6.12.2009

Voluntary separations offered
Campus officials said June 8 they are offering severance pay to eligible employees who elect to leave their jobs. The Voluntary Separation Program is open to nonrepresented employees, with ... [ More ]

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Hypothetical savings from furloughs
With the governor and Legislature still deliberating a solution to the state's $24-billion-plus budget shortfall, the UC system does not know how much it will get in state funding for ... [ More ]

	Matt Fucile shows where a new aisle will go in the Pavilion.

Poetry slam, town hall spurs student dialogue
Thanks to UC Davis, the youth of Sacramento can speak up on the issues they face and give educators an idea of what is happening in their lives. The Sacramento Area Youth Speaks program is part of ... [ More ]

IN TRANSITION: Ian Blake
Ian Blake has been named the new assistant dean for the Division of the Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies. His appointment began June 1. Blake, who has served as interim assistant dean since ... [ More ]

IN BRIEF: Retirees reception, distinguished teaching, USO tour, blood drive
New retirees reception UC Davis’ 2008-09 retirees are invited to a reception set for June 15 at the University Club. The event is for anyone who has retired since last July, or who will ... [ More ]

	M.R.C. Greenwood

AGGIES ON THE MOVE TEAM CHALLENGE: Final standings
The Category 5 team took first place in the eight-week walking challenge, with 920,742 steps per person, on average (that is 16,442 steps a day!). The team: Manny Castillo, Nick McLain, Debby ... [ More ]

UC Davis: Are you ‘ready?’
Fire damages your department’s building. How will your unit get back on its feet? How will you continue to provide vital services to the campus? Dozens of campus units are answering ... [ More ]

FOOD, ETC.: Conference discount; Heirloom tomatoes; Wine tastings
Conference discount The UC Davis Olive Center announced a 50 percent discount for faculty and staff who wish to participate in Beyond Extra Virgin: An International Conference on Excellence in ... [ More ]

	Officer Ralph Nuno is the campus's first full-time bike officer in at least 10 years. (Cheng Saechao/UC Davis)

Costs trimmed for IT conference
A training conference will show off its budget makeover when about 370 information technology staff from across UC gather on campus June 16-17. Information and Educational Technology has combined ... [ More ]

New grad, cancer survivor to study medicine
For many people who have endured a cancer diagnosis, then arduous and sometimes devastating treatments, the best way forward is to put the entire experience behind them. David Tseng plans to do ... [ More ]

	Chelsea waits patiently as mechanical engineering students, from left, Nelson Dichter, Jay Panchal, Blake Summers and David Shira make adjustments to the physical therapy device they created to help disabled dogs learn to walk again. (Liese Greensfelder/UC Davis)

‘Working’ MBA to relocate downtown
The UC Davis Graduate School of Manage-ment announced June 12 that it is moving its nationally ranked Sacramento Working Professional MBA Program from leased office space near the Tower Bridge in ... [ More ]

Students lead horses into auction arena for graduation
Not all finals take place in a lecture hall. For more than a dozen animal science students, the year’s toughest test will come in the auction arena during the annual horse production sale ... [ More ]

VARIATIONS ON A THEME: Natural selection is one factor in people’s genetic differences, but migration, population changes and chance also play a role
Local pressures such as climate or diet that affect natural selection are only partly responsible for differences in the genetic makeup of human populations, a new study finds. Migrations, the ... [ More ]

Tough task: Keeping maize seed stock pure
The appearance of genetically modified proteins in maize seed stocks throughout Mexico paints a curious pattern that suggests why efforts to prevent the flow of transgenic plant material into that ... [ More ]

	Patricia Racette as Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly.

THE OUTDOORS: At the arboretum and Stebbins Cold Canyon
AT THE ARBORETUM Folk Music Jams — Play or listen. Noon June 12 and 26; July 10 and 24; and Aug. 7 and 21. Wyatt Deck. Tour — The White Flower Garden in June. 11 a.m. June 13, ... [ More ]

EXHIBITIONS: First-year MFA students show their works
NEW THIS WEEK MFA First-Year Student Exhibit — Through July 5, Pence Gallery, 212 D St., Davis. The exhibitors: Johanna Barron and Hyung-Mo Chu (installations), Joshua Pelletier (mixed ... [ More ]

CORRECTION
Former Provost Virginia Hinshaw allocated $214,000 for design and construction of the campus’s new outdoor reflective area, officially called the “Project to Honor Native ... [ More ]

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