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Thank you, thank you!Thank Goodness for Staff is Wednesday (May 8), 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Russell Field. And thank you in advance to Staff Assembly for organizing the 39th annual picnic, featuring food trucks (like last year), vendors, recreation and games. Check out the TGFS website for the food truck menu, shuttle stops and information on Thank Goodness for Staff After Dark (8 p.m. to midnight Wednesday). [ More… ] |
NEWS SUMMARY
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Chancellor appoints School of Nursing dean
Stephen J. Cavanagh’s appointment comes one week after Chancellor Gary S. May named Allison Brashear as the new dean of the School of Medicine. Together, Cavanagh and Brashear round out the academic leadership team at UC Davis Health. Both report to David Lubarsky, vice chancellor and CEO, who was appointed a year ago. [ More… ]
Campus advisory: Check immunity to measles
The Davis campus is urging students and employees to check their immunity to measles and consider vaccination after cases led to the recent quarantine of hundreds at UCLA and California State University, Los Angeles. [ More… ]
CHANCELL-ING: Reflecting on mental health
“It’s safe to say we all know someone who’s been affected by mental health issues. … Mental Health Awareness Month offers the chance to be an ally,” Chancellor May writes in his monthly column, while noting that students’ mental health remains one of UC Davis’ top priorities. [ More… ]
Give Day and employee giving on the upswing
Chancellor May and Vice Chancellor Shaun Keister are expressing their appreciation for a great month of philanthropy: Give Day’s $2 million in donations nearly doubled what the university collected in the first Give Day just two years ago; and more than 2,200 staff and faculty members — an increase of 19 percent over 2018 — contributed during Employee Giving Month. [ More… ]
RESEARCH: An evolutionary rescue in polluted waters
How does the minnowlike Gulf killifish survive in toxic waters? Through a combination of a big population, good genes and luck, say scientists from UC Davis and elsewhere, in a study that foretells what other species may need to adapt to drastically changed environments. [ More… ]
IN MEMORIAM: Services set for Cahill, Hess, Kellogg
Tom Cahill, 82, professor emeritus of physics and atmospheric sciences, died April 30 of complications of cancer. A memorial Mass will be held Friday, May 24. … Plus, service information for Charley Hess and Louise Kellogg. [ More… ]
NEWS BRIEFS: Parking rates going up July 1
Transportation Services, or TAPS, announces that it will raise fees $5 a month for most faculty and staff permits effective July 1, the first increases for employee permits since 2017, and enact a new fee of $10 a month to use the campus’s electric vehicle charging stations. Plus …
- Transfer admits to visit Friday
- Last week to respond to library survey
- Cool Campus Challenge results
- Space availability in Davis schools
- Spare the Air: Unitrans sets 15-day limit
- Police Accountability Board meetings
THE DOWNLOAD: Grapes as hearts, student films, UC Walks
Students use grapes and Jell-O to learn how to perform fetal heart surgery. …The Sacramento Bee’s photo of turkeys on campus wins a top California Journalism Award. … UC Walks takes Aggies around the Davis campus and beyond. [ More, with video… ]
FEATURED COLLOQUIA
What do Capts. Kirk and Marvel have in common?
They are featured in two speaker series in May: Chancellor’s Colloquium with Star Trek’s Capt. Kirk, William Shatner, this Saturday (May 11). … And a UC Davis Forum on the Public University and the Social Good with Mills College President Elizabeth L. Hillman addressing “Captain Marvel and 21st-Century Women’s Colleges,” Thursday, May 23. [ More… ]
MORE FEATURED COLLOQUIA
- “Telomeres and Telomerase: From Fundamental Mechanisms to Disease” — Nobel Prize recipient Carol W. Greider, professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (and graduate of Davis High School), gives the David L. Weaver Endowed Lecture, presented by the Genome Center. (May 8)
- “From Dead Heads to Depression Meds: How Psychedelics Are Impacting Modern Medicine” — A conversation with David Olson, assistant professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Davis, in the Davis Science Café. (May 8)
- The End of Snow — Free screening of Morgan Heim’s documentary film, followed by a question-and-answer session with the director. Sponsored by the John Muir Institute of the Environment. (May 9)
- “Multiple Dimensions of (Educational) Inequality Demand Multiple Solutions: What Can and Will We Do?” — The Department of Sociology hosts this talk by Prudence Carter, dean, UC Berkeley School of Education. (May 9)
- “Documenting the Undocumented: Immigrant Voices of Past and Present” — Symposium (May 9) and related exhibition at Shields Library (May 8-Sept. 22).
- “A Winemaker’s Perspective on Genetic Diversity” — Joint lecture by Elisabeth Forrestel, a National Science Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology in the Department of Viticulture and Enology, UC Davis, and Steve Matthiasson, owner, Matthiasson Wines. Preceded by optional tour of UC Davis’ Wolfskill Experimental Orchard. (May 14)
- Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony — Nearly 200 students have been elected to the national honor society and invited to the May 15 ceremony. The campus chapter asks faculty mentors to encourage their students to participate, and all faculty and staff Phi Beta Kappa members are invited to attend.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
There are no announcements this week.
EVENTS
KARMIC HISTORY: The Whole Earth Festival at 50
With this year’s event just days away, UC Davis Magazine takes us from the first year (when art history teacher José Argüelles’ encouraged his students to present a spring renewal), to the present — with recollections of the first Karma Dome, famous guests, Wavy Gravy as the master of ceremonies, and the shift in focus from spiritual to environmental. [ More… ]
Editor’s Picks from the online calendar:
- National Public Gardens Day: Saturday, May 11
Arboretum Plant Sale: Last one of the season — clearance discount on everything.
Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven: Bee and plant experts, plus activities for all ages. - Soccer: Sac Republic FC vs. Reno 1868 FC
Saturday, May 11: Discount tickets for all UC Davis employees. - THEATRE: {LOVE/logic}
Thursday-Saturday, May 16-18 and May 23-25: Focusing on two conference-bound theoretical physicists who are set to debate the parity of the universe. Coincidences arise and romance blooms in this play that combines physical comedy with a critique of contemporary gender and power relationships. Josy Miller ’16 Ph.D. (performance studies), directs an all-undergraduate cast in this new work by Granada artist-in-residence Andrew Nicholls.