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<title>Experts on Salmonella, E. Coli and Food Safety</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With numerous recent outbreaks of both salmonella and E. coli food poisoning across the United States, these UC Davis faculty members are available for comment on related topics.

PRODUCE SAFETY RESEARCH -- Trevor Suslow is a Cooperative Extension specialist in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences with extensive technical and applied research experience in postharvest pathology, quality and safety of perishable produce. He can discuss hazard analysis and risk assessment of E. coli, salmonella and other pathogen contamination in fruits and vegetables from field to fork. Suslow has provided technical input to industry and federal food-safety documents and helped implement training programs since 1995, and is broadly knowledgeable about what industry is doing to prevent or mitigate microbial contamination, how pathogen testing is being integrated into this effort, and whether microbial food-safety initiatives could have detrimental environmental impacts. Contact: Trevor Suslow, Plant Sciences, (530) 754-8313, cell (530) 304-1257, tvsuslow@ucdavis.edu. (Note: Suslow will not be available July 6-11.)

PRODUCE SAFETY EDUCATION -- James Gorny is executive director of the Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center at UC Davis. The center provides research-based information to the fresh-produce industry, as well as consumers, on how fresh fruits and vegetables should be handled to reduce losses and maintain their quality, safety and marketability. Gorny also has expertise in produce food-safety regulatory policy and served as editor-in-chief of numerous produce food safety-guidance documents currently in use by the industry today. Contact: James Gorny, Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center, (530) 754-9270, jrgorny@ucdavis.edu, http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/. (Note: Gorny will not be available July 4-8.)

TRACKING E. COLI -- Rob Atwill is a specialist in waterborne infectious diseases in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. He is part of a team of UC and government scientists who are tracking the sources of E. coli O157:H7 in California's Salinas Valley as part of a large study funded by the USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES). He has projects on microbial water quality throughout California addressing a wide range of issues related to livestock, wildlife and water quality. Contact: Rob Atwill, School of Veterinary Medicine, (530) 754-2154, ratwill@ucdavis.edu.

ECONOMICS AND POLICY -- Daniel Sumner is the Frank H. Buck Jr. Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and director of the University of California Agricultural Issues Center, based at UC Davis. Sumner specializes in national and international agricultural policy. He can discuss the impacts of foodborne-illness outbreaks on agriculture in California and throughout the United States. Contact: Daniel Sumner, Agricultural Issues Center, (530) 752-1668, dan@primal.ucdavis.edu.

ECONOMICS AND POLICY IN FRESH-PRODUCE INDUSTRY -- Roberta Cook is a Cooperative Extension economist who focuses on fresh-produce marketing, food distribution and international trade in fruits and vegetables. She can discuss the long- and short-term impacts of disease outbreaks on the fresh-produce industry. Contact: Roberta Cook, Agricultural and Resource Economics, (530) 752-1531, cook@primal.ucdavis.edu. (Note: Cook will not be available July 4-6.) 

PRODUCE SAFETY -- Bonnie Fernandez is the executive director for the Center for Produce Safety in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at UC Davis. The center was established through a cooperative arrangement with the produce industry. Its mission is to provide ready-to-use, science-based solutions that prevent or minimize produce safety vulnerabilities. Contact: Bonnie Fernandez, Center for Produce Safety, (530) 757-5777, bfernandez@ucdavis.edu.

CONSUMER ATTITUDES -- Christine Bruhn is a UC Davis food-science marketing specialist, director of the UC Davis Center for Consumer Research and a national expert on consumer attitudes about food. She can discuss public reaction to the current illness outbreaks and how consumers can best guard against foodborne illnesses. Contact: Christine Bruhn, Food Science and Technology, (530) 752-2774, cell (530) 219-2888, cmbruhn@ucdavis.edu.

SAFE FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND NUTS -- Linda Harris is a University of California Cooperative Extension food microbiologist in the Department of Food Science and Technology, and associate director of the UC Davis-based Western Institute for Food Safety and Security. Her laboratory conducts research on the foodborne pathogens salmonella, E. coli, shigella and Listeria monocytogenes. She can discuss food-safety issues, especially those relating to the fruit, vegetable and nut industries, as well as consumer food-safety practices such as the best ways to wash fruits and vegetables. Contact: Linda Harris, Food Science and Technology, (530) 754-9485 or 757-5767, ljharris@ucdavis.edu. (Note: Harris will not be available July 4-6.)

FOOD ANIMAL SCIENCE AND POLICY -- Jerry Gillespie is a UC Davis veterinary pathologist with special expertise in the area of food animals and food safety. He can discuss policy issues related to E. coli outbreaks and how science, government and industry are working together to address food safety and food security challenges. Contact: Jerry Gillespie, Western Institute for Food Safety and Security, (707) 744-1617, jrgillespie@wifss.ucdavis.edu.

