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Dateline UC Davis

4.11.2017

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Photo illustration shows Chancellor-designate Gary S. May and his wife, LeShelle May, above the text, 'Pack the Patio'

Meet our new chancellor

Students, staff and faculty: We're all invited to a special Aggie Pride Friday (April 14), with pizza and prizes, lots of Aggie Blue and Gold, and special guests, Gary and LeShelle May, our chancellor-designate and his wife. We are packing the Memorial Union's South Patio at lunchtime, and we'll take a group photo at 12:30. Go Ags! [ More… ]

NEWS SUMMARY

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Unpredictable, rare and devastating

Hard-working tree crew reacts to limb failure that resulted in injuries to four people the afternoon of April 5, and explains the inspection and maintenance plan for the campus's 14,000 trees. [ More… ]

Campus will crown Grad Slam champion

Ten finalists will have three minutes each this Friday (April 14) to explain their research — and to do so in an interesting manner for a general university audience. (Students, staff and faculty are welcome to attend!) The grad students are vying for top prize of $1,000 and a shot at up to $5,000 more in the UC Grad Slam. [ More… ]

Liza Grandia receives Mellon fellowship

The associate professor of Native American studies will use $270,000 New Directions award to study toxicology and environmental epidemiology so she can become "a more productive interlocutor" between indigenous communities and the environmental health sciences. [ More… ]

LAURELS: Jodi Nunnari receives Lynen Medal

The German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology honors the UC Davis professor "for her groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of mitochondrial behavior in intact cells." Other honors include a sweet ride for Dean and Professor Emeritus Charley Hess in the Picnic Day Parade. [ More… ]

RESEARCH: More good news about 'good' cholesterol

"HDLs are these cool little particles" that hold the potential to provide valuable biomarkers for predicting people's susceptibility to inflammatory diseases and to certain types of infections, says Angela Zivkovic, an assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition, discussing a new study. [ More… ]

NEWS BRIEFS: 'What's up With the Arboretum Waterway?'

Major construction is underway, as you may have noticed. Learn all about it during a pair of programs, one next week and the other later in the month. Plus …

  • SiteFarm becomes available campuswide on April 17
  • Theatre option for sexual violence prevention training
  • Campus unit offers workshops on change management
  • TGFS: Thank goodness for sports, logos and good guesses
  • UC begins benefits-related family member recertification

THE DOWNLOAD: Tercero, taekwondo, tea, tryouts

See the first in a series of videos about student life at UC Davis. … UC Davis' Taekwondo Club brings home national honors. … A "tea" madness bracket. … A cappella tryouts. [ More, with video… ]

FEATURED COLLOQUIA

  • "Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden" — Lecture and photography exhibition by Lisa Barnard, senior lecturer in documentary photography, University of South Wales, discussing the "unholy alliance" of the military, the entertainment industry and technology, and their coalescence around modern-day warfare. (April 11)
  • Emerging Scholars Panel: "Researching Structural Inequity Across Learning Contexts" — Exceptional pretenure scholars from across the nation offer diverse disciplinary perspectives in education. Presented by the School of Education and the Graduate Group in Education. (April 11)
  • A Day's Work — Documentary about a man's death on his first day as a temporary employee, followed by a panel discussion about the temp staffing industry. Presented by the Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, and the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. (April 12)
  • "Dare to Repair: From DNA Chemistry to Cancer and Back Again" — A conversation with Sheila David, professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Davis, in the Science Café series. Hosted by Jared Shaw, professor of chemistry, and sponsored by the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. (April 12)
  • Art Studio Visiting Artist Lecture Series — Terry Berlier, MFA, '03, associate professor and director of the sculpture lab, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University. (April 13)
  • "Why Is My Smartphone Personalized, but My Health Care is Not?" — A community conversation presented by the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. (April 13)
  • India in the Artist's Eye — Lecture by novelist Amitav Ghosh (April 12), concert by Prahlad Singh Tipanya (April 13) and the first part of "Persistence Resistance," a festival of contemporary documentaries from the Indian subcontinent (April 17).
  • Starving the Beast — Documentary and discussion with the filmmaker, Steve Mims. The Starving the Beast website says the film "examines the ongoing power struggle on college campuses ... as political and market-oriented forces push to disrupt and reform America's public universities." (April 13)
  • 2017 Research Expo — 11 a.m.-3 p.m. April 18, with your choice of three workshops from 2 to 3 p.m.: "Best Practices for Publishing in Journals" (led by Elsevier), "Science Communication and Informal Education: Partnering with the Exploratorium for Strategic Impact," and "Updates and Trends in Federal Regulations of Research."
  • "Coral Reefs, Ocean Acidification and Transformation of Global Energy Systems" — Ken Caldeira, climate scientist, Carnegie Institution for Science, gives this talk in the Chancellor's Colloquium Distinguished Speaker Series. RSVPs requested. (April 19; colloquium starts at 4 p.m., reception at 5:30)

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