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Fall Welcome: Be a hero

Capes 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… ]

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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 …

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… ]

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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… ]

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