DISEASES TRANSMITTED VIA FOOD AND WATER -- Dean Cliver is an emeritus professor of food safety in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and an expert on diseases that can be spread through food and water. He has served as an adviser to state and federal agencies on a variety of food-safety issues. He can discuss the science of microbial diseases and how illness caused by E. coli, salmonella, etc. can be transmitted to people via fresh foods. Contact: Dean Cliver, School of Veterinary Medicine, (530) 754-9120 or 759-9459, docliver@ucdavis.edu.

CONVENTIONAL AND ORGANIC AGRICULTURE -- Karen Klonsky is a Cooperative Extension economist who specializes in farm business management issues, including organic agriculture. She can discuss the implications of E. coli outbreaks for California's farmers. Contact: Karen Klonsky, Agricultural and Resource Economics, (530) 752-3563, klonsky@primal.ucdavis.edu. (Note: Klonsky will not be available July 4-6.)

MAD COW DISEASE EXPERTS -- UC Davis faculty members study mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and provide educational programs for a wide variety of consumer, producer and veterinary groups. See our experts list online at: http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/sources/mad_cow.lasso.

MORE INFORMATION ONLINE -- The UC Davis Postharvest Center has produce-related videos and PDF files posted online that are useful for consumers as well as industry members. Topics range from "How to Tell if Your Fruits and Vegetables Have Gone Bad" to "Growing, Handling and Shipping California Cantaloupes." See the list at: http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/Pubs/video-library.shtml.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[As you are all well aware, air quality around the Davis and Sacramento campuses has been declining due to wildfire smoke. The air quality around the Davis campus officially reached unhealthy levels on Thursday afternoon and the local air is anticipated to remain unhealthy at least through Sunday. Everyone is advised to minimize outdoor activity and physical exertion. If you are experiencing adverse effects due to the smoke, please speak to you supervisor about the possibility of an alternative work environment.

State health officials offer the following advice:

Pay attention to local air quality reports and stay alert to health warnings related to smoke. You are encouraged to monitor the situation by checking the following Web sites:

http://www.sparetheair.com/

http://www.airquality.org/smokeimpact/


Stay indoors and take steps to keep indoor air as clean as possible. Keep your windows and doors closed. Set air conditioners on recirculate.

Use common sense. It's probably not a good time to go for a lunchtime walk, go for a bike ride or participate in outdoor recreation.

If you have asthma or other lung or heart disease, make sure you follow your doctor's directions about taking your medicines and following your asthma management plan. Call your doctor if your symptoms worsen. When smoke is heavy for a prolonged period of time, fine particles can build up indoors even though you may not be able to see them.
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<description><![CDATA[The University of California, Davis, will kick off its centennial celebration this summer at the California State Fair in Sacramento, filling a 6,000-square-foot pavilion with an exhibition titled "Dream Big."

It will showcase the campus's development from farm school to a dynamic university for the arts and sciences, recognized worldwide for education and research in agriculture, health care, the environment, alternative energy and global understanding.

"It will tell the story of a university that has evolved from 18 students to 30,000 today," said Assistant Vice Chancellor Bob Segar, who leads the centennial planning team.

The state fair runs at Cal Expo from Aug. 15 through Labor Day, Sept. 1, and the UC Davis Centennial celebration continues the next month on the Davis campus with a Fall Festival chock-full of events open to the public.

"One-hundred-year birthdays are very rare, not-to-be-missed occasions," Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef said. "Please join us in celebrating UC Davis' first century of truly astonishing achievement and service. With your help, our second century is sure to be even more remarkable than our first!"

In the university's first 100 years, nearly 200,000 men and women have become UC Davis alumni -- 100 of whom will be featured in photos at the state fair exhibition. The centennial display will show the university's great diversity, and fairgoers will be able to spin the photos around to read short biographies of the alumni's many career paths and accomplishments.

The exhibition will tell more of the UC Davis story through artifacts from university collections (artwork and a 1908 graduation dress, for example), and via fun, hands-on exhibits (like a biodigester where you can toss in food scraps and see how they are turned into energy).

"We hope people will walk out of there and say, 'Wow, I didn't know UC Davis did all that,' "Segar said.

On campus, the centennial celebration begins in earnest with the chancellor's Fall Convocation. At this year's address, Wednesday, Sept. 24, Vanderhoef plans to announce the Centennial Year of Service, during which members of the campus community will be encouraged to participate in service projects that are meaningful to them.

Then, mark your calendars for the Fall Festival, Friday through Wednesday, Oct. 10-15, celebrating UC Davis old and new; alumni, athletics and the arts; and the campus's connection to the community of Davis.

The Fall Festival will begin with the public opening and dedication, on Friday, Oct. 10, of the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science at the campus' south entry.

"You won't recognize the entry to campus when you come in during the centennial year," Segar said. Acres of vineyards will spread between Interstate 80 and the wine and food institute.

