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Storms, STEM portal, travel rules — 1.10.17
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NEWS SUMMARY
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Crews help campus weather the storms
One storm down, one still happening — and no major damage on campus thanks to prep work by facilities and grounds crews. [ More… ]
Expressing ourselves at UC Davis
The campus's new Student Expression website includes three sections: Learn (freedom of expression FAQs, for example), Act (how to exercise our rights) and Get Support (for a variety of situations). [ More… ]
LRDP process enters environmental phase
The campus's new Long Range Development Plan is in draft form, and now begins the environmental review, starting with public review and comment on the scope of the EIR. An open house is scheduled for Jan. 25. [ More… ]
UC Davis hosts UN summit on sustainability in Africa
Our campus partners with UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco and Stanford on "U.N. Sustainable Development Goals Conference: Research to Action on the African Continent," scheduled for Jan. 23. [ More… ]
New portal unites campus STEM network
A project of the STEM Strategies group in the Office of the Provost, the portal is aimed at helping students discover opportunities to engage in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) all around the campus. [ More… ]
LAURELS: 'Sexual Violence Awareness' campaign wins award
UC Davis staff members earn platinum for integrated marketing campaign that uses social media, banners, printed materials and "AggieSnap" videos. Plus …
- Plant breeder Allen Van Deynze earns national recognition, plus honors for David Traill (classics), Eva Mroczek (religious studies), Liz Applegate (nutrition), Brianne Holden (Study Abroad), Daniel Leyson (men's water polo) and four academic advisors
- 7 from UC Davis inducted into International Educators' Hall of Fame
- Cal Aggie Alumni Association announces awards
GIFTS AND GRANTS: $2 million endowment for staff brewer
Gift from Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. establishes an endowment to provide ongoing funding for a full-time staff brewing position, focused on excellence in hands-on brewing education in the Department of Food Science and Technology. [ More… ]
RESEARCH: Hill-climbing cows may help rangeland sustainability
Professor Juan Medrano is working to develop an easy, inexpensive genetic test to be used in cattle breeding, as a means to boost a trait for traveling. Then, more of the animals may amble upward for their food, and there would be less potential for overgrazing the lowlands. [ More… ]
NEWS BRIEFS: New rules enacted for travel to 4 states
As of Jan. 1, UC Davis is prohibited (with some exceptions) from using state funds to pay for UC-related travel to Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee, or requiring any affiliates to travel to those states regardless of funding source. Plus …
- Transitioning to Retirement series start Jan. 13
- Campus seeks emergency response volunteers
- More A-permit parking in Lot 5
- Picnic Day board seeks exhibit applications
- Arboretum volunteer applications due Jan. 20
- Coach Hawkins beats drum for Aggie football 2017
- TRANSITION: Jaimey Fisher takes helm of DHI
ICYMI: Dateline posts from winter break
- UC Davis the greenest university in the world
- Applications hit record, show more diversity
- New veterinary medical center on the drawing board
THE DOWNLOAD: Fantasy Bars, beer, hydrogen, snow
And the trophy for best staff-baked treat goes to … . Once the weather clears, a butterfly could earn you a pitcher of beer. … A researcher on campus explains what it's like living with a hydrogen-fueled car. … Sure, it's raining — but at least it's not snowing in Davis. [ More… ]
FEATURED COLLOQUIA
Chancellor, museum host artists-writers Plagens and Fendrich
The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art hosts a talk this coming Sunday by painter and writer Peter Plagens, discussing UC Davis' early art faculty; and three days later the Chancellor's Colloquium hosts another painter and writer, Laurie Fendrich, addressing "The Downside of Art." Besides being artists, they both write about art and they are husband and wife. [ More… ]
More featured colloquia:
- Book Chat With Chunjie Zhang — She's an assistant professor of German at UC Davis, and she'll be talking about her new book, Transculturality and German Discourse in the Age of European Colonialism. Sponsored by the UC Davis Humanities Institute. (Jan. 11)
- "Life With Autism" — New York Times bestselling author John Elder Robison gives this talk in the MIND Institute's Distinguished Lecturer Series, sharing his experience of living with Asperger's syndrome, a subtype of autism. (Jan. 11)
- "Tools of the Pornithologist: Using Robots to Spy on the Sex Lives of Birds" — A conversation with Gail L. Patricelli, professor, Department of Evolution and Ecology, in the Science Café series, hosted by Jared Shaw, associate professor of chemistry, and sponsored by the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. (Jan. 11)
- Documentary: The Garden — About a 14-acre community garden developed by residents of South Central Los Angeles to promote healing, build community and feed their families after rioting in the city in 1992. Co-sponsored by the Campus Community Book Project. (Jan. 11)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Call for nominations for the Charles P. Nash Prize — For exceptional and extended commitment to shared governance, as demonstrated by promoting faculty interests, especially as realized through the equitable treatment of faculty and advocacy on behalf of others. Deadline Feb. 3.
- Public forums with two of the three finalists for the position of associate vice chancellor, Academic Diversity — Candidate B (Jan. 11) and Candidate C (Jan. 12). (A public forum for Candidate A was held Jan. 9.)
- Call for nominations for Academic Federation awards — Excellence in Research and Excellence in Teaching, deadline for both Jan. 20.
EVENTS
'Well-being' ticket deal: $10 for Les Ballets Trockadero
The Mondavi Center and the Staff and Faculty Health and Well-Being Program are partnering to offer $10 tickets for staff and faculty to a selected show, once a month. Up next: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Jan. 29, but the $10 ticket offer expires Jan. 16. [ More… ]
More Editor's Picks from the online calendar:
- Staff-Faculty Appreciation Days at Amazon@UC Davis
Through Jan. 20: Prizes and demonstrations at package pickup-return center. - AT THE ARBORETUM
Wednesday, Jan. 11: Walk With Warren
Saturday, Jan. 14: Winter Birds in Davis, slideshow and tour - CAREER CATALYST: How Fear Can Propel Your Career
Thursday, Jan. 12: Interactive workshop, no preregistration required. - Noon Concert: Music for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord
Thursday, Jan. 12: First in the weekly series of free concerts this winter quarter.