As part of the Distinguished Speakers Series, the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis will host Professor William C. Clark of Harvard University, who will be speaking in Davis on Tuesday evening, January 14, 2014.
When booking airfare please note that the UCOP G-28 Travel Policy allows coach tickets. In order to have the university cover any business or first class airfare, it must meet one or more of the conditions noted in this message.
Effective January 2, 2014, the Davis Campus and UCDHS Benefits Offices will enter into a partnership with the Retirement Administration Service Center (RASC) at the Office of the President in Oakland to assist employees in transitioning to the next important phase of their lives - Retirement.
We just opened a remote rental car location at the North Entry parking structure under our UC Drive carshare program. I believe this location will be very convenient for CA&ES staff and offers hourly rates in addition to full or multiple day reservations.
UC's Retirement Administration Service Center will assume responsibility effective Jan. 2 for most of the retirement processing on the Davis and Sacramento campuses.
For your information, the NASA Human Exploration Research Opportunities have just been announced. There is an Advanced Food Technology topic on nutrient degradation kinetics in Appendix A, Crew Health and Performance. If you are interested in responding, please see the information provided in this article.
Mid-Winter Beekeepers Feast: A Taste of Mead & Honey
Saturday February 8, 2014
6:30pm 9:30pm
Foyer of the Sensory Building, Robert Mondavi Institute, UC Davis
Terroir -- the name given to the unique blend of a vineyard's soils, water and climate -- sculpts the flavor and quality of wine. Now a new study led by UC Davis researchers offers evidence that grapes and the wines they produce are also the product of an unseen but fairly predictable microbial terroir, itself shaped by the climate and geography of the region, vineyard -- and even individual vine.
Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Recruitment Seminar
Kimberley Seed, Ph.D.
"Microbial warfare: Evolutionary dynamics between epidemic Vibrio cholerae and a predatory phage"
Monday, December 9, 2013
The custodial staff at a large university has the enormous task of cleaning not only classrooms and office spaces, but also student residential areas and onsite event locations. You can imagine the amount of trips it takes from a building to the dumpster each day in order to take out the trash. Read more...
Please join us this Friday for the VEN 290 seminar featuring:
Dr. David Mills
Enologic Environmental Ecology
and
Dr. David Block
Elucidating the Mechanism of Ethanol Tolerance in Yeast
Please join us for a seminar:
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2013
3:10 4:00 pm, 2045 BAINER HALL
Innovative Food Processing for Improved Health, Safety and Sustainability
Tara McHugh, Ph.D.
