Students, faculty and staff have spent a few weeks now exploring its new and familiar features, but the renovated Memorial Union received a proper welcome back last week.
Students with the various campus units located inside the recently reopened building helped cut a ribbon before welcoming visitors inside.
Emily Prieto-Tseregounis, assistant vice chancellor and chief of staff, Student Affairs, said she was glad the union now does more to honor veterans — through a memorial wall to be unveiled during this week’s Memorial Day ceremony and with the new UC Davis Veterans Success Center, on the second floor.
She said the many renovations and changes to the building were meant to better serve students.
“As the campus continues to evolve to meet the growing needs of our students, the Memorial Union has evolved with it,” she said.
ASUCD President Josh Dalavai, a third-year political science major, welcomed the reopening of the building he called “the living room of campus.”
“I had it for a little bit of my freshman year, and I’m glad I can go bowling again,” he said.
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Davis joins in systemwide UC Walks event
All across the UC system, faculty, staff retirees and students took advantage of the spring weather last week to go for a stroll. The annual UC Walks event promotes health and an active lifestyle.
Twitter: Walking through the arboretum
Rose Cabral: Perfect day for a walk on campus with colleagues! #UCwalks #wellnessambassador #UCDavis #spring @ucdavis
Aggies among top 4 in e-sports competition
A team of competitors from UC Davis is among the top four collegiate teams in North America, and last weekend traveled to Toronto for a tournament with thousands of dollars of scholarship prize money on the line.
The competition of choice for the Aggies: the online computer game Dota 2.
Tournament organizers Collegiate Starleague provided analysis of UC Davis' match against the University of British Columbia:
In game, Davis was favored to win. They had great engage with the Ursa blink and Storm Spirit, making UBC instinctively back at every engage and losing farm in lane. They had a significant gold and tower lead. Their team coordination was near flawless. This advantage worked until high ground.
For those with less technical knowledge of the game, a video of the roughly hourlong first match is embedded above (the UC Davis match starts around the 5:51:50 mark).
The Aggies fell to the Thunderbirds, who went on to win the tournament and a $20,000 scholarship prize.