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Photo: New weir in Arboretum Waterway, sans water

Waterway: Ready, set, flow

By the end of this month, we expect the new weirs to be completed in the eastern half of the Arboretum Waterway, and to see water going through the weirs over a 15-inch drop in elevation — creating a gentle flow to Lake Spafford. See the latest update from the waterway steward. [ More… ]

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Recruiting for 2 VCs, chief campus counsel

Chancellor Gary S. May launches national searches for two vice chancellors (Human Health Sciences and Office of Research) and chief campus counsel. [ More… ]

Chancellor, UC system fight back on DACA

"Turning our backs on (DACA) students is not who we are," Chancellor Gary S. May says, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that the Trump administration says it will end. UC President Janet Napolitano also speaks out and joins with the Board of Regents in a lawsuit to preserve the program. Meanwhile, Napolitano and all the chancellors urge DACA students to file renewal applications. [ More… ]

Consortium takes on California's $14 billion killer

The UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center and UC's four other academic cancer centers have formed the UC Cancer Consortium to better address a disease that is poised to overtake heart diseases as the leading cause of death in California. This year alone, 176,000 state residents will be diagnosed with cancer and nearly 60,000 will die from it. The estimated cost burden of cancer in California is $14 billion annually. [ More… ]

UCNET: Survey results show improved staff engagement

A record number of responses — more than 10,500 — show significant improvements from 2015 in a number of areas, including supervision and performance management, and an increase in overall engagement. [ More… ]

The Mays host 1st Breakfast With the Chancellor

Staff Assembly leaders and others talk with Gary and LeShelle May about TGFS (they're ready to sign up for the 5K), the chancellor's current focus, his "listening tour," national politics and his thoughts on current events. [ More… ]

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INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

TRANSITIONS: New directors, new chief, new counsel

Katharina Ullmann, Ph.D. '14, returns to campus as the new director of the Student Farm. Plus … Kent Pinkerton, director of the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety; Kimberley McAllister, director of the Center for Neuroscience; Shondella Reed, senior campus counsel; and Joseph A. Farrow, sworn in as the campus's new police chief. [ More… ]

BOOKS: The blues, shadows and mythopoetic cinema

Julia Simon, a professor of French, writes about music in Time in the Blues, an interdisciplinary analysis of the forms of temporality produced by and reflected in the blues within the historical context of Jim Crow segregation, sharecropping, racist violence and migration. Plus … Sasha Abramsky's Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream, and Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli's Mythopoetic Cinema: On the Ruins of European Identity. [ More… ]

NEWS BRIEFS: WHA, UC Davis Medical Group still options

UC says Western Health Advantage will remain a benefit choice for employees and retirees in 2018, and that those who choose WHA will have access to UC Davis Medical Group. Plus …

THE DOWNLOAD: Sun power & stars, small screen & big screen

See UC Davis' entry in the U.S. Department of Energy's 2017 Solar Decathlon before it heads to Colorado. … Coach Jim Les is a featured guest at a Sacramento Kings coaching clinic. … UC Davis is featured on the small screen, in a new Netflix movie. … Aggie Stadium has a new big screen. [ More, with video… ]

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FALL EXHIBITIONS: Lots to see and hear

The visual includes photographic exhibitions; and a multidisciplinary installation that explores and celebrates the biology, beauty and bounty of the Pacific Flyway. And, for listening, we have 33 1/3, the composer John Cage's first participatory work, which he debuted at UC Davis nearly 50 years ago, in Freeborn Hall. The Manetti Shrem Museum, featuring the Cage exhibition and Dimensions in Black, reopens to the public this Sunday (Sept. 17). [ More… ]

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