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4.10.2009

Bicycling Hall of Fame chooses Davis
Bicycle-friendly UC Davis and the city of Davis are beaming today (April 10) with the announcement that the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame intends to move to Davis. “One knows in the first ... [ More ]


	(Wayne Tilcock/The Davis Enterprise)

’TO UC DAVIS’
The Davis Enterprise calls them “cycling criers”—Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters (kneeling)—who are taking daily rides around town, for 30 consecutive days, interacting with ... [ More ]

Nearly 1,000 responses so far in Staff Assembly's furlough survey
The Davis campus’s Staff Assembly is soliciting opinions on possible employee furloughs — something that the UC system is considering, as UC President Mark Yudof reminded this week in a ... [ More ]

Picnic day: Centennial celebration
Picnic Day comes to campus April 18, bringing with it a potpourri of education, entertainment and a celebration of the UC Davis Centennial. Titled “Reflections: 100 Years of Aggie ... [ More ]

Admissions more selective for fall
UC Davis has accepted fewer than one in two freshman applicants from California high schools in a year of both record-setting applications and enrollment curtailed by budget cuts. With a record ... [ More ]

UC Davis to test WarnMe emergency alert service
UC Davis is scheduled to conduct an all-out test of its WarnMe emergency alerting service — for providing timely information and instructions in major emergencies -- on Wednesday, April ... [ More ]


	Charles Langley (Karin Higgiins/UC Davis)

Geneticist to deliver top senate lecture
Charles Langley’s path to an academic research career in evolutionary genetics was anything but typical. He did not start reading until the fourth grade, he spent three years in high school in ... [ More ]

Senate, federation organize joint awards ceremony
For the first time, the Academic Senate and Academic Federation are presenting a combined ceremony to honor their members for teaching, research and public service. The event is scheduled for ... [ More ]

NASH PRIZE FOR SIMMONS
Law professor and Academic Senate stalwart Dan Simmons is the recipient of the Charles P. Nash Prize for 2009. The Nash prize, in its second year, is presented by the senate, Academic Federation ... [ More ]


	Sonny Rollins is set to perform in next season's Jackson Hall Jazz Series.

MONDAVI ADDS TWISTS FOR 2009-10: Eighth season touted as affordable and fun
The Mondavi Center’s eighth season, revealed last week, includes a couple of scheduling “twists” intended to keep people coming to the theater and to keep series subscriptions ... [ More ]

MONDAVI CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 2009-10
Series prices for faculty and staff reflect a 30 percent discount off regular ticket prices. Current and retired employees are eligible (must provide UC Davis e-mail address when ordering). Each ... [ More ]

BRIEFS: Trees, Fires, Travel, Diversity, Academic Senate
UC Davis: Tree Campus USA UC Davis, with 10,000 trees and a new designation as a Tree Campus USA, is partnering with the city of Davis and TREE Davis for an Arbor Day celebration April 22 at ... [ More ]

FOOD, ETC.: It started with oil, now come the olives
UC Davis’ Olive Center is already producing olive oil. Now the center is adding a new product: olives. Sicilian-style table olives, to be specific, according to Dan Flynn, the Olive ... [ More ]

Art of Regional Change names new director
The Art of Regional Change recently named a new director, jesikah maria ross (she does not capitalize her name). A community culture expert, ross brings to her new position more than 10 years of ... [ More ]

Health system briefs: genetics, stem cells, rural medicine
$2.6M genetics grant The National Institutes of Health has awarded Tony J. Simon, pediatric cognitive neuroscientist with the UC Davis MIND Institute, a five-year, $2.6 million grant to study the ... [ More ]

ENDOWED CHAIRS
Professor Donald Bers gets a hug from Claire Pomeroy, vice chancellor for Human Health Sciences and dean of the School of Medicine, at the Endowed Chairs and Professorships Dinner in Freeborn Hall ... [ More ]

ICONOCLAST: Contrarian computer scientist questions H1-B visas
The following is an excerpt from the UC Davis Magazine story, “Informed Dissent.” Norman Matloff, a computer science professor, says that America’s high-tech labor shortage is a ... [ More ]

Lake Tahoe's clarity continues to hold steady
Lake Tahoe was clear to an average depth of 69.6 feet in 2008, according to UC Davis scientists who have monitored the lake since 1968. That keeps the clarity measurement in the range where it has ... [ More ]

IN RESEARCH: Scientists target Muc4; Lilies can be fatal to cats
Scientists target Muc4 UC Davis Cancer Center scientists say the Muc4 protein may be the key to breast cancer’s spread to other organs and resistance to therapeutic treatment. The study, ... [ More ]

SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA: Climate change in the Andes; Paying you NOT to park
Climate change in the Andes The Hemispheric Institute on the Americas is presenting Climate Change and Water in the Andes, a symposium, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. April 15 in 3001 Plant and ... [ More ]

AT THE MONDAVI CENTER
After the ‘rain’ comes the ‘fog’ Canada’s Cirque Éloize presented Rain at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts in 2005 and 2007, and returns this month ... [ More ]

CAMPUS CALENDAR: Davis Feminist Film Festival; Gamelan Ensemble
FEMFILMFEST The fourth annual Davis Feminist Film Festival is April 16 and 17 at the Veterans Memorial Theater, 203 14th St., Davis. Doors open at 7 p.m., films start at 8. Program information: ... [ More ]

STEBBINS COLD CANYON RESERVE: At home in nature
“Nature is not a place to visit; it is home,” writes Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and UC Davis professor emeritus. And for UC Davis students and teachers, and for many living ... [ More ]

THE OUTDOORS: At the arboretum
DISCOVERY DAY ON PICNIC DAY Picnic Day April 18 is Discovery Day at the UC Davis Arboretum, where the Arboretum Ambassadors will present a free program titled Nature, Arts and Culture, from 10 a.m. ... [ More ]

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