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Wear Red Day, WASC site visit, Olympian — 2.4.14
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 Heartwarming day in storeIt's almost here: UC Davis Wears Red Day, this Friday, raising heart health awareness, with events that include a heartwarming gesture for pediatric patients and their teddy bears, and our attempt to make the world's largest heart formation, 12,000-people strong. Everyone's invited -- students, staff, faculty, members of the community. Come to the Hutchison IM Field at 11:30 a.m., and stick around for the Battle Heart Disease Fair from 1 to 4 p.m. in The Pavilion. [ More… ] |
NEWS SUMMARY
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WASC accreditation site visit scheduled for April
Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi announced that the Western Association of Schools and Colleges will make its on-site accreditation visit April 9 to 11. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to read the UC Davis Institutional Reaccreditation Report and participate in the process by attending forums hosted by the WASC review team during its visit. [ More… ]
New technique makes 'biogasoline' from plant waste
Chemists here have invented a process to make gasoline-like fuels from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste. [ More… ]
Safety first: Lab coats, aprons, goggles to be handed out
Lab workers by the thousands will converge on The Pavilion next week to receive new personal protective equipment. Here are some of the numbers: 5,718 flame-resistant lab coats, 1,801 splash aprons and 10,018 pairs of safety glasses. [ More… ]
Chancellor makes lattes for a lotta scholarship cash
Chancellor Katehi takes a whirl at Swirlz, the CoHo's coffee bar and bakery, working behind the counter in fulfillment of one of her two UC Promises for Education. In the systemwide fundraising campaign last fall, she promised to work at the Coffee House in return for donations of $5,000 to UC Davis scholarships. She exceeded her goal, so there she was on Feb. 3, fixing lattes and filling other coffee orders. "The best part was interacting with the students," she says. "The Promise for Education campaign was really all about supporting our students, and it was such an honor to be able to participate." [ More… ]
Lighting center assists Woodland schools on energy savings
The Woodland Joint Unified School District has taken a page from UC Davis and its California Lighting Technology Center by installing adaptive lighting fixtures in parking lots -- lights that dim to 50 percent power when no one is around. "Hopefully ... this will become the standard in K-12 schools across California," says Professor Michael Siminovitch, the center's director, who was on hand last week for the Woodland district's celebration of the new lights and a solar-panel project that is generating 68 percent of the electricity at 10 school sites. [ More… ]
From water polo in Hickey Pool to the half-pipe in Sochi
Brita Sigourney gave up water polo and Hickey Pool for the snow, and today she's a U.S. Olympian, headed to Sochi to compete in half-pipe freeskiing, which is new to the Olympics this year. ... Want to know more about the Olympics? Check out our list of UC Davis experts, including James Van den Bogaerde, a physician for the U.S. Ski Team. [ More… ]
Taking the oath: New police officers, including 4 recent alumni
The UC Davis Police Department's swearing-in ceremony next week will have a uniquely Aggie flavor: Four of the new recruits are recent graduates of UC Davis, and three of them went through the department's cadet program. Police Chief Matt Carmichael also will swear in three other new officers, joining UC Davis from other departments; the new director of campus security; and three new members of the administrative staff. [ More… ]
NEWS BRIEFS: All staff invited to ADMAN conference
Registration is now open for ADMAN's Mid-Management Conference, which this year is open to staff at all levels and features a reduced registration fee. Plus …
- Forum to address the distribution of graduate tuition
- Consider applying for administrative advisory committees
FEATURED COLLOQUIA
- Distinguished Educational Thinkers Speakers Series -- "Play, Scientific Modeling and Digital Technologies: A Case Study of Learning Physics Through Pretend Play," by Noel Enyedy, associate professor, Urban Schooling Division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA. (Feb. 4)
