Campus News

Interactive map displays local, national, international trends in coronavirus cases The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and CalSurv, a computer-generated disease outbreak monitoring system, cooperated to generate an interactive online map and graph set displaying daily changes to local, national and international COVID-19 trends, according to UC Davis News. Christopher Barker, an associate professor […]

Laptops are still available for distribution during the first weeks of Spring Quarter In response to UC Davis’ transition to online instruction platforms, efforts by the Information and Education Technology (IET) department and the UC Davis Library addressed concerns regarding equal access to technology. Anita Nichols, the director of client success for UC Davis Information […]

UC Davis administration will explore option of in-person commencement in December UC Davis’ Spring Commencement of 2020 will move to a virtual platform due to COVID-19, rather than being held in-person, according to an email sent out today by UC Davis Chancellor Gary May to the university’s Class of 2020, faculty and staff. May said […]

Identity of man seen with machete in his backpack remains unknown The California Aggie recently sat down with UC Davis Campus Police Chief Joe Farrow to discuss an earlier incident on March 9 in which a suspect approached campus with a machete for unknown reasons. The suspect was first seen off campus in South Davis, […]

UC student workers, career staff, clinical researchers could see reduction in hours due to COVID-19 On April 2, UC President Janet Napolitano released a letter to the UC community announcing that there will be no COVID-19-related layoffs between now and the end of the fiscal year, on June 30, 2020. As of today, the UC […]

Current UC President Janet Napolitano to step down this summer The UC is in search of its 21st president who will lead and oversee all 10 campuses, five medical centers, three national laboratories as well as agriculture and natural resources programs. Current UC President Janet Napolitano is expected to step down by August 2020. Napolitano […]

Faculty explore alternatives to engage, offer flexibility to students  Following UC Davis’ decision to implement remote instruction for the remainder of the academic year, students and faculty now face some challenges in the transition from in-person to online classes. John Theobald, a continuing lecturer in the Department of Communication, will be instructing CMN 142: Newsmaking […]

Campus closures prompt ASUCD to prepare for virtual Senate meetings Outgoing ASUCD Vice President Shreya Deshpande called the March 12 Senate meeting to order at 6:16 p.m. The meeting began by swearing in newly elected Senators and presidential representatives under oath. Thursday’s meeting was simplified and ended earlier, given health concerns over spreading COVID-19. Heartwarming […]

Currently unknown how COVID-19 will impact proposed UC tuition hike The vote on a UC-wide tuition hike, opposed by many, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, has been postponed again, after it had been previously postponed due to a clerical error. The latest vote, scheduled to take place at the UC Regents March 20 meeting, was pushed […]

Separate locations lead to confusion On Super Tuesday, March 3, students and Davis residents alike had the opportunity to vote in the presidential primary election and other local elections at on-campus polling places. Polling places opened at 7 a.m. and remained open until 8 p.m. Voters had the option to vote at two locations on […]

Several members active in ASUCD voice concerns over Elections Committee and violation points During this past Winter Elections cycle, ASUCD saw the largest voter turnout in its recorded history. The association also saw a slew of resulting election violation accusations, with both the independent candidate and candidates running on either the BASED or Thrive slates […]

UAW 2865 wins victories for fired UCSC graduate students, now-virtual movement expanding state-wide Negotiations between United Auto Workers (UAW) 2865 and the UC that took place during the month of March have resulted in concessions for the 82 UC Santa Cruz graduate student workers fired on Feb. 28. Yesterday, UAW 2865 announced in a press […]