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As more students test positive for COVID-19, UC Davis Housing scrambles to get apartments prepared for new residents By KATHLEEN QUINN— campus@theaggie.org UC Davis’ isolation and quarantine housing are over half full as omicron sweeps through the student body. As of Jan. 10, 59% of available beds have been filled.  Most students who tested positive […]

Rising COVID-19 case numbers due to the omicron variant have led the university to continue online instruction for three additional weeks By KATHLEEN QUINN— campus@theaggie.org UC Davis will continue remote instruction until Jan. 28, after initially proposing a return to in-person instruction beginning Jan. 10, according to an announcement from Chancellor Gary May on Jan. […]

UC administrators expressed their support of DACA in a letter on Nov. 22 By GABY SAINZ-MEDINA — campus@theaggie.org On Nov. 22, a letter was submitted to Andria Strano, the acting chief, Office of Policy and Strategy, Division of Humanitarian Affairs, on behalf of the regents of the UC in support of the Biden Administration’s efforts […]

The university is planning for remote learning from Jan. 3 to Jan. 7 to allow students, faculty and staff to secure negative COVID-19 tests By JENNIFER MA — campus@theaggie.org  On Dec. 21, UC President Michael Drake emailed campus chancellors about the UC’s response to Omicron. All campuses are permitted to choose their preferred response, and […]

The initiative kickstarts with goals of collaboration and healthcare equity    By CHRISTINE LEE — campus@theaggie.org   UC Davis Health Digital CoLab launched the first Cloud Innovation Center (CIC) based at an academic medical center, in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This initiative will work to address problems within digital healthcare operations. The CIC […]

Students were directed to finish up their assignments on campus during multiple WiFi outages and blackouts By KATHLEEN QUINN — campus@theaggie.org The student housing complex, The Green, opened its doors in September 2020. With a 3,300-bed capacity, it constitutes the nation’s largest student housing project according to Good Day Sacramento. However, according to many students […]

Three independent candidates and three BASED candidates were elected to fill the six available Senate seats By SOPHIE DEWEES — campus@theaggie.org In this fall’s election, seven candidates ran for six seats in ASUCD Senate, two candidates ran for external affairs vice president (EAVP), one candidate ran for transfer student representative and one candidate ran for […]

The march led by Student Researchers United-UAW sheds light on the organization’s ongoing fight for union recognition    By JENNIFER MA — campus@theaggie.org   On Oct. 28, student researchers and postdocs congregated on the corner of 2nd and A St. and marched to Mrak Hall to demand that the UC recognize Student Researchers United-UAW (SRU-UAW). […]

This fall, seven candidates are running for senate, two for external affairs vice president, one for international student representative and one for transfer student representative By CHRISTINE LEE, JENNIFER MA, EMILY REDMAN and GABY SAINZ-MEDINA — campus@theaggie.org The following candidates are running in ASUCD’s 2021 Fall Elections for elected official positions in student government. One […]

ASUCD plans to launch a mental health response task force By CHRISTINE LEE — campus@theaggie.org ASUCD Internal Vice President Juliana Martinez Hernandez called the senate meeting to order on Thursday, Oct. 21 at 6:10 p.m.  Dr. Cindy Schorzman, the medical director of UC Davis Student Health and Counseling Services (SHCS), gave a presentation as an […]

Senators Mallika Hari and Owen Krauss chose to leave the Thrive slate due to differences in values   By EMILY REDMAN — campus@theaggie.org   Senator Owen Krauss, a second-year international relations major, and Senator Mallika Hari, a second-year political science major and public health minor, announced that they will be stepping down from all responsibilities […]

ASUCD commissions and units provided quarterly updates, and the senate passed two emergency bills By EMILY REDMAN — campus@theaggie.org     The senate meeting was called to order at 6:10 p.m. by Vice President Juliana Martinez Hernandez. She then recited the UC Davis Land Acknowledgment.     The senate unanimously confirmed six candidates for the Gender and […]