Campus News

Unitrans is making changes to several of its routes for the upcoming year. The adjustments went into effect Monday and will continue throughout the school year. While the majority of Unitrans routes will remain the same for the upcoming year, changes have been made to the K, W and P/Q lines, said Anthony Palmere, assistant general manager of administration for Unitrans.

UC Davis will partner with state, federal and private agencies to study carbon capture farming in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, in an effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The collaboration is enabled by a three-year $12.3 million grant awarded by the state Department of Water Resources to the U.S. Geological Survey.

University ofCalifornia President Mark Yudof announced thecreation of an accountability programdesignedto assess UC’s performance on multiple levels and generate reports available to the public.The firstreport isexpected to be released this fall. The report isintendedto make theuniversity more transparent and accessible to the public,aid in future strategic planning efforts for theUniversity of CaliforniaBoard of Regents and assist in managing budgeting issues.

UC Davis expertsalongwith the Public Policy Institute of California concluded that a peripheral canalis the best solution to support both the economic and ecological value of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

As wildfires continue to blaze acrossCalifornia,one UC Davis group is aiming to learn more about the fires‘ potential effects on the ecosystem of theLake Tahoe basin. TheUC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center,a group of professors,researchers and graduate students studying sustainable use of the lake,recently installed a fourth air samplerdesigned to provide detailed analyses of the compounds and toxic materialsresultingfrom forest wildfires.

In the July28issue of The California Aggie,the article “UC to open two new medical schools” statedthat the UC regents granted approval for the opening of a medical school on the UC Merced campus.The article should have stated that UC Merced has received approval to plan a new medical school.The Aggie regrets the error.

An Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday to lift a February2007injunction against UC Berkeley that preventedthe building of a new athletic training facility next toMemorialStadium.The controversy over the new facility centers on its location.In order to build the structure next to the stadium,the university plans to clear44trees from a grove of about80oaks,redwoods and other trees.

UC DavisMedical Centerwas named among the nation’s top50“Best Hospitals“ for the16thconsecutive yearbyU.S.News & World Report in its annual survey of over5,000national hospitals.The results were made public July10online.

With the recent approval from the University of California Board of Regents for the creation of two new medical schools, UC is hoping to help alleviate the severe shortage of physicians in California’s rural and minority regions.

The University of California Board of Regents had the first of many discussions about a faculty proposalaiming to expand the number of freshman applications entitled to review at its meetingearlier this month.The proposal,pending approval from theregents,would take effect infall of2012by eliminating the requirement for applicants to submit two SAT II subject test scores.

In the July24issue of The California Aggie,the article “UCD graduate students start water resources website” stated that the website has users inIraq,when it actually has users inIran.The article also stated that the site has users in88countries,when in reality it has users in77countries.The Aggie regrets the errors.

As the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games nears, UC Davis’ own husband and wife veterinary team are preparing to lead the Olympic equine veterinary facility. Jack Snyder and Sharon Spier have worked at every Olympic game since 1988 when they were first asked to help during the Korea games because of their combined experience and the lack of equine veterinarians in Korea at the time.