The first of two Fall Festival events at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts is set for 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10. In the center's Distinguished Speakers Series, Jeffrey Toobin, CNN legal analyst and a staff writer for The New Yorker, will address the topic "One Hundred Years: A Look Inside the Supreme Court," including key moments involving UC Davis. (Ticket information: http://www.mondaviarts.org.)

Saturday, Oct. 11, features the Golden Society Brunch for alumni who graduated 50 years ago or earlier, and then the homecoming football game against Southern Utah under the lights in the new Aggie Stadium.

The Fall Festival moves into downtown Davis on Sunday, Oct. 12, for a street fair and birthday party thrown by the Davis Chamber of Commerce and the city of Davis. "Celebrate UC Davis" is scheduled from noon to 4 p.m. along Third Street. Look for something very special at Third and C streets: 100 birthday cakes at the Farmers Market Pavilion at Central Park.

At 3 p.m. that same day at the Mondavi Center, the festival continues with the award-winning dance company Instituto Mazatlan Bellas Artes de Sacramento, presenting Corazon de Mexico, described as "a visual fairytale with vivid characters in lavishly colorful costumes flowing from one folk dance to the next in a single choreographic symphony." (Ticket information: http://www.mondaviarts.org.)

The Fall Festival concludes Wednesday, Oct. 15, on the Quad, with side-by-side showcases on the east and west halves:


	The Davis Chamber of Commerce's Day on the Quad, where city businesses introduce themselves to the student community. This annual event becomes more significant in UC Davis' centennial year because of the nascent chamber's role in convincing the state to pick Davis as the site of the University Farm in 1906.
The annual Activities Fair, where more than 150 student organizations promote themselves at the start of the new academic year.


The center of the Quad will be the center of attention at noon Oct. 15, with the unveiling of the Centennial Walk -- a reconstructed path, 12-feet wide (twice as wide as what is there now).

"Anybody who has an association with UC Davis really values the Quad," Segar said, "and this is a chance to add quality to this well-loved place."

By launching the centennial celebration at the state fair, the university is literally going back to its roots. During the 1899 state fair, Peter J. Shields, then secretary of the California State Agricultural Society, engaged in a conversation about the dairy industry -- and that conversation led to his dream of founding an agriculture school.

With a charter faculty of 16 regular instructors from UC Berkeley's College of Agriculture and 12 nonresident instructors, UC Davis launched a century of contributions to state, national and global agricultural progress.

The first residential class, in January 1909, numbered 18 -- all men, because North Hall had been designed as a men-only dormitory. (North Hall is still standing, now a home for a variety of student services; it is next to South Hall, built in 1912 as a dorm and since converted to student services, too.)

Fast forward a century to this fall: The Centennial Class that arrives on campus in September will number about 5,000, compared with the 109 men and women who attended the first courses in fall 1908 and arranged for room and board in town.

For the latest centennial news and an up-to-date calendar of events, please go to http://centennial.ucdavis.edu.]]></description>
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<title>Summer Reading From UC Davis Authors</title>
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<description><![CDATA[From physics to poetry, professors at UC Davis publish 100 or so new books every year. Many of the latest titles -- including the dozen that follow -- would enrich any summer reading list.

"A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World"

Economics professor Gregory Clark's latest work, "A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World," spent a short time at No. 17 on Amazon's bestseller list, just below the diet book "Skinny Bitch" at No. 16. For a 440-page economics treatise, that is a lofty height indeed. Clark's book earned admiring write-ups in the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Time and the New York Review of Books, among other major publications. It will change how you think about wealth disparities among nations -- and put the current U.S. economic straits into historical perspective.

"The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction"

A look back at the Great Depression can put $4-a-gallon gas in a new perspective. Eric Rauchway, professor of history, has published the only concise history of the Depression and New Deal on the market. "The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction" is part of Oxford University Press' 195-title "Very Short Introductions" series. At a highly readable 160 pages, the book tells the story of one of history's great policy revolutions. Rauchway is also the author of "Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America" and "Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America." He writes an online column for The New Republic and has contributed to Slate and The American Prospect.

"A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca"

Gas prices may keep us closer to home this summer, but we can still enjoy vicarious adventures -- like the one that Andr鳠Res鮤ez, an associate professor of history, recounts in "A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca." The critically acclaimed book tells the story of 300 conquistadores who set out from Spain in 1528 to colonize what is now Florida. Only four survived. Carolyn See of the Washington Post compared the book to "Moby Dick" and "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre." Publishers Weekly called it "a marvelous addition to the corpus of survival and adventure literature."

