11.20.2009

	About 50 protesters were arrested for trespassing (Julia Ann Easley/UC Davis photo)

REMAKING UC: Regental commission to gather campus feedback
UC Commission on the Future working group representatives will visit the Davis campus from 1 to 4 p.m. on Nov. 30 in AGR Hall of the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center to hear from UC Davis ... [ More ]

UC Davis files $100M lawsuit against Sacramento County on indigent care
The UC Davis Medical Center is suing Sacramento County and responsible public officials for their failure to process and pay more than $100 million in claims for medical care. The lawsuit involves ... [ More ]

	(Cheng Saechao/UC Davis)

Transfer students up by 15.9 percent
UC Davis this fall enrolled its largest number of transfer students even as UC budget constraints reduced the size of the freshman class. New students who transferred from a community college or ... [ More ]

Global Health Institute launched
The UC on Nov. 9 launched a new Global Health Institute with nearly $4 million in start-up funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The institute will focus the combined expertise of ... [ More ]

Head librarian’s legacy in expansion, collections
Overseeing the remodeling and expansion of the Peter J. Shields Library is one of the reasons Marilyn Sharrow came to work as the university librarian in 1985. She completed that project and many ... [ More ]

	Tribal Elder Bill Wright (Cheng Saechao/UC Davis)

Pension contribution plan found lacking
Even with an assumed rate of return of 7.5 percent on the UC Retirement Plan’s investments … Even with the April 15 restart of contributions as planned (the first contributions in ... [ More ]

AT A GLANCE: Task force representatives, retirement plan numbers
UC DAVIS REPRESENTATIVES UC Davis representatives hold seven of 27 seats on the UC President’s Task Force on Post-Employment Benefits. Pension Benefits Work Team: Lin King, director, ... [ More ]

BANG THE DRUM FOR UC
In an e-mail message this week, Chancellor Linda Katehi urged students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends to join UC’s systemwide push for more state funding. “It is vital that our UC ... [ More ]

	Karen Grinyer models the old-style uniform. (Michael Benson/UC Davis)

LAURELS
This column offers a sampling of honors recently awarded to UC Davis faculty, staff and units: Kenneth Brown and Sonja Hess, both of the Department of Nutrition, and Stephen Vosti of the ... [ More ]

IN BRIEF
Repro Graphics advises: The earlier the better Repro Graphics Director Brian Wadell is advising faculty that, despite the Dec. 24-Jan. 3 campus closure, his unit “will be able to produce all ... [ More ]

IN MEMORIAM: Marc Blanchard
Marc Blanchard, distinguished professor of comparative literature at UC Davis, died on Nov. 8 after a long struggle against cancer. He was 67. A professor at UC Davis for 39 years, Blanchard was a ... [ More ]

CAMPUS COMMUNITY BOOK PROJECT: Eric Weiner brings his bliss to UC Davis
When Eric Weiner comes to campus next month, a lot of people will be thinking about his search for the happiest places in the world. We have been reading about it in his book, The Geography of ... [ More ]

Celebration planned as writing publications hit the 20-year mark
The University Writing Program is organizing a celebration of the 20th year of publication of Writing on the Edge, the program’s nationally known composition journal, and Prized Writing, the ... [ More ]

FEAST OF POETRY
Taking poetry outdoors offers all sorts of possibilities — and distractions. It could rain or a jackhammer might be jabbering nearby, the latter not unlikely on a sprouting campus like UC ... [ More ]

	CORPO/ILICITO: Avila Reese (first-year candidate, Master of Fine Arts, acting) (Kristine Slipson/UC Davis)

CLIMATE CLUES: Moaning Cavern’s stalagmites store thousands of years of rain data — showing a link between California droughts and Arctic thaws
Centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years in California coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to a new study by UC Davis doctoral student Jessica Oster and geology ... [ More ]

IN RESEARCH: Skunk’s strategy stretches beyond black and white
Predators that have experience with skunks avoid them both because of their black-and-white coloration and their distinctive body shape, according to UC Davis wildlife researcher Jennifer Hunter. The study was published online Oct. 21 in the journal Behavioral Ecology. ... [ More ]

$1M gift to benefit grapevine growers
A $1 million gift from Trinchero Family Estates, a family-owned wine company in the Napa Valley, will help UC Davis build new facilities for a program that provides disease-free rootstock to ... [ More ]

	Clark Kerr lecturer Hanna Holborn Gray

Sshhh, Nelson and Craft Center auctions continue
The Nelson ARTfriends Fall Online Silent Auction offers everal pieces of fine art by Hung Liu and Don Ed Hardy and others, and a wide variety of posters, some featuring the works of Robert Arneson, ... [ More ]

EXHIBITIONS
African American Quilts — Quilts made by former slaves, plus 21st-century creations informed by time-honored veins of African American quilting. From the collections of Avis C. Robinson of ... [ More ]

	Benny McCarthy plays the button accordian with Danú -- and can share a tale or two about Irish pub life.

University Chorus and Bach Soloists also set to perform
Cantus commemorates the Christmas truce of 1914. Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem (“Grant us peace” in Latin) is not strictly a holiday work, but it fits in well with the ... [ More ]

MORE AT THE MONDAVI
Pianist Emanuel Ax performs in the Concert Series at 8 p.m. Dec. 5, in Jackson Hall. Ax received Grammy awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn’s piano sonatas and joined ... [ More ]

THE OUTDOORS: At the Raptor Center, arboretum and Stebbins Cold Canyon
AT THE RAPTOR CENTER The California Raptor Center is welcoming the public to an open house, free of charge, on Nov. 21. Activities begin with a Hawk Walk at 8 a.m. (meet at the gate to the raptor ... [ More ]

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