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Made for walking

This campus was made for walking, and that’s just what we’ll do, on four 1-mile loops newly marked with colorful buttons on pavement and concrete, one loop in each campus district: Quad, Pavilion, Health Sciences and Gateway. So, start walkin’. [ More… ]

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Memorial Day Ceremony honors sacrifice

Every time the United States has faced a threat around the world, UC Davis students and alumni have been among those who took up arms to defend it — even if it cost them their lives, Army veteran Jake Smith ’03 told a crowd of about 150 people outside the Memorial Union during the campus’s annual Memorial Day Ceremony. [ More… ]

Chancellor launches staff awards program

Gary S. May asks for nominations of staff members “who consistently go above and beyond in the workplace while exhibiting our core values as affirmed in our Principles of Community.” Program is for PSS and MSP employees (policy-covered/nonrepresented) and represented employees in the Clerical Unit (CX). [ More… ]

Best brews come from cross-campus collaboration

A team with no name swept the beer awards in this year’s Staff Brewing Competition and did so with a remarkable demonstration of cross-campus collaboration — with members coming from five departments and units. [ More… ]

Parking app, ‘digital medicines’ make the ‘biggest bangs’

Two undergraduates claim the Big Bang! Business Competition’s $10,000 first prize with their Japa parking app, while Professor Tony Simon and his Cognivive team take second place for “digital medicines.” [ More… ]

LAURELS: TechHub wins Excellence in Retail Award

UC Davis Stores’ TechHub receives the 2018 Excellence in Technology Retail Award from the National Association of College Stores. … Tom Buckley moves up to chief editor of AoB Plants. … Caitlin Patler receives NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship. … Bruce Linquist shares Distinguished Rice Research and Education Award. … Plus, awards for academic advisors and entomologists. [ More… ]

RESEARCH: With seaweed in diet, cows emit less methane

Animal science professor and Sesnon Endowed Chair Ermias Kebreab reports on early results from a study he’s conducting with 12 Holstein cows in the campus’s Dairy Barn. [ More, with video… ]

NEWS BRIEFS: Celebrate at Student Disability Drop-In Center

The Student Disability Drop-In Center in the Memorial Union will have a grand opening at 1 p.m. Wednesday (May 30). All are welcome to stop by and celebrate this wonderful new resource on campus. Plus …

THE DOWNLOAD: CPR, colloquium, commencement

Learn about the PulsePoint app the UC Davis Fire Department uses to alert bystanders if they’re in the vicinity of a person in distress and might be able to help. … Hip-hop royalty visits campus for the Chancellor’s Colloquium. … Commencement season begins — and so does our annual grad cap decorating contest. [ More, with video… ]

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ARTS BLOG: Many disciplines, 1 big graduate student show

Students from art, design, art history, music, theater, creative writing and French will take part in UC Davis’ second annual Arts and Humanities Graduate Exhibition, opening Wednesday (May 30) and continuing through June 17 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. … First-year MFAs have exhibition in Sacramento. [ More… ]

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