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Holiday gifts, AAAS fellows, new undergrads — 11.30.12
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Seventeen faculty elected as AAAS fellows
The UC Davis group is being honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. The new fellows, ranging from economists to biomedical engineers to experts on wireless networking, will be formally recognized during the association's annual meeting in Boston in February. [ More… ]
'Increasingly talented and diverse' new undergrads enroll
UC Davis this fall enrolled a record entering class of freshmen and transfer students, one that Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi lauded as "increasingly talented and diverse." Read more about enrollment and meet five new undergraduates through photos and profiles. [ More, with slide show… ]
Researchers aid effort to sequence the complex wheat genome
Intent on developing wheat varieties with higher yields and enhanced nutritional content, UC Davis plant scientists have teamed up with researchers at nine other institutions in an attempt to sequence the wheat genome. UC Davis researchers were also part of an international consortium that recently sequenced the watermelon genome. [ More… ]
Science, still a man's world?
Discrimination against women in science continues to be a problem, even in fields dominated by female researchers, suggests a new UC Davis study that found a startling gender disparity in who is chosen to speak at scientific conferences. [ More, with video… ]
Campus sets up new program for discrimination complaints
The Sexual Harassment Education Program has taken on added responsibilities as the place to go with complaints of any kind of discrimination. As such, SHEP has a new name: Harassment and Discrimination Assistance and Prevention Program. HDAPP accepts all complaints of sexual harassment from faculty, staff and students, and complaints of discrimination from staff. Academic Affairs and Student Judicial Affairs continue to handle complaints of discrimination from faculty and students, respectively. [ More… ]
'Now what?' Forum sheds light on post-Prop. 30 campus budget
Campus budget officer Kelly Ratliff next week begins a round of talks with students, faculty and staf, to explain how Proposition 30's approval on Nov. 6 saved the university system from an additional cut of $250 million in state funds, but that the proposition did not bring any additional revenue to the UC system. [ More… ]
EXHIBITIONS: Alumna's hair, Craft Center's auction, Thiebaud's cover
Exciting times in the UC Davis art world: Alumna Hong Chun Zhang gives a talk next week at the Nelson Gallery, where the fall quarter exhibition includes some of her drawings — giant drawings of her hair. Craft Center staff members are selling their works in an auction that ends next week, with proceeds going to support the center's programs. And Wayne Thiebaud, professor emeritus of art, has yet another New Yorker cover to his credit. [ More… ]
NEWS BRIEFS: Ag health and safety center to honor farmworkers advocate
UC Davis' Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety is honoring a longtime advocate for farmworkers, Don Villarejo, who played a role in the center's founding more than 20 years ago. … The Road Ecology Center co-sponsors the third California Connectivity Forum, about connecting wildlife to their habitats, despite the roads that get in the way. … The campus Fire Department and the Davis Fire Department are set to activate the PulsePoint system, which works with GPS and smartphone technology to call on ordinary citizens to assist victims of sudden cardiac arrest. [ More… ]
DIRECTIVES and ANNOUNCEMENTS
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Town halls to help in search for Student Affairs leader, police lieutenant
Town halls are set for Monday (Dec. 3) to gather input on the qualifications that UC Davis should be looking for in its next vice chancellor of Student Affairs. … The final candidates for a police lieutenant's position will meet with the campus community at a town hall on Tuesday (Dec. 4) … Nominations are being sought for Academic Federation awards for excellence in teaching and research. … Corrected phone number for yule tree fire retardant. [ More… ]
EVENTS
Women's basketball vs. Stanford
Friday, Nov. 30, 7 p.m., The Pavilion
The Aggies return to The Pavilion for the first time since the Nov. 9 season opener to host No. 1 Stanford. [ More… ]
Chancellor's Colloquium: UCLA's Kumar Patel, physicist, electrical engineer
Tuesday, Dec. 4, 4 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
Patel, who served as UCLA's vice chancellor for research through 1999, invented the carbon dioxide laser and has been nominated for a Nobel Prize multiple times. [ More… ]
Holiday shows at the Mondavi Center
Dec. 5-21
Two of the center's favorite shows are back (Christmas in Ireland with the Danu Celtic band, and All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, featuring the nine-man vocal ensemble Cantus), and the American Bach Soloists break from their Messiah tradition to present a new holiday show. Also, the San Francisco Symphony presents a family concert: The Snowman. [ More… ]