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Climate-Smart, art museum, $1M for study abroad — 3.22.13
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 The arts now and in the futureThe spring exhibition season is upon us, at the Nelson, Gorman and Design Museum. And there's an exhibition having to do with a museum that isn't even built yet — the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. See the three museum design proposals during Imagine! the night of April 3, or at the Nelson Gallery starting the next day. The season also includes Views of Migration at the Nelson, Together Again at the Gorman, and undergraduate and M.F.A. shows at the Design Museum. [ More, with slide show… ] |
NEWS SUMMARY
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International Conference: New agenda outlined for climate-change and agriculture
More than 300 scientists, policymakers and other agricultural and nongovernmental representatives from 34 nations gathered on campus this week to grapple with some difficult realities: Global climate change is already upon us, and nations around the world must learn how to lessen, and adapt to, its impacts while dramatically ramping up agricultural production to feed 9 billion mouths by 2050. In the end, they began sketching a roadmap to get there. [ More… ]
Grad programs look strong in latest U.S. News & World Report rankings
Grad programs showed continued strong performance in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings, with several programs in the social sciences and humanities, engineering and School of Medicine ranking among the top 20 in the nation. According to these latest rankings, UC Davis is home to two top-10 graduate programs — bioagricultural engineering (8th) and U.S. colonial history (9th) — and seven top-20 programs. [ More… ]
New endowment provides additional support for study abroad opportunities
Generations of UC Davis students will have more opportunity to study abroad as part of their education, thanks to a recent $1 million gift from Ann E. Pitzer, an alumna and current member of the UC Davis Foundation Board of Trustees. [ More… ]
Computer models show how deep carbon could return to Earth's surface
Computer simulations of water under extreme pressure are helping geochemists understand how carbon might be recycled from hundreds of miles below the Earth's surface. The work, co-authored by chemistry professor Giulia Galli, appeared in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [ More… ]
Sleep study: Adolescent brain makes 'remarkable transition' to mature thinking
By monitoring the brains of sleeping adolescents, the UC Davis Sleep Laboratory found that remarkable changes occur in the brain as it makes the major transition from childhood to adulthood. [ More… ]
Music adds to Eggheads' stature as symbols of UC Davis artistry
No one could have sculpted or composed a better day: Robert Arneson's Egghead sculptures as eye-catching and thought provoking as ever, under a sunny sky with a temperature in the mid-70s, and original music by UC Davis composers, each of whom wrote a piece for the Eggheads. Throw in members of the St. Louis Symphony, and you have the makings for the first Egghead Music Walk, held the afternoon of March 15. An estimated 200 to 300 people comprised the audience at each stop along the way. [ More, with video and slide show… ]
NEWS BRIEFS: Make way for new, improved Hutchison corridor
The first road closure is scheduled for next week (spring break) as construction begins on improvements to the Hutchison Drive corridor in the central part of campus. … During UC Day at the Capitol, President Mark G. Yudof stresses increased funding as the key to UC's continued quality. … The Campus Community Survey draws a "fantastic" 37.4 percent response rate for the Davis and Sacramento campuses, combined. … Shared Services Center customers: next brown bag meeting is Wednesday (March 27). … Employees are now able to buy, for themselves, the same kind of travel insurance that UC provides for university travel. … Soaring to New Heights ticket purchase deadline extended to April 1. [ More… ]
DIRECTIVES and ANNOUNCEMENTS
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Applications invited for Sautter IT awards
The application period is open for the 2013 Larry L. Sautter awards, recognizing innovative use of information technology in support of the university's mission. The deadline is 5 p.m. Friday, May 17. [ More… ]
EVENTS
FIRST Robotics is the name, 'Ultimate Ascent' is the game
Today-Saturday, March 22-23, The Pavilion at the ARC
High school teams from the Sacramento region direct their robots to put discs in multilevel baskets. Doors open until 7 p.m. today, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Free admission. [ More… ]
Entomology open house: From toe biters to flame skimmers
Sunday, March 24, 1-4 p.m., 1124 Academic Surge
The toe biters are giant water bugs, the flame skimmers are red or firecracker dragonflies — among the aquatic insects to be featured at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. Free. [ More… ]
'The Affordable Care Act and Public Health Goals'
Tuesday, April 2, 5 p.m., 1005 Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility
Sandra Shewry, director of state health policy at the California Healthcare Foundation, gives the keynote address at the Public Health Week Symposium, sponsored by the public health sciences department. [ More… ]
Frontiers of Physics: Higgs, Dark Energy and Black Holes
Saturday, April 6, Conference Center
"A day of extraordinary public lectures," by Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek (MIT), Maxwell Chertok (UC Davis), Michael S. Turner (University of Chicago) and Leonard Susskind (Stanford). Presented by the UC Davis High Energy Frontiers Theory Initiative. Lectures, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., followed by book signings. General admission $15, students $7, including box lunch. [ More… ]