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May 16, 2023
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NURSE WILL LIVE ON ‘MARS’ FOR A YEAR
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New Faculty Athletics Rep
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Chancellor Gary S. May has appointed history professor Gregory Downs as faculty athletics representative, a position required by the NCAA to oversee issues related to student-athlete welfare and to protect the academic integrity of the institution as it pertains to intercollegiate athletics. He succeeds economics professor Scott Carrell, who served for a decade.
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Honoring Gold Star Aggies
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Aggies Edward Bitterman and Donald John McDougall came to UC Davis in the same class, enrolling in 1941, before leaving to join the war effort. Both would parachute into Normandy on D-Day, and neither would return home. They’ll be among the 136 Gold Star Aggies honored next week (Thursday, May 25) in the campus’s annual Memorial Day Ceremony at the Memorial Union.
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Roth on ‘Recovered Voices’
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Don Roth, executive director of the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, discusses the “Recovered Voices” project, about music and other art banned and destroyed by the Nazi regime, the subject of two concerts and a symposium in April. He also looks back on his 17-season tenure at the Mondavi Center as he prepares to retire Aug. 31.
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LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
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Save as Mondavi Subscriber
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The Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts on Monday (May 22) will open 2023-24 subscription sales to the general public, including staff, faculty and retirees, who will continue to receive a 25% off subscriptions of three or more shows. See what’s in store in the new season, including the Disney-Pixar classic Coco, with live music.
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Announcements
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Safety Month — Week 3: Trainings for outdoors work continue Wednesday and Thursday (wildfire smoke, May 17; and field work planning and preparation, May 18). Week 4: New Employee Injury and Illness Reporting Tool (one-hour training sessions, May 23, 24 and 25, remote).
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Police Accountability Board spring public meeting — Quarterly meeting, 4-5 p.m. Wednesday, May 17, remote. Representatives of the UC Davis Police Department will attend the first half of the meeting to answer questions about recent events or other issues of community interest and concern.
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UC Davis Group Mentoring Program — Call for applications from employees of UC Davis and UC Davis Health, to be mentors or mentees in this six-month-long remote program of large and small group meetings. Deadline: May 19.
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Asia Pacific Women in Leadership Mentoring Program — The Association of Pacific Rim Universities is calling for nominations or self-nominations of faculty members to be mentors or mentees in this yearlong program aimed at expanding the pipeline of aspiring APRU female leaders. Deadline: June 4.
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Executive recruitment: Dean-School of Education — A virtual forum with Candidate C will be held at 2:30 p.m. today (May 16) to hear the candidate’s qualifications and vision for the school. Recordings of all three candidate forums will be posted after the conclusion of today’s forum.
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UC Davis Benefits Help Desks — With analysts available to answer questions, and, if requested, meet individually with employees in a breakout room. 10-11 a.m. weekly on Wednesdays, on Zoom.
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UC Davis Retirement Help Desks — Are you contemplating retirement within the next four to 12 months? If so, you can get your retirement questions answered locally, during drop-in Zoom sessions scheduled on various days at various times through June 28.
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UC Retirement System Advisory Board election — May 22-June 16. All active UC Retirement Plan members and Savings Choice participants (with the exception of Academic Senate members) are eligible to vote for two new representatives from among six candidates. Read their candidate statements (in English or Spanish) and learn how the election will be conducted.
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Upcoming Events
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Light breakfast will be served at 8 and the program will begin at 8:30 a.m. Monday (May 22) for the presentation of 2022 and 2023 Diversity and Principles of Community Achievement Awards. Plus, a prize drawing and networking. (Please RSVP by May 18)
Explore UC Davis’ role in the rise of organic farming, farm-to-table cooking and sustainable agriculture. Shields Library, through the summer.
The Curtis Institute of Music Performance Innovation Lab presents the Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov symphony in 360-degree video and sound in the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre. Multiple, hourlong presentations, today through Thursday (May 16-18), free, no advance tickets required.
Watch our livestock tend to the grass in front of Wickson Hall, a soothing view for you, a research project for a faculty member. (May 17-19)
At the UC Davis Farmers Market, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. every Wednesday through May 31 in front of the Student Community Center.
Discussion and support: Coping With Grief, Loss and Change, May 17 and 31; Parenting Group, May 17; and Cultivating Hope and Optimism, May 24. All remote.
Two artists in residence for the spring quarter will present public programs, free and in person, as follows:
- Shimon Attie, installation artist — Artist talk, May 18
- Lynn Hershman Leeson, UC Davis professor emerita, multidisciplinary artist — Film presentations, May 23 and 24, and artist talk, May 25
Two nights of short films from around the world that “provide insight into solidarity, survival, resistance and motherhood.” Sponsored by the Women’s Resources and Research Center. (May 18-19, in person)
Graduate students and undergraduate students will perform in the spring edition of this quarterly program by the Department of Theatre and Dance. (May 18-20, in person)
It’s all you can eat at the 18th annual Student Resident Firefighters Pancake Breakfast. Proceeds will go to the Firefighters Burn Institute. (8 a.m.-noon Saturday, May 20)
The Staff and Faculty Health and Well-Being Program encourages people to be physically active for at least 30 minutes a day, and has organized UC Davis Moves Week, May 22-26, to help get you going! Sign up for daily, inspirational emails; play campus bingo; and participate in Walk or Roll (in person, May 24).
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The Download
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UC Davis researchers are taking a different approach to assessing earthquake risk. ... Aggies are headed to the National Invitational Softball Championship. ... Uniquely UCD showcases “Wild Davis.” ... The med center’s peregrine falcon chicks get out-of-this-world names.
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