10.16.2009

Campus reduces closure dates
Chancellor Linda Katehi on Oct. 14 announced a new closure plan for the Davis campus that trims four days off the original plan for the December-January holidays. Now, instead of being closed from ... [ More ]

New ASAP programs: Stress resilience during tough economic times
The Academic and Staff Assistance Program this week launched two new programs on stress resilience. One program is for general staff: “Stress Resilience During Tough Economic Times.” ... [ More ]

	Meyer award recipient Gary Sue Goodman

UC cell phone tax policy on hold
UC is suspending new policies governing taxation of university-owned cell phones and calling plans. Under the policies that took effect systemwide in June, employees have been paying federal and ... [ More ]

Library offers restructuring information
The UC Davis University Library has launched a Web site to explain restructuring efforts now under way. The site — lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/about/inside/restructuring — provides answers to ... [ More ]

IN BRIEF: Storm damage, flu, sustainability fair, emeriti-retirees meeting
Minimal loss of trees The Davis campus lost a handful of trees and experienced two power failures in the Oct. 13 storm. “We have lost only five medium-size trees thus far, which is ... [ More ]

	Tomlinson-Keasey

GREEN WAVE: What is UC Davis doing to be more sustainable? Plenty
The campus is getting greener. Just ask Sid England. He’s in the thick of sprouting sustainability efforts at UC Davis, which may well be leading the green wave throughout the UC ... [ More ]

	(Florence Low)

LAURELS: Awards of Distinction
This column offers a sampling of honors recently awarded to UC Davis faculty, staff and units: Nine people were honored Oct. 9 at UC Davis with an Award of Distinction during the 21st annual ... [ More ]

HEALTH SYSTEM: Vaccinations; women's health
Vaccinate — or wear a mask UC Davis Health System faculty, staff, students, vendors and contractors will be required to get vaccinated against the seasonal flu by Dec. 1 or wear masks ... [ More ]

	Roberts

THE OUTDOORS: At Stebbins Cold Canyon
NATURE OUTINGS Star Gazing: Tour of the Night Sky — 6:30-9:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17. Bryn Bishop leads a 1 1/4-mile hike, slightly uphill, to a meadow — where she will focus on changes ... [ More ]

	Professor Bella Merlin, left, and graduate student Anne Reeder rin Elephant's Graveyard.

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 ]

	Painter at work: Brandon Tucker ((Mark Honbo/UC Davis))

Get your spirit on — and your PJs — for homecoming
Pajamas, marching band, Gunrock, spirit squad—sounds like a traditional homecoming, and it is—with everything except the bonfire. “We decided to try something new and ... [ More ]

PRIDE WEEK '09
OCT. 19 Visibility Day!—Pride Week kickoff, with lots of pride and free pizza. Noon-1 p.m., Quad. Town hall—For open discussion of such issues as budget cuts, Proposition 8 and the ... [ More ]

	Christopher Gardner

CALIF0RNIA CULTURE
Two UC Davis professors are busy preparing for the inaugural issue of Boom, a new journal about California’s cultures, politics and histories. Louis Warren, W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of ... [ More ]

	Bidart

DISABILITY AWARENESS DAY PANEL TO ADDRESS MENTAL HEALTH
David Follette, professor emeritus of surgery in the School of Medicine, says mental illness is especially deserving of an “awareness day.” For one reason, he said, people need to know ... [ More ]

Older than 60? Earlier viruses help fight H1N1
UC Davis researchers studying the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, formerly referred to as “swine flu,” have identified a group of immunologically important sites on the virus that are also ... [ More ]

Making it OK to say, ‘Pass the salt’
As two federal panels begin work on 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and new regulations are being considered regarding sodium consumption, a new analysis questions the scientific logic and ... [ More ]

SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA: 'Sustainability across the Curriculum,' Collaboration between scientists and the public
Putting sustainability in all kinds of curricula “Sustainability Across the Curriculum” is the topic for a program next week in the Design Lecture Series. Organizers said Geoffrey ... [ More ]

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