"Back on the Fire: Essays"

If day trips to the Sierra are part of your summer "homecationing" plans, bring along poet Gary Snyder's latest book of essays, "Back on the Fire: Essays." Inspired by the Sierra foothills where Snyder makes his home, the essays include meditations on cave art, the Maidu coyote myth, haiku, the making of families, and Allen Ginsberg's death. The slim volume also makes the case for a more balanced attitude toward land and forest preservation. Snyder, a professor emeritus of English, is one of the best-known poets of his generation. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

"Expectation Days"

Another distinguished UC Davis poet, Sandra McPherson, has published a collection of poems that speak to anyone who has gone through post-9/11 airport security, climbed a coastal cliff or lost a loved one. The book, "Expectation Days," was nominated for the 2007 Northern California Book Award in Poetry. A professor of English, McPherson is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She was featured on the Bill Moyers television series, "The Language of Life."

"The Talented Women of the Zhang Family"

As the summer Olympics focus the world's attention on Beijing, Susan Mann's latest book illuminates a part of China that has been largely invisible: the lives of Chinese women in the 19th century. "The people you are about to meet lived and died a long time ago, but they left behind a treasure: beautiful copies of their own writings in woodblock print," Mann, a professor of history, writes in the book's prologue. "They did not want to be forgotten." In the pages of "The Talented Women of the Zhang Family," Mann ensures that they will not. She is internationally known for her pioneering work on the history of women in China.

"Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture"

For scholarly insights into China in the 21st century, turn to "Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture," by Sheldon Lu, professor of comparative literature. Lu draws on Chinese literature, film, art, photography and video to document the daily lives of contemporary Chinese as they make the transition from a socialist lifestyle to the new capitalist economy.

"Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science, and Society"

No time like a Sacramento summer to think about global warming. Benjamin Orlove, a professor of environmental science and policy, has combined the perspectives of social and natural scientists from five continents as editor of the critically acclaimed new book, "Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science, and Society." "Whatever your interest in glaciers, you will find this rich, broadly ranging volume exciting," writes Jared Diamond, author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel," in one of the book's many accolades.

"Gorilla Society: Conflict, Compromise, and Cooperation Between the Sexes"

Another vanishing entity -- the gorilla -- is the subject of Alexander Harcourt and Kelly Stewart's new book, "Gorilla Society: Conflict, Compromise, and Cooperation Between the Sexes." The husband-and-wife research team -- Harcourt is a professor of anthropology, Stewart is an anthropology research associate -- has synthesized decades of ecological and behavioral research into a fascinating explanation of gorilla life. Stewart is the author of one earlier book on gorillas, and the co-author of another. She and Harcourt have done extensive fieldwork with primates in Africa.

"Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics"

In the summer drought of 2001, the federal Bureau of Reclamation outraged farmers by shutting down the headgates of the Upper Klamath Basin in southern Oregon to conserve water for endangered species. It was the first time in U.S. history that the headgates of a federal irrigation project were closed in favor of conservation. The protests, vandalism and apocalyptic rhetoric that greeted the decision are the subject of a new book by law professor Holly Doremus, "Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics." Written with a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, the book offers a comprehensive look at the events leading up to the historic federal decision. It also discusses lessons for the future of water management and conservation in the arid West.

"The Entire Predicament"

For those who would rather escape into fiction, Lucy Corin has published her first book of short stories, "The Entire Predicament." One critic, writing in the Rain Taxi Review of Books, called the collection "fiercely strange" and "vivid and sharp." "You don't read these stories," the reviewer said. "You undergo them." An assistant professor of English, Corin has published short stories in numerous journals, including Ploughshares, the Iowa Review and the Mid-American Review. Her first novel, "Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls," was published in 2004, establishing her as an original voice in contemporary avant-garde fiction. Her colleague in the English department, novelist and professor Pam Houston, wrote the introduction to "The Entire Predicament."

"Field Guide to Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions"

Butterfly watching is a time-honored summer pastime. With the help of a new book by evolution and ecology professor Arthur Shapiro, you will be able to distinguish a West Coast lady from a golden oak hairstreak. Shapiro's superbly illustrated "Field Guide to Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions" discusses and identifies more than 130 species found in this region. Written for both beginning and experienced butterfly watchers, it includes tips on photography, butterfly-friendly gardening and more. The guide is part of the popular California Natural History Guide series. Shapiro is one of the nation's best-known professional lepidopterists.]]></description>
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<title>Chemistry building reopened after spill cleanup; other campus activities continuing normally</title>
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<description><![CDATA[3 p.m. update -- Building reopened
The Chemistry Building has been reopened, although Rooms 129 and 130 are not available for use. On Tuesday, classes will return to their regularly scheduled locations.

12:10 p.m. update -- Class relocations

The following Monday classes have been relocated from the Chemistry Building following a chemical spill in the building this morning.

