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November 9, 2021
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Crude Awakenings
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Danene Birtell of the UC Davis-managed Oiled Wildlife Care Network feels some pressure as she prepares to wash a western snowy plover, a bird whose life was already threatened before crude oil ever ruffled its feathers last month off the Orange County coast. The bird is one of 36 live animals rescued from the spill.
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A Final Season for Pint
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He’s been with the UC Davis football team longer than any player or coach, and this season will be his last. Pint, the Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever who, well, retrieves the kickoff tee at home football games, is hanging up his No. K9 jersey after more than 40 games with the Aggies. He’s slowing down and had a health scare earlier this year.
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Best in Class in Voting Rate
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The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, a national, nonpartisan initiative, has declared UC Davis’ student voting rate in the 2020 general election the most improved among the rates for other participating four-year public colleges and universities — up more than 32 percentage points from the 2016 general election.
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Gift Cards for Daily Survey
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Aggie Public Health Ambassadors will be handing out gift cards to students who have completed the Daily Symptom Survey, in a program proposed by student leaders and endorsed by Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Croughan, an epidemiologist, who has provided funding through the end of the academic year.
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Upcoming Events
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Unapologetic (pictured), 200 Meters, Us Kids, A Once and Future Peace, and Missing in Brooks County, available online, Nov. 10-23 (festival pass $20), presented by UC Davis Human Rights Studies and the UC Davis Humanities Institute. Online question-and-answer sessions, one for each film, Nov. 15-19, co-sponsored by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art and the Campus Community Book Project.
This music-and-dance performance at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts is co-sponsored by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, which suggests the show at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 21, as a complement to the DEI Open House two days e. Well-Being Ticket Deal: Staff and faculty tickets $10 (maximum two per person) when purchased by Nov. 15.
Fall exhibition season closes this Friday (Nov. 12).
Academic and Staff Assistance Program
Suggest a topic when you register. Presented by the Staff and Faculty Health and Well-Being Program. (Nov. 10, remote)
Honoring Walter A. Robinson, the late associate vice chancellor of Enrollment Management. (Nov. 10, remote)
This eight-week email campaign was previously known as the Healthy Holiday Challenge. (Nov. 12-Jan. 7)
Concerts: Berlin PianoPercussion
Presented by the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science: Hear from the people behind olive oil from our Olive Center, coffee from our Coffee Center, meat from our Meat Lab, and honey from our Honey and Pollination Center. You might also come away with some holiday gift ideas. (Nov. 17, remote)
This week’s meeting has been rescheduled for Nov. 19 (remote). Then, one more meeting in fall quarter, Nov. 30, also remote.
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The Download
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Go inside the UC Davis Coffee Center and learn what makes it unique. ... UC Davis Health has moved a large piece of medical technology into Sacramento's new SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity, just in time for its opening. ... What’s really in household dust? ... Fire Chief Nate Trauernicht gets to feel like a member of the football team.
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