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Students, staff, faculty invited to town hall on police practices
UC Davis student leaders Katheryn Kolesar and Adam Thongsavat will be the co-hosts for a town hall meeting here today (Feb. 10) on UC police policies and procedures around the university system. The town hall, from 4 to 6 p.m., is one of three in a listening tour where students, staff and faculty are invited to share their opinions with UC General Counsel Charles Robinson and UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Christopher Edley Jr. [ More… ]
Black Family Week comes amid a whole month of activities
If you thought Native American Culture Days came early this academic year, you're right. Black Family Week is coming early, too — next week, in fact, due to some strategic calendar adjustments by the Cross Cultural Center. With the switch, not all the activities are crammed into one week — so take a look at the schedule for the week and for the rest of the month of February. [ More… ]
Research for your Valentine: Relationships that work
Despite life's ups and downs, couples whose feelings are in sync consistently over time are more likely to stay together, says a study by a UC Davis psychologist. A second UC Davis study suggests why monogamy has become the dominant marriage institution in recent centuries, replacing the polygamy once practiced by 85 percent of the world's societies. [ More… ]
How DNA finds its match
It's been more than 50 years since James Watson and Francis Crick showed that DNA is a double helix of two strands that complement each other. But how does a short piece of DNA find its match, out of the millions of "letters" in even a small genome? A new UC Davis study published online in the journal Nature this week shows how it's done. [ More… ]
3-D laser map shows earthquake zone before and after
Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape down to a few inches, and it's giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. In today's issue of the journal Science, an international team of scientists led by a UC Davis geologist reports the most comprehensive before-and-after picture yet of an earthquake zone, using data from the magnitude 7.2 event that struck near Mexicali in April 2010. [ More… ]
Health system partners with state to improve Medi-Cal care
UC Davis' Institute for Population Health Improvement, as part of a five-year, $4.25 million agreement with the state Department of Health Care Services, will design and support a statewide quality improvement plan for the $46-billion-a-year Medi-Cal program. [ More… ]
Directing stem cells to increase bone formation and bone strength
A research team led by UC Davis Health System scientists has developed a novel technique for enhancing bone growth by using a molecule that, when injected into the bloodstream, directs the body's stem cells to travel to the surface of bones. [ More… ]
News briefs: Weekend of Service recruits faculty, staff
The Community Service Resource Center is reaching out to faculty and staff to lend a hand (actually, a lot of hands) during the next Weekend of Service, Feb. 25-26. … The Academic Staff and Assistance Program announced a pair of programs to ease your mind: a once-a-week meditation class and a brown bag meeting on "Emotional Intelligence … Your Hidden Edge." ... Children and parents join the new student group Wild Campus in providing bird, owl, bat and bee boxes for the arboretum and elsewhere on campus. [ More… ]
DIRECTIVES and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Announcements: Administrative advisory committees, librarian forums
Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi is encouraging students, staff and faculty to apply for membership on administrative advisory committees for 2012-13. … Public forums with three candidates for university librarian are scheduled for Feb. 21, 23 and 28. [ More… ]
EVENTS
Biodiversity Museum Day
Sunday, Feb. 12, 1-4 p.m.
Open houses at four museums and centers that engage in education and research involving insects, vertebrates or plants: the Bohart Museum of Entomology, Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, and Botanical Conservatory (all 1-4 p.m.); and the Center for Plant Diversity (2-4 p.m.). [ More… ]
MFA thesis choreographies: dis/connect and Light Phases
Feb. 16-18 and 23-25, 8 p.m.; Feb. 19 and 26, 2 p.m.; Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center
Back-to-back choreographies by graduating Master of Fine Arts candidates Folawole and Kevin O'Connor. [ More… ]
'A Perfect Circadian Day: Examining the Daylight-Darkness Health Connection'
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 5:30 p.m., Conference Center Ballroom
A fast-paced multimedia presentation in which lighting design experts James R. Benya and Deborah Burnett discuss the consequences of living in a world of windowless spaces, light-based electronic devices and 24/7 activity. RSVPs requested. [ More… ]