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Posting this which I got by email. Please consider attending if you have any connection to the College of Biological Sciences.

Dear Colleagues in CBS,

This is a reminder that the last Dean candidate (candidate D) will visit campus tomorrow Wednesday, March 16 and Thursday,March 17. Please attend the public forum. Thank you for your participation and input.

The CV for candidate D is available from the provost’s website: http://provost.ucdavis.edu/initiatives-and-activities/activities/er/index.html

Please attend the Dean Candidate Public Forum!

Wednesday MARCH 16

2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Presentation Topic: Role of Biological Sciences in Research and Higher Education in the 21st Century

PLACE: Room 1030 in Gladys Valley Hall- see attached map for location of building

And map of the first floor- NOTE, in different lecture hall from last time.

Valley Hall is just south of Med Sci 1B. Valley Hall is in the Veterinary College complex. Please see attached map. The lecture hall is on the first floor- see pdf of floor map.

It is only a short walk from the parking lot by the stadium/genome center. I suggest carpooling, biking or walking. Bring a colleague along with you!

We value your input regarding the candidates. You may submit them directly to Provost Hexter at deancbssearch. Or you may submit them to any member of the Recruitment Advisory Committee, or to me Judy Callis (jcallis) or to the chair of the committee Dean Lairmore (mdlairmore). Comments regarding all candidates are due 72 hours after this visit.

After the last candidate, the audio recordings for all candidates will be available from the provost’s website.

Go to http://provost.ucdavis.edu/ On the left is "Executive Recruitments" Click on "Dean-College of Biological Sciences". The cvs are and audio recordings will be accessible from the menu on the right.

Valley Hall, Print Floor 1.pdf

Gladys Valley Hall map.pdf

Got this in email and thought it would be of interest:

Dear Friends,

Could you please share the announcement below with faculty in your graduate program? Associate Professor Mark Jerng is the organizer of the event. There is great potential for these panelists to shed light on mentoring historically underrepresented graduate students for doctoral program success. Given the predictions of considerable growth and changing US demographics, this is an opportunity for faculty to dialogue directly with faculty colleagues from Hampton University, a historically Black university.

Best,

Josephine Moreno

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Josephine Moreno, Ph.D.

Graduate Diversity Officer

Office of Graduate Studies

Humanities, Arts & Cultural Studies,
Social Sciences (HASS) and Education

Helping Faculty Prepare Underrepresented Students of Color for Doctoral Success

A Discussion of Teaching Practices and Institutional Structures

Monday, April 4, 2016

2:00 – 3:00 pm

Voorhies 126

This roundtable discussion addresses institutional structures of higher education and practices around preparing underrepresented students of color for doctoral programs. It features faculty members from Hampton University, a historically black university founded in 1868, who will share their experiences and expertise in teaching students at Hampton University and in advising and mentoring undergraduate research.

Our discussion will engage

· the teaching and mentoring of underrepresented students of color

· teaching and advising across different kinds of institutional spaces

· institutional structures and its impact on underrepresented students of color

· race in higher education

Panelists:

Dr. Amee Carmines, Department of English, Hampton University

Dr. Joyce Jarrett, Department of English, Hampton University

Dr. Mark Jerng, Department of English, University of California, Davis

Dr. Amee Carmines is Professor of English at Hampton University. Her academic focus is western and world literature and critical theory. During her twenty-nine year tenure at the university, she has served as faculty mentor to student fellows associated with the Dana Scholars Program, UNCF Mellon/Mays Undergraduate Research Program, and with IRT Fellows. She also routinely teaches central courses, such as literary criticism and senior seminar.

Dr. Joyce Jarrett holds the endowed chair of Distinguished Professor of English at Hampton University. She has taught a range of courses to include African American literature, senior thesis, advanced writing, and introduction to literary studies (a required tools course for majors). Currently, she also serves as a UNCF Mellon/Mays faculty mentor. Dr. Jarrett has also served the university in numerous administrative posts: Chair of the Department of English, Executive Assistant to the President, and Provost.

Dr. Mark Jerng is Associate Professor of English and Graduate Adviser for the PhD Program in English at University of California, Davis. He is Lead PI for the UCD Summer Program for Literary Analysis and Success in the Humanities (SPLASH).

This event is sponsored through the UCD Summer Program for Literary Analysis and Success in the Humanities (SPLASH), a UC-HBCU initiative that funds collaborations across the UCs and historically black colleges and universities. UCD SPLASH brings Hampton University undergraduates to UC Davis for an 8-week summer program during which they work with faculty mentors and develop independent research projects. The goal is to provide an undergraduate research experience as well as professionalizing activities in helping prepare students for applying to PhD programs in English and literature programs.

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April 4 UCD-Hampton U Roundtable Event.pdf

The Genome Center Systems and Synthetic Biology Seminar Series present:

Uncovering mechanistic connections between the microbiome and the Immune system: new experimental designs meet new computational methods.

Speaker: Richard Bonneau
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
New York University and the Simons Foundation

Date: Friday, March 18th, 2016, 10am – 11am
Location: 1005 GBSF

The Provost’s Forums on the Public University and the Social Good Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Open Access, Piracy, and the Scholarly Publishing Market

Christopher Kelty

Professor in the Departments of Information Studies and Anthropology, and the Institute for Society and Genetics, at the University of California, Los Angeles

Christopher Kelty pursues research in the cultural signi cance of information technology, especially in science and engineering. He is the author most recently of Two Bits: The Cultural Signifcance of Free Software (Duke University Press, 2008), as well as numerous articles on open source and free software, including their impact on education, nanotechnology, the life sciences, and issues pertaining to peer review and research in the sciences and the humanities. He is trained in science studies (history and anthropology) and has written about methodological issues facing anthropology today.

In his lecture, Professor Kelty will provide necessary context by reviewing the politics and history of the challenges of scholarly publication; how publishing ts into knowledge production; how publishers have come to be a key component in the scholarly ecology and the political economy that sustain both universities and individual academic work; and the emergence of open access research and its links to other similar movements and technologies. Building on this context, Professor Kelty will focus on the struggle of some academics to create a viable form of open access, and the under-theorized indifference of the majority of academics to the open access question. Using his own experience in shepherding an open access policy through the University of California’s academic governance system, he will identify some of the reasons open access is simultaneously desired and resisted, and reflect on the assumptions beneath this tension. He will conclude by reflecting on the idea that we may not want the open access we are going to get.

Lecture:

3 to 4:30 p.m.
Alpha Gamma Rho Hall Alumni Center

Reception:

4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Library
Alumni Center

Sponsors Include: The Of ce of the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, the Community and Regional Development Program, the Center for Science and Innovation Studies, and Science and Technology Studies

Kelty 3-16-16.pdf

***** CPB Seminar Reminder for Tuesday, March 8, 2016, 4:10pm in 1022 Life Sciences *****

Speaker: Jeremy Berg
Graduate Student, Population Biology Graduate Group, UC Davis
Title: “Tales from the land of human genetics: How selection, drift and pleiotropy have impacted quantitative trait evolution in humans”
Host: Graham Coop

The entire CPB Seminar schedule for Winter Quarter 2016 is available here.

The 1st candidate for the open position for Dean of the College of Biological Sciences will be presenting a public talk today.

Today Monday, March 7, 2016

CBS Dean Candidate Public Forum- All are invited to attend.

2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Public Forum Dean Candidate

Presentation Topic: Role of Biological Sciences in Research and Higher Education in the 21st Century

Activities and Recreation Center, Ballroom A