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Photo: Stephanie Hare atop Eye on Mrak (Fatal Laff) sculpture

'UC Davis in 30 Seconds'

There's only one UC Davis. From the waters of Lake Tahoe, to a doctor's visit via telemedicine, to the stage of the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, the UC Davis community is working together to change the world and one another. Watch our new promotional video (and, after that, go behind the scenes to hear the video's stars, Aggie students, tell why UC Davis is the one for them). We've posted other stories, too, and we welcome yours. [ More, with video… ]

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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… ]

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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… ]

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