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March 29, 2022
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Drab to Fab: New Buildings and Updated Classrooms
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Senate, Federation Awards
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The Academic Senate and the Academic Federation announced their annual awards given to members for exceptional research, teaching and mentoring, and public service. Highest honors go to Distinguished Professor Pam Ronald (senate) and Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist Thomas Harter (federation).
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Support What You Love
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UC Davis is asking its employees to support the university programs that are important to them, many of which support Aggies in need. During Employee Giving Month, which begins Friday (April 1), the spotlight is on programs like Aggie House, a student-run transitional housing shelter, the Staff Emergency Fund and more.
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Women’s History in U.S. Parks
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In national parks in the West, you have to look hard for stories or monuments or even trail signs recognizing the considerable role that women have played in shaping the landscape and its uses. Now two professors and four graduate students have added dozens of women’s biographies and more to the park system’s historical narrative.
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A Fresh ‘Face’ in Westerns
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Ph.D. student Tom Lin wrote his first novel, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, while he waited for the start of his first quarter at UC Davis. But that’s not the only unique thing about his book. In a rarity in the Western genre, his protagonist is Chinese American. Lin joins Chancellor Gary S. May to discuss the book on this month’s Face to Face.
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STORY AND VIDEO
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Announcements
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THIS YEAR: Staff Experience Survey — You should have received your email invitation Monday (March 28), and, if you have not yet taken the survey, please do so! It should take no more than five minutes, and for every response submitted by April 11, Human Resources will donate $2 to the Staff Emergency Fund.
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LAST YEAR: Academic and Staff Satisfaction Survey — Results “fuel” improvements to campus services.
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Executive recruitment: Vice chancellor-Finance, Operations and Administration — Public forums with the candidates are being held in person. Two forums have been scheduled so far: Candidate A, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Friday, April 1, Ballroom A (note that this is a different ballroom than the one announced initially), Activities and Recreation Center (ARC); and Candidate B, 2-3:15 p.m. Monday (April 4), AGR Hall, Buehler Alumni Center.
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Staff advisor to the Board of Regents — Applications are being accepted for a two-year term, July 2022 to June 2024, the first year as staff advisor-designate, the second year as staff advisor. Deadline: April 8.
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First-Year Aggie Connections — Faculty, staff and graduate students are invited to serve as facilitators for groups of 25 or so new freshman and transfer students during fall quarter. Each of these “connections” has a theme developed by the facilitator. Information session April 5 and proposal co-working session April 8 (both remote). Proposal deadline: April 22.
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Hutchison Drive-Highway 113 improvement project Phase 3 — No access from Hutchison to northbound Highway 113, continuing into May. The campus advises this detour: Take La Rue Road to Old Davis Road, turn right and take the ramp to northbound 113.
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Parking Lot 5A — The north portion of this lot on Old Davis Road is closed through May 10 for utility work.
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Professional development — Two new series: Skills for the New World of Work (starts April 5) and Becoming an Inclusive Leader (starts April 6).
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more announcements…
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Featured Colloquia
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School of Law Presents “Epochal Change: Challenges to Democracy,” by Ricardo Lagos, Former President of Chile (March 31, remote)
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Winston Ko Lecture: “The Origin of the Earth and Moon,” by Professor Sarah Stewart (March 31, in person)
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Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn’s Journey: “From Looking Down a Microscope to Looking Out the Window” (April 4, free, in person and remote)
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School of Law Presents a Discussion on Migration and Human Rights, With Michelle Bachelet, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and Former President of Chile (April 5, remote)
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more colloquia…
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Upcoming Events
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Author’s Talk and Free Forum@MC
Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, this year’s Campus Community Book Project, will have a full house in Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts for a conversation with Chancellor Gary S. May, this Thursday night (March 31). You can also hear from Kendi in a free forum (in person and livestreamed) earlier the same day:
The challenge is on! To get outside for your well-being, to share photos and win prizes. Consider the following activities:
- “Guardians: Spirits of Protection” — M.F.A. students in design have installed a poetry path, a reflection bridge and a dakhil in the Arboretum, through April 24.
- UC Davis Sheepmowers — Watch them graze on the Chemistry Mounds, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday through Friday (March 30-April 1). Chair Share seating available.
Offered by the Academic and Staff Assistance Program. (March 30, remote)
School of Law Racial Justice Series
Music to Start Your Spring
- Noon Concert — Michael Sand, violin, performing works by Bach and Biber, March 31, free, in person and livestreamed
- Sinfonia Spirituosa — “Ritournelle — The Return” (baroque), April 1, in person and livestreamed (tickets required for in person; the livestream is free)
$10 tickets for staff and faculty, purchased from April 1 to 18 (limit two per person), for a concert by pianist Christopher Taylor, performing Liszt Transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies, 2 p.m. Sunday, April 24, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Use Promo Code BEWELL2122.
Joseph Fletcher and J.R. Yancher present an adaptation of alumna Sandy Lynne Holman’s award-winning children’s book, Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad? (April 1-3 and 9-10, pay what you can at the door)
The author of The Sum of Us will give a talk and participate in a question-and-answer session. (April 3, in person)
The campus semifinal, to determine who will advance to the systemwide final. (April 6, in person and livestreamed).
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The Download
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The peregrine falcons are back at UC Davis Health, and they’re waiting for a new round of eggs to hatch. … Alumnus Joseph Patel wins an Oscar. … A barn gets a community mural. … Law students and a faculty member assist migrants in Tijuana.
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