Courses in Chem 166

NPB 010, 10 a.m. to 11:50 a.m., to Haring 2016
MAT 021B, 12:10 p.m. to 1:50 p.m., to Hart 1130
TXC 173-001, 5:10 p.m. to 7:40 p.m., to Haring 1204


Courses in Chem 176

MAT 021c, 12:10 p.m. to 1:50 p.m., to Hart 1150
MAT 016B-003, 4:10 p.m. to 5:50 p.m., to Hart 1150

Courses in Chem 179

GEL 003, 10 a.m. to 11:40 a.m., to 1227 Haring
MCB 120L, 12:10 p.m. to 1 p.m., to Wellman 216
MIC 010, 1:10 p.m. to 2:50 p.m., to Young 198
ARE 142-001, 3:10 p.m. to 5 p.m., to Young 198

Course in Chem 194

NPB 101, 11 a.m. to 1:05 p.m., to Young 198



 11:35 a.m. update -- Patient conditions

A doctoral chemistry student and chemistry department staff member
are both in good condition after being taken to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento following a chemical spill in the Chemistry Building today.


11 a.m. update -- Relocation of classes

The Office of the University Registrar is attempting to relocate the Summer Sessions classes scheduled to meet in four classrooms affected by today's chemical spill in the Chemistry Building and its evacuation.

The office will notify instructors if their classes have been relocated.


10 a.m. -- First report 

Because of a chemical spill early this morning (Monday, June 23) in the Chemistry Building, two people were taken to a local hospital for evaluation and the building has been evacuated for several hours and perhaps all day.

No other campus activities have been affected.

UC Davis Fire Department spokesman Paul Pfotenhauer said that at about 7:30 a.m., a graduate student working in chemistry professor Philip Power's lab, Room 130, spilled more than 2 liters of an oily hazardous material named nitrobenzene.

Because nitrobenzene can cause illness if inhaled, absorbed through the skin or ingested, UC Davis emergency personnel sent the student and one other person by ambulance to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.

The student did not show any immediate symptoms of illness; the second person complained of eye irritation.

Pfotenhauer said cleaning up the spill will be a hazardous materials operation, with firefighters from the UC Davis Fire Department as well as other local departments participating. They will be wearing protective clothing and breathing apparatus and using absorbent materials.

Until the cleanup is complete, which could take all day, the Chemistry Building will remain closed.]]></description>
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<title>UC Davis Experts: Racehorse Health and Welfare</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Experts in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine are available to comment on topics of racehorse health and welfare, including Thursday's (June 19) hearing on the sport by the U.S. House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.

HOW HORSES GET HURT -- Sue Stover, director of the J.D. Wheat Veterinary Orthopedic Research Laboratory at UC Davis, testified Thursday (June 19) at a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C., about the state of thoroughbred horseracing and the welfare of thoroughbred racehorses. Stover studies the orthopedic biomechanics of racehorse injuries. She has particular expertise in analyzing racetrack injuries, called "breakdowns," that result in racehorse deaths. Stover discovered that pre-existing conditions and high-intensity training can cause catastrophic injury to racehorses. She also advocated the installation of bone-scanning instruments at Santa Anita's racetrack, which has led to early detection of injuries. More information on Thursday's House hearing: http://energycommerce.house.gov/cmte_mtgs/110-ctcp-hrg.061908.Horsera cing.shtml. Contact: Sue Stover, School of Veterinary Medicine, (530) 752-7438 office, (530) 219-5861 cell, smstover@ucdavis.edu.

DRUG TESTING POLICY -- Rick Arthur, equine medical director at the Kenneth L. Maddy Equine Analytical Chemistry Laboratory at UC Davis, and for the California Horse Racing Board, is an expert on horse racing injuries, regulation, drug testing, anabolic steroids, medications, veterinary procedures and pre-race veterinary examinations. His joint appointment to the racing board and the Maddy Laboratory involves research and development of drug-testing policies, as well as analysis of laboratory findings and industry education. Contact: Rick Arthur, School of Veterinary Medicine, (626) 241-0682, rmarthur@ucdavis.edu.

DRUG TESTING PROCEDURES -- Scott Stanley, a UC Davis associate professor of veterinary medicine, is an expert in racehorse drug testing and medications, including anabolic steroids. He oversees the activities of the Kenneth L. Maddy Equine Analytical Chemistry Laboratory at UC Davis (a program of the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory), which is the official equine drug testing laboratory for California's six permanent race courses, nine seasonal fair venues, and other performance events and locations. Stanley consults with veterinarians and regulatory agencies on the interpretation of drug-testing results. He also directs the development and implementation of new drug-testing techniques. Contact: Scott Stanley, School of Veterinary Medicine, (530) 752-8735 office and (530) 219-2631 cell.

EMERGENCY CARE AND RESCUES -- John Madigan, associate director of the Large Animal Clinic at UC Davis' William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, is an expert on emergency medicine and rescue operations for horses. He also is an expert in the health of newborn horses (foals) and in infectious diseases of horses. Madigan was instrumental in the development of the UC Davis Anderson Sling and the UC Davis Large Animal Lift, both used widely in emergency medicine and large-animal rescue. He has actively engaged in rescue operations for animals caught in natural disasters such as floods and fires, and been the driving force behind the UC Davis Veterinary Emergency Response Team, a group of volunteer faculty, staff and students who assist with animal rescue and veterinary care during disasters. Contact: John Madigan, School of Veterinary Medicine, (530) 304-1212, jemadigan@ucdavis.edu.

