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 Balancing ballet with booksWatch this stunning minidocumentary about the Davis Ballet Company, whose co-founders and members — all students at UC Davis — have given up the dream, rigor and reward of professional ballet in exchange for college degrees. This diverse, dedicated group of students has come together to provide dancers at UC Davis an outlet to practice and perform ballet, while still focusing on school. [ Video… ] |
NEWS SUMMARY
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UC Davis Foundation Board raises $1 million-plus for students
Current and emeriti members of the foundation board and UC Davis administrators — led by board Chair Bruce Edwards '60 — personally gave $1.04 million to create a universitywide matching fund to endow student scholarships, fellowships and awards. In a video posted on Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi's blog, Edwards says: "I get more out of giving, I think, than the people that receive." [ More… ]
3 teams compete for art museum design and construction
UC Davis taps three innovative architect-contractor teams to compete in the creation of a design for the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. Each team will have four months to create a design and prepare a bid. The competition will culminate in public presentations followed by announcement of the winning design. [ More… ]
Chancellor's fellows: Honoring 'truly extraordinary accomplishments'
The new chancellor's fellows are Toby Allen, chemistry; Mary Cadenasso, plant sciences; Catherine Chin, religious studies; Christina Cogdell, design; Nicholas Curro, physics; Nael El-Farra, chemical engineering and materials science; and Peter Lee, law. Each receives a $25,000 prize and retains the chancellor's fellow title for five years. [ More… ]
Campus counsel's office to be enhanced; new chief to be recruited
Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi says the Office of the Campus Counsel will be enhanced and a new chief campus counsel hired to better accommodate evolving needs, including "additional expertise and experience in negotiating research and service agreements with a diverse business community [and] broader experience dealing with a variety of increasingly complex political entities." Read the chancellor's letter and recruitment committee roster for the chief counsel post. [ More… ]
Men dominate California's top corporate boardrooms, executive suites
The Graduate School of Management's eighth annual UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders paints a dismal picture for women in corporate leadership among California's 400 biggest public companies. Some of the state's best known companies have no female leaders. [ More… ]
Cheering microbes into space
Microbiologist Jonathan Eisen and a professional cheerleader (who's also a grad student) are teaming up with "citizen scientists" to send microbes to the International Space Station and study their growth. [ More… ]
Opening soon: A 'new' road that's still 'old'
The last section of the "new" Old Davis Road, which could be open by mid-December, will take cars off the section of Old Davis Road that runs alongside the arboretum waterway — freeing the old road for bicyclists and pedestrians only. … The west entry gate on Hutchison Drive is being pushed out, toward La Rue Road, about 400 yards — making for an expanded "campus core" where most cars and trucks are prohibited. It is a safety project, reflecting increased foot and bike traffic along this section of Hutchison. [ More… ]
Safety Spotlight: Are you ready?
Emergency preparedness at home and on campus, how to "shelter in place," plus a downloadable poster, "Are You Prepared … for the First 72 Hours?" The December-January issue also addresses heater and generator safety, and how to help children cope with disaster. [ More… ]
NEWS BRIEFS: Vanderhoef recovering from stroke
Chancellor Emeritus Larry Vanderhoef is making good progress in his recovery from a Dec. 1 stroke. … Holiday memo on heat, lights, buses, coffee, food and more. … "More Cash Per Splash" seminar looks at water quality and water efficiency in California agriculture and horticulture. … Santa Paws is coming to town to have his picture taken with your pets — and to raise money for the School of Veterinary Medicine's Mercer clinic for the pets of homeless people. … UC Davis Stores has launched the Aggie Kickbacks Customer Rewards Program. [ More… ]
DIRECTIVES and ANNOUNCEMENTS
No directives or announcements were issued this week.
EVENTS
The Bacchae and Dead Man's Cell Phone
Today (Dec. 7)-Saturday, 8 p.m., Main Theatre (The Bacchae); today-Sunday, 8 p.m., Wyatt Pavilion Theatre (Dead Man's Cell Phone)
The Department of Theatre and Dance turns Euripides' Dionysus into a wickedly sexy rock star and the Bacchae into his groupies. The institute within the department presents the Sarah Ruhl comedy Dead Man's Cell Phone, with free admission. [ More… ]
University Chorus and Symphony Orchestra
Today (Dec. 7), 7 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center
The Pacific Boychoir joins in a program of Mozart (Te Deum and Laudate Dominum from Vesperae solennes de confessore), Beethoven (Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra) and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Requiem). [ More… ]
Blue-Gold intrasquad gymnastics
Saturday, Dec. 8, 1 p.m., Hickey Gymnastics Center
Watch our Aggies perform on the vault, uneven bars and mat at this free event. [ More… ]