- "Tainted Regret: The Cold War and Caribbean Solidarity Post-1983" -- Laurie Lambert, assistant professor, African American and African Studies Program, in the program's Brown Bag Lecture Series: The African Diaspora. (Feb. 5)
- Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous -- With speakers who fuse art and science in their work. Sponsored by the Art-Science Fusion Program. (Feb. 6)
- Law Review Symposium -- "Not Equal Yet: Building Upon Foundations of Relationship Equality," with keynote speaker Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Irvine School of Law and one of the nation's most prominent and influential constitutional law scholars. (Feb. 7; registration strongly encouraged)
- "Sidi Bouzid Blues and the Green Wave: Journeys through the Arab Spring and Fall" -- Karima Bennoune, UC Davis law professor and author of the recent Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism, in the Faris Saeed Lecture Series in Arab Studies. (Feb. 10, postponed from an earlier date)
- "The Journey of a Scientist with Two Hats: From Lab Rat to Social Activist" -- Koen Van Rompay discusses the HIV-AIDS research that he and others are doing at the California National Primate Center -- work that inspired him to start the volunteer-based, nonprofit organization Sahaya International. (Feb. 13)
- "Open Access, Cooperation and Commons: The (Uncertain) Retreat of Possessive Individualism in Networked Society" -- A Provost's Forum on the Public University and the Social Good, with Harvard law professor Yochai Benkler, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. (Feb. 13)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- DIRECTIVE: Standard mileage rate reduced for 2014
- Call for nominations: ANR Distinguished Service Awards
- Call for nominations: Student recognition awards (Mary Jeanne Gilhooly Award for Outstanding Graduating Senior Woman, Veloyce Glenn Winslow Jr. Award for Outstanding Graduating Senior Man, Social Justice and Inclusion Award, and Margarita Robinson Student Leadership Award for Outstanding Juniors (Student Affairs)
EVENTS
King Hall Legal Foundation Auction
Friday, Feb. 7; 5:30 p.m. mixer, 6:30 silent auction, 8 live auction; Freeborn Hall
Featuring donated items from students, faculty, staff, local businesses and beyond. Proceeds help fund summer grants to King Hall students working in public interest legal jobs. [ More… ]
Biodiversity Museum Day
Saturday, Feb. 8, noon-4 p.m.
Showcasing UC Davis' research collections and museums, documenting the biodiversity and history of life both in California and globally: Anthropology Collections, Bohart Museum of Entomology, Botanical Conservatory, Center for Plant Diversity, Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, and Paleontology Collections. Free. [ More… ]
ARBORETUM: Native Californian Elderberry Flute-Making Workshop
Sunday, Feb. 9, 1-3 p.m., 146 Environmental Horticulture
East Bay Regional Parks docent Antonio Flores leads another of his workshops on the culture of flute making. He also will talk about the endangered elderberry beetle. Free. All materials will be supplied; please bring sharpened pocketknives. All ages are invited; adults must supervise their young children. [ More… ]
Concert: Works by Elliott Carter and Shostakovich
Sunday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
The Department of Music presents artist-in-residence Lucy Shelton, soprano, with Mark Menzies, violin; Susan Lamb Cook, cello; and Gayle Blankenburg, piano. [ More… ]
Words Take Wing: Honoring Diversity in Children's Literature
Wednesday, Feb. 12, 6-8 p.m., Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, Sacramento Main Library, 828 I St.
The 10th anniversary Words Take Wing features the award-winning team of Andrea Davis Pinkney, writer, and Brian Pinkney, illustrator. Sponsored by the School of Education, Sutter Children's Center, Sacramento; and the Sacramento Public Library. Free; registration required. [ More… ]
ARBORETUM: Volunteer Community Planting and Mulching Days
Saturdays, Feb. 15 and 22, 10 a.m.-noon, California Native Plant Garden
The fence is down from around the arboretum's newest garden (at the east end of the waterway), but there's still work to do -- and you're invited! RSVPs are being taken online. [ More… ]
Studio 301 Productions: Night of Shorts
Saturday, Feb. 15, 8 p.m., Lab A, Wright Hall
The student-run theater troupe presents two radio plays (Lion Hunting and Help Me Doctor-Oh the Place You Won't Go) and the one-act play Sure Thing. $5 donation at the door. [ More… ]