EXERCISE-INDUCED DISORDERS -- John Pascoe, executive associate dean of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, is an equine surgeon and an expert on a common disorder in heavily exercised racehorses. Pascoe showed that the disorder, which he named exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage, originates in the lungs and not in the nose, as had been believed for centuries. He continues to work with colleagues to understand its underlying causes. In 1998, Pascoe was elected Distinguished Practitioner to the National Academy of Practice, which limits membership to 100 active veterinarians. He is editor-in-chief of Veterinary Surgery, the journal of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons. Contact: John Pascoe, School of Veterinary Medicine, (530) 752-1324 office and (530) 304-1432 cell, jrpascoe@ucdavis.edu.

EQUINE RESEARCH AND RACETRACK VETERINARY CARE -- Greg Ferraro, director of the UC Davis Center for Equine Health, improves the health and well-being of horses through clinical practice, veterinary medical education and research. He currently directs studies by faculty researchers investigating all aspects of equine health, including physiology, sports medicine, anatomy, toxicology, drug testing and nutrition, with the overall aim of improving the standard of veterinary care for horses. As a racehorse surgeon, he pioneered the adaptation of human arthroscopic surgical techniques to horses. In 1976, Ferraro led the launch of the Southern California Equine Foundation, which, in partnership with the Dolly Green Research Foundation in Arcadia, revolutionized racetrack practice with an on-site hospital facility for use by all attending veterinarians. The model of a racetrack hospital has been emulated at racing venues throughout the world. Ferraro and the foundation's partnership also developed the Kimzey Equine Ambulance and the Kimzey Breakdown Splint, which have greatly improved emergency veterinary care for severely injured horses. Contact: Greg Ferraro, School of Veterinary Medicine, (530) 752-5433 office and (530) 304-1107 cell, glferraro@ucdavis.edu. Note: Ferraro is unavailable until Monday, June 23.]]></description>
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<title>Birdsong Expert Elected to Royal Society</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As a boy in England, Peter Marler was fascinated by wild birds and their songs and started a natural history club at his school. Six decades later, Marler, professor emeritus of neurobiology, physiology and behavior at UC Davis, has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society for his work on communication in birds and primates.

Leo Chalupa, professor and chair of the Section of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, described Marler's contributions as "stellar."

"He's the father of a large and very important field," Chalupa said. "His groundbreaking work in using the songbird as a model for learning language has had a broad influence across a wide range of fields, from neuroscience to clinical practice."

Coming from a working-class background, the young Marler did not consider an academic career. He went to University College London intending to follow a career where he could have a paying job and pursue ornithology as a hobby. After receiving his doctorate in botany from the University of London, he took a job with the Nature Conservancy, the British government agency that managed natural reserves at the time.

But Marler was still passionate about birdsong. Some songbirds show local "dialects," and Marler wanted to see if these were innate to the birds from hatching, or if -- as he suspected -- they were learned from other birds. He managed to get a fellowship at the University of Cambridge, England, to work with William (Bill) Thorpe, who had just established a field station to study birdsong.

Thorpe had just gotten access to a sonic spectrograph, a machine for visualizing and recording sound waves that was initially developed during World War II for detecting submarines.

"It was one of those stages in science where a simple piece of equipment opens up a whole new area," Marler said.

He went on to show that birds raised in the lab learned their songs from other birds -- the only example in the animal kingdom, other than humans, cetaceans and possibly bats, of cultural transmission of communications. In the process, he earned a second doctorate (zoology) from Cambridge University.

In 1957 Marler was recruited to UC Berkeley to establish the animal behavior program there. He and his wife made their way by cargo ship across the Atlantic and through the Panama Canal to California, complete with a large cage of hand-reared jackdaws, a type of small crow.

At Berkeley, Marler continued working on birdsong but also developed interests in monkey and ape communications, especially after meeting anthropologist and primate researcher Sherwood "Sherry" Washburn, who joined the Berkeley biology department at about the same time. They established a research center in the Berkeley Hills, and Marler spent a sabbatical in Uganda, recording the vocal repertoires of several species of forest monkey.

In 1966, the Marlers moved across the country to the newly organized Rockefeller University in New York, where he continued to work on both birds and primates.

One of his discoveries, with Tom Struhsaker, Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth, was that African vervet monkeys have distinct alarm calls for different kinds of predators such as eagles or snakes. This was the first known example of an animal using symbolic communication. Marler also visited Jane Goodall's study site in Tanzania to study chimpanzee calls.

There are distinct differences between bird and primate communications, Marler said. Birdsong is purely an emotional display lacking any grammar, symbolism or anything like "words," he said. "It can be very rich but it is not symbolic in any way."

