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 A Fresh FocusForget the produce truck: These fruits and vegetables go by bike cart from the Student Farm to the ASUCD's Pantry, for distribution with other foodstuffs to students in need. A new program called A Fresh Focus, developed and run by students with a Go Green Grant from Dining Services, picks up and delivers the produce. [ More, with video… ] |
NEWS SUMMARY
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Meyer award for entomologist Flint
"We are fortunate that she chose to spend her career here at UC Davis. Her name is synonymous with IPM (integrated pest management), pest control alternatives and public service, not just in California and the United States, but worldwide," Professor Michael Parrella says of entomologist Mary Louise Flint, recipient of the Academic Federation's 2014 James H. Meyer Distinguished Achievement Award for careerlong contributions to the university's mission. [ More… ]
$5 million gift for classroom-recital hall
It will be called the Ann E. Pitzer Center, in honor of the donor. She graduated from UC Davis in 1958 with a degree in home economics and was a longtime and active supporter of the university. She died Oct.15. [ More… ]
Research: More bad news for antimicrobial in soap
Triclosan's risk to human health may outweigh the antimicrobial's benefits, say UC researchers, including UC Davis' Bruce D. Hammock. Reporting on a study of long-term exposure, the researchers said lab mice developed liver fibrosis and cancer through molecular mechanisms that are also relevant in people. The Food and Drug Administration is already scrutinizing triclosan for other possible adverse effects. [ More… ]
- 'Tis the season to indulge in walnuts — Mice fared better in another study: Diets rich in whole walnuts or walnut oil slowed the growth of prostate cancer in the test subjects.
- EGGHEAD: Advances in electron microscopy reveal secrets of HIV and other viruses
FAPESP Symposium: Discussing potential collaborations
The Office of Research and the Office of Global Affairs, and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo Research Foundation) bring together UC Davis and Brazilian researchers to address topics of common research interest and engage in discussions of potential collaborations. Session themes include sustainable energy, environmental and marine sciences, agriculture, health, and social sciences and humanities. Accompanied by an art exhibition, "Brazilian Nature: Mystery and Destiny," on the second and third floors of the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. [ More… ]
Teaching the teaching assistants how to teach effectively
Undergraduate Education and its Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning send out a new corps of teaching assistants, after a full day of training before classes begin. [ More… ]
Global Food Initiative Student Fellowships awarded
Jessica West, an undergraduate, and Ryan Dowdy and Sophie Sapp, graduate students, have been selected as the UC Davis recipients of UC President's Global Food Initiative Student Fellowships. Each student receives a $2,500 stipend to support their research related to food security, health and sustainability. [ More… ]
OPEN ENROLLMENT: 1 week to go!
Among your choices, to be decided by 5 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 25): Transfer to a different medical or dental plan, increase your waiting period (and lower your premium cost) for supplemental disability insurance (for people who are now signed up for seven- or 30-day waiting periods), and enroll in flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care expenses (these accounts do not renew automatically). There is lots of help available online: medical plan overview (in slides and streaming video), and short videos from UCOP. [ More… ]
NEWS BRIEFS: Mail Services food drive ends Friday
The Mail Services Holiday Food Drive ends this Friday (Nov. 21); leave your donations with your outgoing mail, and mail personnel will do the rest! Plus…
- Gov. Brown appoints 2 new regents
- Medicare-covered lung cancer screening
TRENDING: Hoops, beats, more hoops
How cool is this? Men's basketball promo video. … #ThrowbackThursday: KDVS in the '70s and today. … "Packed house tonight at the Pavilion! #BEatUCONN #GoAgs" — in fact, the Aggie game against UConn drew a record crowd for women's basketball at UC Davis: 4,712.
FEATURED COLLOQUIA
- Environmental Justice Project Annual Book Lecture — UC Berkeley's Carolyn Finney discusses her newly published Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors. (Nov. 18)
- "Use of Digital Technology to Improve STEM Learning" — Sanjoy Mahajan, acting director, Digital Residential Education, and visiting professor, electrical engineering and computer science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Nov. 18)
- Campus Community Book Project — "Inequalities in Childhood Disability Identification and Special Education Placement," Jacob Hibel, assistant professor, sociology (Nov. 19); "Capes, Not Canes: Disability in Comics," Karma Waltonen, lecturer, University Writing Program (Nov. 20); and Temple Grandin, film (Nov. 24).
