COVID-19: Campus Roundup

Testing operations at the Genome Center, coordinated with Healthy Davis Together, identify the first local instance of a COVID-19 variant. ... The campus vaccine clinic is due to expand eligibility Wednesday (Feb. 10) to employees of any age with occupational risk. ... UCOP posts interim vaccination policy.

Choose 4 Principled Words

After the events of 2020, the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is inviting the campus community to take a one-question survey to reaffirm that the Principles of Community, first signed in 1990, still reflect our values. The survey closes Feb. 19, and then Principles of Community Week starts.

New Chancellor’s Fellows

A dozen early-career faculty members have a new title that comes with $25,000 in philanthropic support to further their research or other scholarly work. They come from law, chemistry, psychology, cinema and digital media and elsewhere on campus, and will retain their new titles for five years.

A Name for Design Center

Diane Bryant, who majored in electrical and computer engineering at UC Davis before going on to become a top executive at Intel and CEO of a medical start-up, has given the largest single gift in the history of the College of Engineering to name its new Engineering Student Design Center.