Campus News

Mock’s memoir chosen for Campus Community Book Project, inspires year of workshops, lectures, panels On Feb. 5, Janet Mock delivered an hourlong talk at the Mondavi Center followed by both moderator and audience questions. Mock also took part in a Q&A panel alongside UC Davis and Yolo County LGBTQIA advocates earlier that same day at […]

Institute for Social Sciences hosts Miller’s lecture, book signing On Jan. 25, journalist Todd Miller visited UC Davis to speak about his most recent book, “Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security,” as a guest of the UC Davis Institute for Social Sciences. At the lecture, Miller described his travels for his book […]

A year of accomplishments, controversy, pursuits for the executive office Michael Gofman, a second-year economics and political science double major, has been serving his term as an ASUCD senator since he was elected in Winter Elections of 2017. Gofman ran on the platforms of environmental sustainability, affordability for low-income students and student-teacher relations. ASUCD President […]

UC Davis team documents deportee narratives The Humanizing Deportation project is a collaboration between UC Davis and Colegio de la Frontera Norte, in Tijuana, Mexico, to document personal stories of deportees expelled from the United States. The narratives were collected last summer over the course of a month-long field study. Robert Irwin, a professor in […]

May, Lund join legacy of UC Davis staff in Academy On Feb. 7,  the National Academy of Engineers announced that it had elected UC Davis Chancellor Gary May and Jay Lund, a distinguished professor of civil and environmental engineering and the director of the university’s Center for Watershed Sciences, to join the organization. According to […]

Meeting opened to students, public On Jan. 26, UC Davis students and Students for a Democratic Society held a public meeting with Chancellor Gary May and other UC Davis administrators in the Student Community Center. While the meeting was spurred by proposed UC tuition hikes, SDS also demanded that UC Davis address housing and food […]

Regents vote to defer vote on tuition hike From Jan. 24 to 25, the UC Board of Regents met for its bi-monthly meeting at UC San Francisco. Among the most anticipated topics discussed was the proposed undergraduate tuition increase. The meeting began with an open forum. Most of the speakers present urged the regents to […]

Picketers protest UC treatment of workers On Feb. 1, workers in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees trade union picketed at the ARC in protest of the treatment they receive in their positions from the UC. AFSCME represents over 24,000 employees across all 10 UC campuses. Others outside of the union came […]

De la Torre will be first Latina president of SDSU On Jan. 30, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and Campus Diversity Adela de la Torre was appointed as the next president of San Diego State University by the California State University Board of Trustees. De la Torre will be stepping into her role as president […]

Discussion over OASR unit director position leads to disagreement On Jan. 18, at 6:12 p.m., Vice President Adilla Jamaludin called the ASUCD Senate meeting to order in the Mee Room of the Memorial Union. The evening’s first presentation was given by the Office of Student Support and Judicial Affairs. Don Dudley and Jennifer Chow presented […]

Club hopes to raise enough money to rescue North Korean refugee On Jan. 18, Liberty in North Korea hosted Charles Ryu, a 24-year-old North Korean defector, in the Student Community Center. Soo Kyeom Lee, a UC Davis alumna and the original founder of LINK, hosted the event and discussed the club’s goals for the year. […]

Panel featured Chancellor, Provost, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs On Jan. 22, an administrative panel was held in the Multipurpose Room of the Student Community Center. The panel, titled “Building Bridges,” was an effort to bring about constructive dialogue and speak about campuswide concerns. Panelists included Chancellor Gary May, Provost Ralph Hexter, Vice Chancellor of […]