- "Critical Issues in Food and Agriculture: 2014" — A policy briefing by Karen Ross, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Her talk at UC Center Sacramento will be presented by videoconference on the Davis campus. (Nov. 19)
- Storer Lectureships in Life Sciences — With Nobel Laureate Rolf M. Zinkernagel, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, 1996. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Zurich. (Nov. 19 and 20)
- "Creating a Culture of Excellence and Trustworthiness in Research Universities" — Academic Senate workshop. (Nov. 20)
- "Knowledge Is (Less) Power" — David Rapson, assistant professor, economics, discussing recent research in energy economics and behavioral psychology, including whether consumers are "rational" and how to get them to do what we want: conserve energy and resources. At UC Center Sacramento. (Nov. 20)
- Provost's Forum on the Public University and the Social Good—"Keeping Track of One's Moral Compass Despite Pressures to Lose It: How a Public University Can Maintain Its Integrity," Haavi Morreim, professor of human values and ethics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. (Nov. 20)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Dean search, College of Engineering — Town hall meetings Dec. 1 and 3 to discuss the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for the next dean, and the characteristics most important for the university to consider in recruiting and screening candidates. Multiple sessions are planned each day: Monday, Dec. 1 — undergraduate and graduate students; staff; and a general session for faculty, staff and students. Wednesday, Dec. 3 — faculty; undergraduate and graduate students; staff; and a general session for faculty, staff and students.
- Call for nominations: Chancellor's Achievement Awards for Diversity and Community
- Call for nominations: Excellence in Research Awards (Academic Federation)
- Call for nominations: Excellence in Teaching Awards (Academic Federation)
- Nomination deadline Nov. 21: Faculty Research Lecture Award (Academic Senate)
- Orders due for commencement attire for fall
EVENTS
International Education Week
Through Friday, Nov. 21
"Find your international experience" in a variety of events. For students, faculty and staff. [ More… ]
WORKLIFE AND WELLNESS: Herbal Holiday Gifts
Thursday, Nov. 20, noon-1 p.m., multipurpose room, Student Community Center
Kami McBride of the Living Awareness Institute brings a treasure chest of recipes and ideas for herbal holiday gift giving. Free; no preregistration. [ More… ]
'An Evening with Some Italians'
Thursday, Nov. 20, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Sensory Theater, Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science
Discussion of European wine policy with Paola Corsinovi and Davide Gaeta (authors of the new book Economics, Governance and Politics in the Wine Market: European Union Developments), followed by wine tasting. Registration required ($15). [ More… ]
THEATER: The Gambling Lady (The Bassett Table)
Thursday-Sunday, Nov. 20-23, Main Theatre, Wright Hall
Written by Susannah Centlivre, directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence Fidelis Morgan, who included the 18th-century play in her book The Female Wits and thereby rescued The Gambling Lady from near oblivion. The play has all the ingredients Morgan loves: It's theatrical, has a racy subject — gambling — and features a large ensemble cast, including some very strong female characters. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets. [ More… ]
MUSIC: Noon Concert and Symphony Orchestra
Thursday and Saturday, Nov. 20 and 22, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
Nov. 20: Mezzo-soprano Blythe Gaissert, with Eric Zivian, piano, in the Shinkoskey Noon Concert series (free). Nov. 22: Gaissert also sings with the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, in a concert titled "Love, Death and Pranks." Christian Baldini conducts Mozart's Overture to Idomeneo; Mahler's Rückert Lieder (with Gaissert), Wagner's Vorspiel und Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde; and Richard Strauss' Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche. Tickets. [ More… ]
FOOTBALL: Causeway Classic
Saturday, Nov. 22, 1 p.m., Aggie Stadium
The 61st annual meeting between UC Davis (1-6 in the Big Sky Conference) and Sac State (3-4 in the Big Sky). [ More… ]
'Insect Myths' at Bohart Museum of Entomology
Sunday, Nov. 23, 1-4 p.m., 1124 Academic Surge
Bees bite, right? Butterflies and moths can't fly if you rub the scales off their wings, right? Wrong. The museum dispels these myths and others during an open house. Free. [ More… ]