Monkeys and apes do not learn their vocalizations from each other as birds do, but they do have representative and symbolic content -- they learn how and when to use different sounds to represent different things.

Discovering how behavior and symbolic language are connected to specific brain circuits will be the dominant theme of future communications research, Marler predicted.

Marler retired from Rockefeller University in 1989 and accepted a position at UC Davis, where he helped to establish the Center for Neuroscience. He retired in 1994 but still comes to work most days: He is the co-editor of a forthcoming book, "The Neuroscience of Birdsong." One of his former graduate students, Professor John Wingfield, recently joined the faculty.

He is also a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Marler joins three other UC Davis professors who are fellows of the Royal Society: John Dewey, professor of geology; David Mayne, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering; and Philip Power, professor of chemistry.

Founded in 1660 by King Charles II, the Royal Society is the British equivalent of the National Academy of Sciences. Past and current fellows include Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking.

A few days ago, Marler received a note from another fellow of the Royal Society, who recalled attending meetings of Marler's high school natural history club more than 60 years ago.

"I'm looking forward to seeing him," Marler said.]]></description>
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<title>News tip: Nitrogen Discovery Should Help Climate-Change Predictions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A team of researchers led by a first-year UC Davis faculty member has resolved a longstanding paradox in the plant world, which should lead to far more accurate predictions of global climate change.

A paper describing the research, "A unifying framework for dinitrogen fixation in the terrestrial biosphere," was published online today by the journal Nature.

The paradox centers on puzzling aspects of the nitrogen cycle in temperate and tropical forests. Defying the usual laws of supply and demand, trees capable of extracting nitrogen directly from the atmosphere (a process called nitrogen fixation) often thrive where it is readily available in the soil, but not where it is in short supply.

Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for all life on Earth, and determines how much carbon dioxide plants (and entire ecosystems) can absorb from the atmosphere, said UC Davis assistant professor Benjamin Houlton, the paper's lead author. Because carbon dioxide is the principal greenhouse gas causing global warming, any process that changes the amount of nitrogen available for plant growth will affect global temperatures.

But any serious attempt to consider the impact of nitrogen on climate change has been limited by a lack of understanding of the global pattern of nitrogen fixation, Houlton said.

The researchers found the explanation lies in the key roles played by two other factors: temperature and the abundance of another element, phosphorus.

Houlton's co-authors are top international ecologist Peter Vitousek, the Clifford G. Morrison Professor in Population and Resource Studies at Stanford University; Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology; and Yingping Wang of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO).

The research was funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, CSIRO, the Australian Greenhouse Office and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
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<title>UC Davis Strengthens Commitment to Sustainability</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UC Davis is launching a major effort to strengthen its commitment to environmental stewardship and sustainability.

Through the new Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability Initiative, a new office will coordinate universitywide efforts on sustainability, seed money will support new projects, and a new committee will advise the chancellor on sustainability.

The new office will help develop strategies to implement sustainability policies and "inspire the university community to embark on additional actions to be leaders for sustainability in higher education," according to a written proposal for the initiative.

"UC Davis is committed to caring for our environment and our resources," Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef said in announcing the new initiative. "Our sustainability efforts now have dedicated leadership, a higher profile and a broader platform."

Sid England, director of environmental planning for the Davis campus for 18 years, will lead the new office. He emphasizes that it will coordinate universitywide activities, not replace them. "Everybody has a role in helping to make us successful at sustainability."

The new office is housed within the Office of Resource Management and Planning and includes the Davis campus's existing environmental planning function, sustainability and management of the Putah Creek Riparian Reserve.

The initiative includes a $100,000 "Green Fund" to provide seed money for important initiatives.]]></description>
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<title>On Sacramento TV Tonight, Sunday: Zoos May Be Wildlife Saviors</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today's zoo veterinarian serves as both doctor and defender, as UC Davis wildlife veterinarians Ray Wack and Scott Larsen can testify. Wack and Larsen, the attending vets at the Sacramento Zoo, also serve on the faculty of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.

Wack and Larsen are featured in a new documentary airing tonight (7 p.m.) and Sunday (6 p.m.) on "Viewfinder" on Sacramento PBS affiliate KVIE-TV (Ch. 6).

Produced by the UC Davis News Service for KVIE, the program explores the important role that zoos are playing in wildlife conservation and how veterinarians and conservation experts are debating big questions about the issues:


	Are zoos safe for both animals and humans?
	Are they still places to educate and inspire?
	Or, as some activists claim, are zoos cruel and unnecessary prisons for wild creatures?


Three zoos on the West Coast offer answers. They include the San Francisco Zoo, which is still responding to last December's tiger escape when one teenage visitor was killed and his two companions injured.

Wack and Larsen discuss how their role as zoo docs -- caring for animals and helping to manage zoos and their animal populations -- is growing more challenging and complicated each year.

