2.23.2009

No more business as usual: Chancellor says smaller budgets will force us to do things differently
Editor's note: Legislators came to a budget deal on Feb. 19, a day after Dateline UC Davis went to press with the following article. It reports on Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef's Feb. 12 brown ... [ More ]

	(Kristine Slipson/UC Davis)

King Hall receives $1 million gift for new courtroom
A gift of $1 million from the Kalmanovitz Charitable Foundation will fund construction of a new courtroom in the School of Law’s King Hall. The Paul and Lydia Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom ... [ More ]

	Student Diane Giron demonstrated against child sex trafficking Jan. 29 at the Memorial Union. (Karin Higgins/UC Davis)

Find your bliss in this book project
If you are searching for happiness, where should you start? The answer may be found in the Campus Community Book Project’s selection for 2009-10, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s ... [ More ]

	Historian Alan Taylor stands next to a Boston Red Sox banner (he is a Sox fan). Each spring Taylor helps graduate students organize a weekly game of town ball, an early 19th century baseball-style game that he learned about while doing research in Cooperstown, N.Y. (Karin Higgins/UC Davis)

IN BRIEF: Starbucks, ARC, fire training
Coffee and a workout University Dining Services by Sodexo announced a Feb. 24 grand opening for a Sodexo-licensed Starbucks store in the Activities and Recreation Center. A Sodexo spokesman said ... [ More ]

SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA: NMR event
UC Davis is presenting a symposium to celebrate the campus’s new 800 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer. The free NMR Symposium is scheduled for March 27; the RSVP deadline is March ... [ More ]

	(Karin Higgins/UC Davis)

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 ]

STAFF ASSEMBLY: Forms available for scholarships, Citations for Excellence
Staff Assembly on the Davis campus is preparing once again to recognize staff in a couple of ways: • Citations for Excellence, given annually in conjunction with the Thank Goodness for Staff ... [ More ]

	Allison Minick in The Winter's Tale. (Joey Kunin/UC Davis)

CAMPUS CALENDAR: Intersex Awareness Week and Celebrate Your Body Week
INTERSEX AWARENESS WEEK Feb. 23 — Intersex 101, noon, DeCarli Room Memorial Union; “Revisiting Intersex,” keynote address by activist, educator and photographer Lynnell Stephani ... [ More ]

Hitchcock and Hedwig
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 ]

Preliminary interviews under way for next UC Davis chancellor
To the UC Davis Campus Community: The 18-member Advisory Committee for the Selection of the Chancellor at UC Davis has been continuing its active efforts for the search process of our next ... [ More ]

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