2.13.2009

	Economics professor A. Colin Cameron, left, and Chuck McGinn, an associate architect with Facilities Management, review proposals for bikeway and transit network improvements. (Bob Grandy/Fehr & Peers Transportation Consultants)

$5M in midyear budget cuts ordered
Anticipating more bad budget news from the state, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Enrique Lavernia is ordering a midyear cut of $5 million. He is doing so despite the governor and ... [ More ]

Budget committee membership announced
BUDGET ADVISORY COMMITTEE • Enrique Lavernia, provost and executive vice chancellor (chair) • John Meyer, vice chancellor, Offfice of Resource Management and Planning This committee ... [ More ]

Employees to pay into retirement plan
Employer and employee contributions to the UC Retirement Plan will resume next year, under a plan approved by the Board of Regents on Feb. 5. The restart will end a contribution & ... [ More ]

AROUND THE UC: Pitts: UC’s interim provost
Lawrence H. Pitts was recently named interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs of the UC system. Pitts fills the vacancy in the position resulting from the departure of ... [ More ]

	Charles Darwin in 1880.

OPEN FORUM: Scholars: Israel ‘falsely accused’ of targeting civilians
UC Davis faculty members Moshe Rosenberg and David Siegel are among the 2,300-plus signatories to the following Jan. 28 statement by the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East: Israel has been ... [ More ]

	(Sam Selllers/UC Davis)

	More than 100 people from campus, other UCs, government agencies and private companies turned out for the Feb. 3 opening of the Contained Research Facility. (Courtesy)

IN BRIEF: Error on W-2s; Community awards; Repro Graphics celebrates; Fire training postponed; Picnic Day applications; Advisory committees
Minor error on W-2s Accounting and Financial Services notified employees last week of a negligible print error on paper W-2 forms. In Box 15, the abbreviation for California reads “A” ... [ More ]

	Lloyd

Nanomagnetic ‘fingerprints’ give boost to media storage
In the race to develop the next generation of storage and recording media, a major hurdle has been the difficulty of studying the tiny magnetic structures that will serve as their building blocks. ... [ More ]

	Forbes

Teaching symposium: The wisdom of success, failure
The symposium, Two Successes and a Failure –-- A More Thoughtful Teaching Symposium, will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Feb. 23 at the University Club. Lunch is included. Andy Jones, ... [ More ]

SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA: Universities, communities working together
How can universities and communities come together to make a difference in the world? This is the next topic for UC Davis’ Public Intellectuals Forum, free and open to the public and held in ... [ More ]

THE WINTER'S TALE: SHAKESPEARE FLIPPED!
“This is Shakespeare flipped!” “This” is Patricia Miller’s interpretation of The Winter’s Tale, a Department of Theatre and Dance production opening Feb. 13 and ... [ More ]

THE ARTS: Strangers on a Train; Hedwig's Mitchell to visit
Strangers on a Train Hitchcock — The Wrong Man Theme, the winter quarter Focus on Film at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, wraps up Feb. 23 with Strangers on a Train. Alfred ... [ More ]

	Professor emeritus Louis Grivetti: co-editor of a new book on the history of chocolate.

Take a stroll, hear Shakespeare's sonnets on Valentine's Day
UC Davis is offering up a special Valentine: the Valentine’s Day Sonnet Walk, with some of Shakespeare’s poetry to be performed along the way. The public is invited to come along, free ... [ More ]

	Glass

UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE MONDAVI CENTER
Goldberg Variations With British newspapers hailing her as “the pre-eminent Bach pianist of our time” and her Bach recordings as “glories of our age,” Angela Hewitt is a ... [ More ]

	Beah

Expert drives car, climate solutions on a global scale
Our passion for driving what we want, where and when we want, has driven us to the cliff’s edge: Now we must sharply reduce our use of oil-based auto fuels, or face disastrous climate ... [ More ]

UC Davis leading research consortium on pharmaceuticals
Scientists know there are drugs that have been developed, tested and found lacking for one disease that might help patients with a completely different condition. But the trick for researchers has ... [ More ]

EXHIBITIONS: Reception set for artist whose One Tract Mind looks at suburbia's effect on native communities
The C.N. Gorman Museum is hosting a reception next week for Gerald Clarke Jr., whose work is on display this quarter in an exhibition titled One Tract Mind, examining tract housing’s effect on ... [ More ]

THE OUTDOORS (AND INDOORS): At the arboretum
FLUTE-MAKING WORKSHOP The UC Davis Arboretum is inviting the public to learn about Native Californian elderberry flute-making, in a free workshop led by docent Antonio Flores of the East Bay ... [ More ]

	Click open this story for all the Amgen Tour logistics: I-80 ramp closures, campus parking, Unitrans shuttles, downtown festivities and more.

FEB. 13 SYMPOSIUM: THE SCIENCE OF CYCLING
Like most faculty members, Travis Lybbert regularly attends and presents seminars. In his case, these often involve the economics of poverty and development in Africa or India. But the assistant ... [ More ]

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