OK, now we can REALLY brag. As Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef pointed out recently, our Aggie athletics program has been on quite a roll. It started last August when UC Davis was named the best school in the nation for women athletes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II by Sports Illustrated for Women. Next, UC Davis undergrad Jamila Demby was named the National Collegiate Athletics Association Woman of the Year in October for her community service and achievements as a student-athlete. Jamila just recently received the John McLendon Memorial Minority Post-graduate Scholarship Award, presented at a National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics convention. At the same convention, Larry Swanson and Scott Brayton of the Intercollegiate Athletics Department made presentations to 750 administrators about the success of our student fan club, the Aggie Pack, and TeamAGGIE undergrad Brian Thompson received the national College Division Volunteer Award. Thanks to yet another award at that convention, we’re having to worry about where to put our third Sears Directors’ Cup for having the best overall Division II program in the land....
Taking a break from fund raising, Jerry Jahn, director of development communications, and his spouse Elizabeth Langland (dean of humanities, arts and cultural studies) will be walking the Cornish Coast of England over 10 days in August. Evidently they’re not new to this kind of long-distance deep-thinking/long-walking excursion. One thing’s sure ... they’ll be packing light on their trip across the Atlantic. Everything they take they’ll eventually be carrying on their backs....
We’re impressed by the solitary unit that is hosting three seminars over the next two weeks. We’re wondering what the Bodega lab serves at the seminar coffee break. If it’s chocolate donuts with sprinkles or blueberry muffins, can we come?...
Sally Harvey of Academic and Staff Assistance Program has concluded that the folks in her office in the A Street Guilbert House are into babies. Among those females of childbearing age (that’s four of the eight employees there) three are pregnant: Lisa Brodkey of Sexual Harassment Education, and Kristina DeLeon and Rose Turner of ASAP. By next January, the office will boast 11 children under the age of 10.
The School/University Partnerships Office, now managing the Reservation for College Program, recently basked in the limelight at a presentation to the UC Board of Regents on systemwide outreach progress. The meeting led with the newsreel of last year’s UC Davis Reservation for College event and program as one of the best examples of K-12 partnerships in the system. The regents watched 15 minutes worth of news spots, including Public Communications’ "NewsWatch" piece for KVIE on the program, Univision’s coverage in Spanish and stories from Channels 3, 10 and 13. UC Davis’ publicity was singled out because it is exactly what UC desires.
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