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50 years of home cooking

The ASUCD Coffee House throws an anniversary party next week, with staff members wearing the styles of decades past and playing the music of those eras — all the while serving up the home cooking that UC Davis has loved since 1968. The week also includes a speakers series with CoHo alums, including Chef Joe Sasto of Top Chef and Chopped. [ More… ]

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Ecologist Susan Harrison elected to national academy

Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy receives one of the highest honors in science. She researches plant species diversity, focusing recently on the effects of climatic drying on plant life in California grasslands. [ More… ]

2 win creativity-innovation awards

UC Davis this year is giving not one but two Early Career Faculty Awards for Creativity and Innovation. The recipients of the $40,000 awards are Lillian Cruz-Orengo, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine; and Jaroslav Trnka, Department of Physics, College of Letters and Science. [ More… ]

Chief justice among commencement speakers

Commencement season begins in May with the schools of Law, Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Speakers include two alumni, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, J.D. ’84; and Andrew Clark ’75, D.V.M. ’77; and a medical professor, Paul Aronowitz. [ More… ]

CHANCELL-ING: A Mother’s Day tribute

Chancellor Gary S. May writes to say thank you to his inspirational mom ... for teaching him the importance of education (“and for buying me all those jigsaw puzzles, models, the Lego kit and Erector set as a kid”), for showing him what it means to be a pioneer and for encouraging him to speak out. [ More… ]

‘BY PHILANTHROPY’: Celebration and gratitude

The development office has adorned the campus with blue bows highlighting some of what UC Davis has realized “by philanthropy” — places like the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, and the La Rue Softball Field. There’s also a website with stories of people, places and things that have benefited from the generosity of donors. [ More… ]

2 new agreements between UC Davis, Australia

Global Affairs and the Office of Research announce separate partnerships with Australian entities: Global Affairs with Hort Innovation, for research in horticulture; and the Office of Research with CSIRO, the country’s premier national science organization, for research in agriculture and more. [ More… ]

RESEARCH: Possible biomarker for social deficit in autism

UC Davis and Stanford scientists see a commonality in the cerebrospinal fluid of “low social” rhesus macaques and children with autism spectrum disorder, who, among other characteristics, have reduced social ability. [ More… ]

NEWS BRIEFS: Atkinson assumes AVC role permanently

Sheri Atkinson has been appointed associate vice chancellor for Student Life, Campus Community and Retention Services. A 15-year administrator in Student Affairs, she had held the AVC post on an interim basis since December. Plus …

THE DOWNLOAD: International treatment, national champions

A UC Davis veterinarian’s technique of using fish skin to help treat burns has gone international. … UC Davis is ‘on the map.’ … The women’s water polo sport club wins a second consecutive national championship. … New center in Memorial Union is part of a new Basic Needs Week. [ More, with video… ]

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Chancellor hosts GZA for ‘Evening of Songs and Science’

The May 21 Chancellor’s Colloquium will feature Gary Grice, who, like the January speaker, Alan Alda, is an entertainer-turned-science educator. Grice, a rapper known as GZA, who is a founding member of the seminal hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, will give a presentation titled “Dark Matter: An Evening of Songs and Science.” Free and open to the public (tickets required and available now). [ More… ]

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