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Fall Welcome: Be a heroCapes are optional at Fall Welcome, this coming Monday (Sept. 24), but Chancellor Gary S. May plans on sending you off with something just as good: an #AggieHeroes T-shirt. Oh, and free dinner, too! [ More… ] |
NEWS SUMMARY
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CHANCELL-ING: To the top of the charts
“We’re on a roll,” says the chancellor, with four top 10 rankings in a month … “the perfect boost as we emerge from summer and the fall quarter starts on Sept. 24.” [ More… ]
Emerging leaders come to and from UC Davis
Under the auspices of the American Council on Education, Lowell Davis of Western Carolina University is spending the academic year at UC Davis working with Chancellor Gary S. May and Provost Ralph J. Hexter, while John Marx, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of English, is shadowing President Elizabeth Hillman at Mills College. [ More… ]
Center bathed in purple in memorial tribute
The Mondavi Center for the Performing honors Barbara K. Jackson with a nighttime display of her favorite color and dedicates the Oct. 4 Rising Stars of Opera concert as a celebration of her life in music. [ More… ]
Our newest topic page: Advancing Health Worldwide
A roundup of UC Davis research on such subjects as “Predicting the Next Pandemic,” “Healing Animals With Fish Skins,” “Guardians of the Genome” and “Minibrains Move a Step Closer to Helping Patients,” including videos and quick facts. [ More… ]
Balancing act: Books, maps, study seats and physics
The UC Davis Library this week makes a loan of a different kind — providing floors 2 and 3 of the Physical Sciences and Engineering Library for conversion into office and collaboration space for the UC Davis Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics, or QMAP — but not before ensuring all the materials from those floors are available elsewhere and offsetting the loss of student study seats. [ More… ]
NEWS BRIEFS: Thursday drill at Mondavi Center
A three-part series of active-shooter training exercises this month at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts will conclude this Thursday (Sept. 20). Plus …
- New round of anti-bullying training
- ‘Gatekeepers’ on the mental health front
- Tobacco-waste focus groups
- MU courtyard hardscape nears completion
THE DOWNLOAD: Bear released, football improves
The bear burned in the Carr Fire and treated with tilapia skin by UC Davis veterinarian Jamie Peyton is released back into the wild. … UC Davis football impresses in a loss to Stanford and moves up in the rankings. [ More, with video… ]
FEATURED COLLOQUIA
- UC Davis Health Symposium on Valley Fever — Free and open to the public. Hosted by the UC Davis Center for Valley Fever and the School of Medicine. (Sept. 20)
- “‘Fake News’ and Media Literacy in the Digital Age” — State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, hosts this panel discussion on campus, addressing challenges and opportunities in media literacy education. Dodd’s Senate Bill 830, signed into law by Gov. Brown on Sept. 17, requires the state Department of Education to provide online resources for use by school districts in preparing young adults with skills to, as Dodd puts it, “distinguish fact from fiction” in social media and other forms of media. (Sept. 24)
- Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows Welcome — Our 12 fellows from 12 countries will formally introduce themselves to the campus and community, share their unique backgrounds, and explain how they plan to spend their time at UC Davis to help their future work in the fields of natural resources, agriculture and environmental science. (Sept. 28)
- International Conference of Food Science and Technology — Hosted by UC Davis, which joined with Jiangnan University of China in establishing the conference in 1991. The universities have organized and hosted 12 conferences since then. (Oct. 2-3)
- Imagining America National Gathering — “Transformative Imaginations: Decarceration and Liberatory Futures,” registration is open. (Oct. 19-21 in Chicago)
- International Oak Society Conference — This triennial conference comes to Northern California for the first time, hosted by the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden. (Oct. 21-24)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Town halls to aid in search for vice chancellor of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion — The recruitment advisory committee will hold three town halls Sept. 27 — two on the Davis campus (morning and afternoon) and one on the Sacramento campus (midday) — to gather opinions from members of the campus community about the qualities we should be looking for in candidates and our expectations of the recruitment.
- Traffic controls for path and road work — Southbound La Rue Road will be closed between Hutchison and Garrod drives through Nov. 2; both directions of vehicular traffic will share the northbound lanes, and bicycles and pedestrians will be directed to a bike path. Meanwhile, a short section of Garrod Drive will be reduced to one lane through Sept. 21.
EVENTS
FALL EXHIBITIONS: Nauman, Japanese textiles, dog art and much more
An installation and other works by one of UC Davis’ most illustrious art alumni, Bruce Nauman, are among a stellar array of fall exhibitions on campus. [ More… ]
Editor’s Picks from the online calendar:
- Move-In Weekend
Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 22-23: Look who’s giving a helping hand. - Insect Triple-Header: Saturday, Sept. 22
10-11:30 a.m. — Arboretum Insect Talk and Tour
11 a.m.-2 p.m. — Honey Bee Haven Research Day and Open House
1-4 p.m. — Crafty Insects at the Bohart Museum of Entomology - Football vs. Idaho
Saturday, Sept. 22: New students will take the field in the annual Running of the First Years! It’s also Educator Appreciation Day at Aggie Stadium. - Mid-Autumn Festival
Sunday, Sept. 23: Music, dance, drink and food — including traditional moon cakes — presented by the Confucius Institute, part of Global Affairs. Free.