Joining them in the video are Mark Schwartz, a nationally recognized conservation ecologist from UC Davis; Murray Fowler, a UC Davis professor emeritus of veterinary medicine widely regarded as the father of zoo medicine; and Jane Goodall, the world's foremost authority on chimpanzees.

New Service reporter Paul Pfotenhauer and freelance videographer Ken Zukin also visit Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo to see how it has made a major commitment to field conservation.

For more information about "Captive Audience," including a Windows Media Player version of the program and video extras not aired as part of the documentary, visit http://www.ucdavis.edu.]]></description>
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<title>Google Maps Public Transit in College Town of Davis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It just got easier for people to use public transit to get around the college town of Davis, Calif. Riders of Unitrans, the student-run bus system that serves UC Davis and the city of Davis, can now use Google Transit to plan their trips.

With Unitrans' participation, Davis becomes one of about 50 cities worldwide for which Google offers public transit information over the Web. In the same way that Google Maps provides driving directions between two points, Google Transit gives people detailed transit information for travel between their starting point and destination.

"We want to make it as easy as possible for people considering public transit as a way of travel," said Anthony Palmere, assistant general manager of Unitrans.

As part of its commitment to sustainability, UC Davis encourages students and employees to use public transit, bicycles and other transportation alternatives to single-occupant vehicles. Unitrans provides about 20,000 passenger rides on a typical day.

The new service is available at http://maps.google.com/transit. "Take Public Transit" is also offered as an option when someone goes to http://maps.google.com and searches for driving directions between two points. It draws the recommended transit route on a city map and provides bus stops, schedule options and travel times.

Unitrans makes data available to Google through the Sacramento Regional Transit District as part of a regional coordination program, funded by a federal grant to the Sacramento Area Council of Governments.

Palmere said the transit recommendations provided by Google are sound for simple trips, but more complex routing may introduce some glitches. Unitrans is providing feedback to improve the computer search programs.

The Unitrans Web site at http://www.unitrans.com provides tips for using the new service. Unitrans also offers route and schedule information on its Web site, and assistance is available at (530) 752-BUSS.]]></description>
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<title>News release: Nitrogen Discovery Should Help Climate-Change Predictions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A team of researchers led by a first-year UC Davis faculty member has resolved a longstanding paradox in the plant world, which should lead to far more accurate predictions of global climate change.

A paper describing the research was published online today by the journal Nature.

The paradox centers on puzzling aspects of the nitrogen cycle in temperate and tropical forests. Defying the usual laws of supply and demand, trees capable of extracting nitrogen directly from the atmosphere (a process called nitrogen fixation) often thrive where it is readily available in the soil, but not where it is in short supply.

Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for all life on Earth, and determines how much carbon dioxide plants (and entire ecosystems) can absorb from the atmosphere, said UC Davis assistant professor Benjamin Houlton, the paper's lead author. Because carbon dioxide is the principal greenhouse gas causing global warming, any process that changes the amount of nitrogen available for plant growth will affect global temperatures.

But any serious attempt to consider the impact of nitrogen on climate change has been limited by a lack of understanding of the global pattern of nitrogen fixation, Houlton said.

"You would expect that nitrogen-fixing species would have a competitive advantage in ecosystems where nitrogen is in low supply, but not where nitrogen is abundant, because fixation is energetically very costly to an organism. And that's the way ecologists have found it works in the open ocean and in lakes," he continued.

"But in mature temperate forests, where the soils have limited amounts of nitrogen, nitrogen-fixing tree species are scarce. And in the tropical lowland forests, which are nitrogen-rich, nitrogen-fixing trees often are abundant. We asked why."

The researchers found the explanation lies in the key roles played by two other factors: temperature and the abundance of another key element, phosphorus.

Temperature, they determined, affects the activity of a nitrogen-fixing enzyme called nitrogenase. In cooler, temperate climates, more of the enzyme is needed to fix a given amount of nitrogen. This higher cost would offset the benefit of nitrogen fixation in temperate forests, despite low-nitrogen soils.

In tropical forests, it's the link between nitrogen and phosphorus that explains the abundance of nitrogen-fixing species.

"Many tropical forest soils are severely depleted in phosphorus, even where nitrogen is relatively abundant," said Houlton. "The extra nitrogen added to the soil by nitrogen-fixers helps mobilize phosphorus, making it easier for roots to absorb. That stimulates the growth of these plant species and puts them at a competitive advantage, despite the energetic cost of nitrogen fixation."

Houlton's co-authors are top international ecologist Peter Vitousek, the Clifford G. Morrison Professor in Population and Resource Studies at Stanford University; Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology; and Yingping Wang of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO).

The paper is titled "A unifying framework for dinitrogen fixation in the terrestrial biosphere." It will be published in regular editions of Nature on Thursday (June 19).

The research was funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, CSIRO, the Australian Greenhouse Office and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.]]></description>
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