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NEWS SUMMARY
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Half the Sky: Co-author Kristof visits next week
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof is coming to UC Davis next week to discuss his book Half the Sky, which many of us have been reading in the 2013-14 Campus Community Book Project. He will participate in a free forum, "All Hands on Deck: Supporting Women in STEM," from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday (Jan. 13), and give a talk at 8 p.m. the same day (tickets required). [ More… ]
Good-bad cholesterol seen as factor in Alzheimer's disease
Much as they correlate to cardiovascular disease, "good" cholesterol and "bad" cholesterol appear to also be hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, UC Davis researchers have found. "Unhealthy patterns of cholesterol could be directly causing the higher levels of amyloid (plaque deposits in the brain) known to contribute to Alzheimer's, in the same way that such patterns promote heart disease," says Bruce Reed, lead study author and associate director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center. [ More… ]
Detecting gastric cancer early — it's in the sugars
UC Davis leads an international effort to identify glycans — sugars attached to proteins — that could help clinicians diagnose gastric cancer before it becomes deadly. [ More… ]
LAURELS: Abramsky's poverty book a N.Y. Times 'notable'
Sasha Abramsky, writing instructor and freelance journalist, is on The New York Times' list of "100 Notable Books of 2013," for The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives. … Plus, honors for professors Neil Flynn, John Iacovelli, Kyriacos Athanasiou, Subhash Mahajan and Stephen Cramer; and Student Affairs' marketing-communications director, Nefretiri Cooley-Broughton, named to the Sacramento Business Journal's "40 Under 40" list of "young professionals already making their mark in the Sacramento region." [ More… ]
APPOINTMENT: New director for GSM's innovation institute
He's a distinguished alumnus of the Graduate School of Management (2004) and he's taught there, developing a course in social entrepreneurship that resulted in numerous successful student startups. Now Cleveland Justis, an accomplished organizational leader with more than two decades of experience, has returned as the new executive director of the Child Family Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. [ More… ]
NEWS BRIEFS: Beer awaits in annual butterfly contest
No butterfly, no beer — not yet — in Professor Art Shapiro's annual contest in which he and others go in search of the first cabbage white of the new year. … A MIND Institute study is among the "Top 10 Advances in Autism Research" for 2013, as selected by the advocacy organization Autism Speaks. … The city of Dixon's housing element, part of the general plan, is due for an update; a community workshop is set for Jan. 16 to discuss the process. [ More… ]
CHANCELLOR'S COLLOQUIUM: 'Why Persian Humanism Matters Today'
Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi next week hosts a talk by Columbia University Professor Hamid Dabashi, addressing "Why Persian Humanism Matters Today." He is a guest in the 2013-14 Chancellor's Colloquium Distinguished Speaker Series, free and open to the public. [ More… ]
MORE FEATURED COLLOQUIA
- War on Poverty Conference — The Center for Poverty Research and the All-University of California Group in Economic History present this conference marking the War on Poverty's 50th anniversary. (Jan. 9-10)
- "Floods, Droughts and Lawsuits: Managing California's Water" — The Emeriti and Retirees associations present another in a series of Brainfood Talks, this one by Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Mount, founding director of the Center for Watershed Sciences. (Jan. 9, free and open to the public)
- "Linking Knowledge with Action for Sustainability" — Harvard Professor William C. Clark, in the Agricultural Sustainability Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series. (Jan. 14)
- "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. (Jan. 15)
ANNOUNCEMENT
- Deadline for nominations: Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Awards (Academic Senate), Jan. 17.
EVENTS
NEW EXHIBITIONS: Textiles and Flat Fusion Five
Winter quarter
The C.N. Gorman Museum presents Receiver, in which textile artist Marie Watt shows a new body of a work and a work in progress, 408 feet long and full of symbolism. The Design Museum presents The Verve of Quilted Textiles, African American quilts given from the collection of Sandra McPherson, professor emerita of English. The Craft Center Gallery opens the winter quarter with Flat Fusion Five, the first solo exhibition by Matan Shelomi, a Ph.D. candidate in entomology and nematology, and a longtime volunteer at the Craft Center. [ More… ]
ARBORETUM: Walk with Warren
Wednesday, Jan. 8, noon-1 p.m., gazebo
Join Warren Roberts, superintendent emeritus of the arboretum and famous storyteller and punster, for an always engaging noontime exploration of the arboretum's gardens and plant collections. [ More… ]
WORKLIFE BROWN BAG: The Organized Office
Thursday, Jan. 9, noon-1 p.m., multipurpose room, Student Community Center
Hundreds or even thousands of unsorted messages in your email inbox? Paper piling up on your desk or kitchen counter? Claudia Smith of Clear Your Clutter Consulting has some practical solutions, to be presented in a light-hearted way. No preregistration. [ More… ]
THEATRE AND DANCE: Finding as Making/Singing No Songs
Thursday-Friday, Jan. 9-10, Lab A, Wright Hall
An improvised piece for voice and electronics, by Gretchen Jude, doctoral candidate in performance studies. The "antimonumental and ambient work" explores a person's embodied relations to technology and the environment. Walking, listening, recording and vocalizing form the core of the piece. 6-7 p.m. Jan. 9 and 8-9 p.m. Jan. 10. Free (suggested donation $5). [ More… ]
MUSIC: Basset clarinetist Hoeprich with London Haydn string quartet
Friday, Jan. 10, 7 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
Hoeprich, who grew up in Davis, is on the faculty of the Conservatoire de Paris, the Royal Conservatory of Music (The Hague) and Indiana University (Bloomington). As a musician, scholar and instrument maker, he has a unique approach to the clarinet repertoire of the 18th and 19th centuries. The London Haydn Quartet specializes in playing with classical bows and gut strings. [ More… ]
School of Medicine benefit: Silent Auction & Wine Tasting
Saturday, Jan. 11, 5:30-9 p.m., Education Building, 4610 X St., Sacramento
This annual fundraiser — now in its 34th year — supports student-run community health clinics. [ More… ]
BOHART OPEN HOUSE: Snuggle Bugs
Sunday, Jan. 12, 1-4 p.m., 1124 Academic Surge
The Bohart Museum of Entomology is normally closed on weekends, except during open houses like this one, free and open to the public. [ More… ]