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Season 1 podcast theme: How to feed the worldThe Office of Strategic Communications today (Sept. 17) launches the UC Davis podcast Unfold — “unfolding” complex issues and discussing solutions with UC Davis experts. Season 1 addresses “Feeding a Growing Population” and starts with an episode titled, “What’s the Beef With Beef?” [ More… ] |
NEWS SUMMARY
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Hexter to step down at end of academic year
The provost and executive vice chancellor — who also served as acting and then interim chancellor for 15 months in 2016-17 — announces he will step down from campus leadership at the end of the 2019-20 academic year to refocus his energies on his teaching and research in the classics and comparative literature. [ More… ]
All can be heroes at Fall Welcome
Chancellor Gary S. May invites new and returning students, faculty, staff and community members to Fall Welcome, followed by dinner for all, this coming Monday (Sept. 23). Students will need their UC Davis IDs for admission, while others — including faculty and staff — must have tickets (they’re free, and our story tells how to get them). [ More… ]
- Also happening Sept. 23: RecFest at the ARC and Rec Pool
- Move-In Weekend (Sept. 21-22) includes Yosemite Hall’s debut
- Join resident advisors for a tour of the 400-bed residence hall
Aggie Square: We’ve asked 4 developers for proposals
UC Davis issues request for proposals to finance, design, build, own and manage the first phase of the innovation hub planned for the Sacramento campus. The university also confirms some of the programs it would bring to Aggie Square in Phase 1. [ More… ]
Grant funding for 2018-19 totals $845 million
“The establishment of UC Davis as a top research university is demonstrated by its continued success in attracting a high level of external funding,” Vice Chancellor for Research Prasant Mohapatra says. [ More… ]
Student health center a leader in LGBTQ equality
Student Health and Counseling Services is one of only three student health centers in the nation to be designated an LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader for 2019. [ More… ]
Seismic safety: See progress all over campus
Vice Chancellor Kelly Ratliff of Facilities, Operations and Administration provides an update on seismic safety improvement efforts, including eight projects now underway at a cost of more than $250 million to date. [ More… ]
UCPath: Pay cards among your payroll options
With our first paychecks coming from UCPath — Oct. 1 for employees who are paid monthly, and Oct. 2 for employees who are paid biweekly — now’s a good time to review how you will receive your pay: direct deposit (same as before), by U.S. Mail, or on a new UC Pay Card. [ More… ]
NEWS BRIEFS: ‘Strong gains’ reported in UC investments
UC officials are reporting “strong gains” in the university’s investment portfolio for the fiscal year that ended June 30 — with assets under management growing to $126.1 billion, a one-year jump of $7.4 billion (and a five-year gain of $30 billion). Plus …
- Retirement chief issues message on delays
- Napolitano comments on bond proposal
- Pop-up workshop on Davis Depot’s future
- Assisting Cal Fire: Campus crews out and back
THE DOWNLOAD: GSM team in Chile, tortoise bladder stones
Graduate School of Management students explore ways to increase UC Davis’ visibility in Latin America. … A student spends her summer collecting food for the needy. … A 61-year-old tortoise is treated at UC Davis for bladder stones. [ More, with video… ]
FEATURED COLLOQUIA
Pulitzer Prize-winner to give First Amendment lecture
The School of Law hosts Harvard historian Annette Gordon-Reed for this year’s Central Valley Foundation/James B. McClatchy Lecture, Wednesday (Sept. 18). Her topic: “Monuments, Shields and Statues: What, and Who, Belongs in the Public Sphere?” [ More… ]
MORE FEATURED COLLOQUIA
- McClellan Nuclear Research Center Open House — Learn about research, education and training opportunities at this Sacramento facility. Transportation provided. (Sept. 18)
- Food, Agriculture and Energy Employer Showcase — Graduate students are invited to network with employers. Sponsored by the Graduate School of Management, and Energy and Efficiency Institute. (Sept. 24)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- UC Women’s Initiative for Professional Development — Call for nominations for the 2020 program designed for midcareer, female staff and faculty who demonstrate the potential to advance their careers at UC. Administered by Systemwide Talent Management and sponsored by the Office of the President and the Systemwide Advisory Committee on the Status of Women. Deadline: Oct. 4.
- Traffic controls and path closure in the vicinity of Briggs Hall — Kleiber Hall Drive on the west side of Briggs, and the pedestrian and bike path on the east side of Briggs (between Storer Mall and Kleiber Hall Drive), for Briggs roof and electrical renovation, through Sept. 27.
- Traffic controls at Old Davis Road and Interstate 80 — Lane reductions, detours and added stop signs for underground electrical work, through Oct. 18.
- Traffic controls on Hutchison Drive — Adjacent to Surge 4 and the Silo, in the campus core, for underground utility work, through Oct. 28.
- Bus stop closure in Visitor Parking Lot 56 (Health Sciences District) — The closure has been extended through Dec. 15, for continued work on a steam vault project. As a result, the intercampus shuttle and YoloBus are dropping off and picking up passengers at sheltered bus stops (one eastbound, one westbound) on Hutchison Drive at Health Sciences Drive.
EVENTS
FALL PERSPECTIVES: From inside out to all around and into the future
Campus museum exhibitions will feature fashion from the inside out; an installation that puts the viewer in the middle of a poetic and visual narrative about humanity’s history and future; and a mix of graphics, comics, science fiction and game play, for engagement and thought about Indigenous futures and possibilities. [ More… ]
- Catch up with the Slant Step, a celebrated part of the UC Davis art story.
- New in the lobby of Shields Library: A Tale of Two Tastings — Including the 1976 Judgment of Paris that put California wines on the global map.
Editor’s Picks from the online calendar:
- HEALTHY UC DAVIS
Well-Being Ticket Deal: $10 staff-faculty tickets for Trey McLaughlin & the Sounds of Zamar, Sept. 29 (tickets available until the day before).
Nature Rx: Connect with nature via mini-succulent gardens, terrariums, fall harvest and Watercolors in the Arboretum — sign up by 5 p.m. Friday (Sept. 20) to be entered in lottery for limited spaces in these October programs. - An Evening With Vet Med: “Why Do Horses Need Regular Dental Care?”
Tuesday, Sept. 17: With Nicola Pusterla and Colleen Heney of the UC Davis Equine Dentistry and Oral Surgery Service. Free. - Entomophagy Theme at Bohart Open House
Saturday, Sept. 21: Think “Gobble, Gobble, Munch, Munch, Crunch” at entomology museum. - Ground and Field Theatre Festival
Fat Kid Rules the World: Sept. 26-Oct. 5. Free.
Ranked, a New Musical: Sept. 26-28. Free. - Feminist Research Institute Open House
Tuesday, Oct. 1: Learn about programming in the new academic year and celebrate the institute’s new home.