to Aggie Stadium. ... The Fall Welcome calendar is being assembled, and contributions are welcome. ... The Campus Council for Information Technology has clicked "yes" to the iClicker as the university's new standard for the electronic polling of students in the classroom. ... You have one more week to buy your tickets for the UC Davis Family Picnic at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. ... Bloodmobiles drove off with 370 pints from the June 27-28 blood draw on the Quad. [ More… ]
DIRECTIVES and ANNOUNCEMENTS
No directives or announcements were issued this week.
EVENTS
The arts: Head start on tickets for newly added Hamlet
Through Saturday, July 14, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
Just added to the 2012-13 season: Hamlet, to be performed by Shakespeare's Globe on Tour, Nov. 1 and 2. Staff, faculty and students can buy tickets through Saturday, before they go on sale to the general public. [ More… ]
Cross-Pollination: Art-Nature Workshop
Sunday, July 15, 10 a.m.-noon, gazebo, arboretum
An all-ages craft-making session, using natural materials from the Shields Oak Grove. Free. [ More… ]
Summer brown bag: “Using Vision Boards to Achieve Your Goals”
Thursday, July 19, noon-1 p.m., Hamilton Room, Heitman Staff Learning Center
Join this free session, no reservations needed, where you can start creating a vision board — a tool that can help you gain clarity about your future. [ More… ]