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1.29.1999
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Dateline: Research Program Puts Adventure on The Map
Jean Colvin is one lucky administrator.
Not only does she promote the dream of field research in exotic places to the public, the director of the University Research Expeditions Program gets out ... [ More ]
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1.29.1999
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Dateline: Students may Tax Themselves $65 Million for Facilities
UC Davis students may be asked next month to increase their own fees to finance about $65 million in athletic facilities and other campus improvements under an initiative proposed by student ... [ More ]
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1.29.1999
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Dateline: Child Protection Program Gets a Visit From Gore
UC Davis Medical Center's Child Protection Center was in the national spotlight this week when Vice President Al Gore paid a call.
Gore toured the child protection center Monday during a two-day ... [ More ]
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1.28.1999
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High School Students Get Taste of University Studies
On Saturday mornings, Dina Jimenez usually sleeps in, talks to her friends on the phone or hangs out at the mall. But last Saturday the 10th-grade student at Sacramento High School used an alarm ... [ More ]
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1.28.1999
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Burgundy Symposium: A Meeting of the Wines
California's leading winemakers and wine scholars are teaming up with their counterparts from Oregon and France's famed Burgundy region to share experiences, taste fine
wines and present innovative ... [ More ]
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1.28.1999
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Deal-making Focus of Environmental Law Conference
John McCaull, California legislative affairs director for the National Audubon Society, will be among the featured speakers at the 13th annual environmental law conference at the UC Davis law school ... [ More ]
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1.28.1999
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$13.8 Million Grant Will Fund International Livestock Studies
To support a comprehensive international livestock research program, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a $13.8 million grant to the University of California, ... [ More ]
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1.28.1999
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Media Event: Carlink Car-Sharing Project Hits The Road
What: Researchers, project partners and participants will demonstrate CarLink: A Smart Car-Sharing System for news media. Learn how 60 Bay Area residents will try to leave their personal cars in the ... [ More ]
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1.26.1999
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Vet Hospital Seeks Help in Locating Missing Cockatoo
The UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital is requesting the public's help in locating a pale pink Moluccan cockatoo, which disappeared from the hospital between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ... [ More ]
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1.20.1999
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UC Davis Receives Record Number of Applications
High-school seniors and community college students have applied to the University of California, Davis, in record numbers, for an all-time high of 26,962 applications for fall 1999. The figure ... [ More ]
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1.20.1999
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Examining Past May Help Biologists Restore Salmon Populations
A historical understanding of the decline of chinook salmon in California's Central Valley may help conservation biologists set goals for restoring this formerly prodigious population, UC Davis ... [ More ]
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1.20.1999
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Campus Environmental Institute to Be Inaugurated Jan. 25
A UC Davis incubator for environmental research -- the John Muir Institute of the Environment -- will hold an open house from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25, in the lobby of Kerr Hall.
The ... [ More ]
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1.19.1999
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UC Davis Launches Public Campaign to Bring the Arts to a New Stage
The musical score for a campaign for a UC Davis performing arts hall is marked pianissimo no more. The dynamics shift to forte with the public launch of a fund-raising effort to build a much-needed ... [ More ]
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1.19.1999
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Celebration Gala Jan. 23 to Launch UC Davis Arts Center Campaign
What: A celebration gala to launch publicly the campaign to build a center for the performing arts at the University of California, Davis. Live music, a video about the arts campaign and a toast to ... [ More ]
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1.14.1999
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Symposium to Highlight Wildlife Health Issues
A variety of health problems affecting wildlife in California and elsewhere in the nation will be discussed during a symposium to be held Saturday, Jan. 23, at the UC Davis School of Veterinary ... [ More ]
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1.14.1999
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Impeachment
* Impeachment -- Larry S. Berman, a professor of political science at UC Davis and acting director of the university's Washington Center, says the Senate risks further alienating voters if it does ... [ More ]
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1.14.1999
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Olympic Scandal
* Olympic Scandal -- Michael W. Maher, professor and associate dean of the Graduate School of Management at UC Davis, researches white-collar crime and business ethics. He has published on the ... [ More ]
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1.14.1999
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Brazil's Economy
* Brazil's Economy -- Wing Thye Woo, a professor of economics at UC Davis, says the decline in the value of Brazil's currency and the collapse of the country's stock market will result in substantial ... [ More ]
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1.14.1999
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Valley Foundation Gift to Help Vet School Remedy Facilities Deficiencies
A $10.7 million gift from the Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation -- the largest single cash gift in the campus's history -- will boost significantly efforts to improve aging facilities at the ... [ More ]
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1.8.1999
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Dateline: Fund-raising Report Misreads Alumni Group's Function
Staff members of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association say its inclusion in a recent report by the California attorney general's office inaccurately portrayed the organization's fund-raising ... [ More ]
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1.8.1999
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Dateline: Y2k Bug is Getting Early Treatment
It's January 1999. Do you know where your millennium computer bugs are?
UC Davis technical wizards have been working the past 2 1/2 years to scour campuswide systems for the software glitch that ... [ More ]
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1.8.1999
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Dateline: Victors of The Turf Battle
UC Davis turf tenders just received extra incentive to make sure the grass is always greener on your side of campus.
Last month the Grounds Division won its first national award in the universities ... [ More ]
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1.8.1999
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Dateline: Engineers Learn to Speak Biology
Dan Fifer came to UC Davis to become a structural engineer. Then an elective physiology class turned his attention to medicine. Soon, he says, "I realized I was as interested in the instrumentation ... [ More ]
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1.8.1999
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Expeditions With UC Researchers Offer Adventure With a Purpose
Visit exotic lands, help scientists understand the world better and get a tax break on the whole adventure -- what more could you ask from a vacation?
For the 23rd year, the University of ... [ More ]
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1.7.1999
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Fruit-fly Mating Produces a Game of Evolutionary Leapfrog
EMBARGOED for release until 4 p.m. EST Jan. 7, 1999
Male and female fruit flies have a common interest in reproduction, but they're at odds on one key point: While every male wants his sperm to ... [ More ]
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1.5.1999
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Economic Historian to Inaugurate Speaker Series
Editor's Note: North will be available to meet with reporters from 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Allewelt Room of the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center, located at the corner of Old Davis Road and Mrak ... [ More ]
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