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August 30, 2022
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Grand Challenges Update: Initial Focus Areas Chosen
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After a year of engagement with campus stakeholders, UC Davis' Grand Challenges initiative has identified its initial focus areas and is moving ahead quickly, facilitating transdisciplinary research collaboration and assisting in large-scale proposal development. The university has already received $1 million in federal funding for the Institute for Pandemic Intelligence.
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Our Newest Top Ranking Reflects the Good We Do
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Washington Monthly puts us in the No. 2 position among public universities in the United States and 11th among all national universities, based on criteria that include doing good and fostering social mobility. Elsewhere in the rankings, UC Davis is 16th among the Best Bang for the Buck Western Colleges and on the list for the Best Colleges for Student Voting.
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9/11 Memorial Stair Climb
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Our Police Department invites the community to UC Davis Health Stadium the morning of Sunday, Sept. 11, to honor the fallen first responders of the terrorist attacks of 21 years ago and support the 9/11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center in New York City. Register by this Friday (Sept. 2) to ensure you will get a commemorative T-shirt and lunch.
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Commencement in August
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Seeing her son stride onto the graduation stage at the University Credit Union Center was worth a second trip from Atlanta and the wait of a few extra weeks. “I wanted to hear his name called, to see him walk across the stage,” Donna Pearson said. And so she did, in the first of three makeup ceremonies for students who missed out when excessive heat cut the June ceremonies short.
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STORY AND PHOTOS
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Announcements
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Fire and police field training — Continues this Wednesday and Thursday (Aug. 31 and Sept. 1), in and around Haring Hall.
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Fall Welcome Calendar — Be sure your events are included! If you get them entered by Sept. 6, you will get the biggest advantage from the promotional push to students. See the instructions for calendar entries from Student Affairs units and non-Student Affairs units.
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Call for volunteers for Aggie Orientation — Staff, faculty, students and community members are invited to be on hand to greet new students from Sept. 15 to 19. Shifts are generally no more than two to three hours long. Add your name to the sign-up sheet.
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Help alleviate a critical shortage of blood — Two-day drive concludes Wednesday (Aug. 31), 10 a.m.-3 p.m., in bloodmobiles on the Quad, with appointments still available at the time Dateline was published. Vitalant will present a special thank-you to every donor: a $6 gift card and a chance to win one of five $3,000 gift cards. See complete announcement for the appointment link and more information.
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AggieSurplus — Open for in-person shopping, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Sept. 1 and 2. Online sales only the rest of the month.
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Dateline publication schedule through summer — Dateline is on an abbreviated schedule lasting into September. See the announcement for publication dates.
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Labor Day — University holiday: Monday (Sept. 5).
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more announcements…
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Upcoming Events
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We open the season against our city cousins the Golden Bears, this Saturday (Sept. 3), in Berkeley, kickoff 1 p.m. The Cal Aggie Alumni Association is sponsoring a tailgate from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. — but take note: Tailgate ticket sales will end at 5 p.m. today (Aug. 30). The UC Davis Ticket Office is selling game tickets in the Aggies section of the stadium.
Come out to see field hockey, women’s and men’s soccer, volleyball and men’s water polo, Sept. 2-16, and the first home football game, 7 p.m. kickoff Sept. 17.
The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, through Dec. 19, Manetti Shrem Museum, open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday, Thursday and Friday, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Free admission.
All ages and skill levels are welcome to Art Spark, a free program every weekend this summer and beyond in the Carol and Gerry Parker Art Studio at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. Experiment with all sorts of techniques and media. Noon-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday through Dec. 18.
Academic and Staff Assistance Program
Nutrition workshop presented by Miguel Saavedra, a future registered dietitian and a former athlete. Sponsored by the Staff and Faculty Health and Well-Being Program. (Sept. 6, remote)
Active Aggies, Tai Chi, Live Kindness Meditation, Live Mindful Pause, Live Mindfulness Meditation and more.
Pink Martini with China Forbes, Tig Notaro and Los Lobos with Gaby Moreno! Presale for Mondavi Center members and subscribers, 10 a.m. Sept. 7; and for faculty, staff and students, 10 a.m. Sept. 8. Staff and faculty: You save 10% on individual events, 25% on three of your choosing. Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Sept. 9.
A one-man play about the physicist’s struggle to prove his theory of general relativity. Presented by UC Observatories and hosted on the Davis campus by the departments of Physics and Astronomy, and Theatre and Dance. (Sept. 16, in person, $20 students, $50 adults)
Join Staff Assembly for the first in a series of tours around the campus. (Noon-1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20)
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The Download
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The latest installment in a video series about places on campus explores UC Davis’ brewery. ... Looking back on Chancellor Gary S. May’s first five years leading the university (video). ... Meet the dog on the women’s soccer team staff. ... Wyatt Deck reopens.
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More from Strategic Communications
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About Dateline
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Dateline UC Davis is a weekly electronic newsletter published by the Office of Strategic Communications. For questions or comments, write to dateline@ucdavis.edu.
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Dateline • News for faculty and staff of UC Davis • One Shields Avenue • Davis, CA 95616
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Managers and supervisors:
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