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Our community book …It's Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, by Raj Patel, and it comes with dozens of programs on food insecurity, food justice, agricultural innovations and more. We've put together a list of "7 Ways to Immerse Yourself in the Campus Community Book Project," and you can click from there to the complete schedule for fall and winter quarters. [ More… ] … and World Food DayWhen you think about it, every day is "World Food Day" at UC Davis. But when the official day rolls around, we have even more colloquia and tours and other events on the subject of improving and increasing the world's food supply. We even have some events off-campus, but you'll be able to attend via live streams. [ More… ] |
NEWS SUMMARY
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4 new leaders: Research, GSM, Bio Sci and Education
UC Davis begins the new academic year with four new academic leaders: psychiatry and behavioral sciences professor Cameron S. Carter, interim vice chancellor, Office of Research; H. Rao Unnava, dean, Graduate School of Management; Mark Winey, dean, College of Biological Sciences; and Paul Hastings, interim dean, School of Education. Plus, updates on other recruitments. [ More… ]
Your thoughts on the next chancellor?
Faculty, staff and student organizations are asking their constituents to weigh in on the chancellor search, in two ways: online (by midnight tomorrow) and at town halls next Tuesday (Oct. 11). See the schedule. [ More… ]
Clery crime statistics for 2015 released
UC Davis released its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report late last week, notifying all employees and students by email. The report, required by the federal law known as the Clery Act, includes information about campus safety programs as well as a summary of certain categories of crimes reported on and around UC Davis property in calendar year 2015. [ More… ]
Disability Awareness, Accessible Tech Fair: Oct. 12
UC Davis' annual Disability Awareness Symposium and Accessibility Technology Fair will be held Wednesday, Oct. 12. The symposium will feature three UC Davis physicians addressing the theme, "Traumatic Brain Injuries: Myths and Realities." [ More… ]
RESEARCH: Oceanic crabs are living changed lives
The crabs, Planes minutus, give up their turtle-shell houses, settle on plastic flotsam where they abandon monogamy, according to postdoc Mike Gil and his co-author on a new paper published in the journal Biology Letters. [ More… ]
LAURELS: A dedication for a dedicated Mel Ramey
Professor Emeritus Mel Ramey's colleagues, friends and former students have established a student-support fund in his name, but that's only one reason for a celebration next week in the lobby of the Student Community Center. You see, the center is naming its lobby after him. … Plus, the American Mathematical Society features Professor Mariel Vazquez during Hispanic Heritage Month. [ More… ]
Choose cybersecure over cyberscared
What better month than October to observe Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so we can remind ourselves of all the scary stuff that can happen if we let our cyberguards down. Read about Information and Educational Technology's newest efforts to safeguard our systems, and about special activities for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. [ More… ]
NEWS BRIEFS: Ride it right, lock it tight!
Attention, bicycle riders on campus and in the city: Police are being extra vigilant to ensure you're following all traffic laws, and reminding you to be extra vigilant about locking up your bikes. Plus …
- Police board posts report, sets fall quarter meetings
- Library upgrades catalog search tool
- New ranking affirms UC Davis as top-10 public university
- $22 million boost to innovation, entrepreneurship
- UC Health and UnitedHealth to create health plan
- UC launches outreach to Boys & Girls Club members
THE DOWNLOAD: Fundraising contest, ribbon decorating, H2Oops
"Like" to help TRACS win money for lab animal science grants and scholarships. … A UC Davis student finds an incorrect molecule in a very public place. … Make your mark on the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art grand opening ribbon. … It's almost basketball season. [ More… ]
FEATURED COLLOQUIA
- "Rightlessness: Hunger Strikes, Force-Feeding and Testimony at Guantanamo" — A. Naomi Paik, assistant professor, Asian American studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will discuss her new book, which grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. (Oct. 6)
- Rodando en La Habana: bicycle stories — This documentary looks at bicycling and community in Cuba today, some 20 years after the island nation lost its supply of petroleum from the Soviet Union — and imported 1 million bikes from China. One of the filmmakers, Jennifer Ruth Hosek, will attend the screening and participate in a discussion. (Oct. 7)
- Undergraduate Research Week (Oct. 10-14)
- "Sexuality, Disability and Irrational Fear: Lessons from HIV Litigation" — Bennett Klein, senior attorney and AIDS Law Project director, GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders, or GLAD, gives the Bill Smith Memorial Lecture at the School of Law. (Oct. 11)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Recruitment for associate vice chancellor, academic diversity — UC Davis is conducting a national search to fill this senior leadership position focused on building the inclusive excellence of our faculty and academic appointees and their pivotal role in nurturing a positive campus climate, the quality of the UC Davis student experience, and enhancing diversity within the pathways through higher education.
- Recruitment for faculty director, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life — National search conducted by UC Davis and Imagining America, which will operate out of UC Davis starting next summer. Imagining America is a national consortium of nearly 100 academic institutions and cultural organizations dedicated to advancing civic engagement, democratic culture and equity within higher education, through the approaches of the arts, humanities and design.
- Call for nominations for Distinguished Emeritus/a Award — Deadline 5 p.m. Nov. 23.
EVENTS
Inaugural exhibitions at Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
It opens Nov. 13 with four exhibitions, including Out Our Way, the most comprehensive museum exhibition to date to examine the creative community that in the early 1960s propelled UC Davis into the forefront of art internationally. [ More… ]
Editor's Picks from the online calendar:
- 10th annual 'Opening Night'
Wednesday, Oct. 5: Creative Writing Program faculty members read from their newest works. - Theatre: Gospel According to First Squad
Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 6-8: The Department of Theatre and Dance presents this play about men at war in a distant land, and the stories the soldiers tell to get themselves home. - Bike Auction
Saturday, Oct. 8: Prices at the last biannual auction averaged $44.