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<title>Symposium to Explore Economic Impact of Patent Reform</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Top patent law experts will explore the probable effects of patent law reform on innovation and the economy during a daylong symposium at the UC Davis School of Law. The symposium, titled "The Perfect Storm of Patent Reform?," will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, on the UC Davis campus. All panel discussions will be free and open to the public; the luncheon will be $15 for students and $25 for others. To reserve a seat, register by Oct. 29 at http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/events/fenwickwest/PerfectStormProgram.shtml.

Speakers will outline patent law developments under way in Congress, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the courts, and examine potential effects of proposed reforms on both small companies that use patent protection to attract investment and large companies concerned with inappropriate or frivolous assertions of patent rights. Panelists will include:


	Barbara Caulfield, partner, Dewey & LeBeouf, East Palo Alto
	Colleen Chien, assistant professor of law, Santa Clara University
	Mark Lemley, professor of law, Stanford University
	Doug Luftman, associate general counsel, intellectual property, Palm Inc., Sunnyvale
	Chip Lutton, chief patent counsel, Apple Inc.
	Robert Merges, professor of law and technology, UC Berkeley
	Paul R. Michel, chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
	Lynn Pasahow, partner, Fenwick & West
	Sanjay Prasad, head, enterprise software licensing, Intellectual Ventures
	Jerry Selinger, partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and former director, American Intellectual Property Law Association
	Andrew Serafini, partner, Fenwick & West
	Jay Thomas, professor of law, Georgetown University
	Stratton Sclavos, former CEO, VeriSign Inc., Mountain View (luncheon keynote speaker)


"The Perfect Storm of Patent Reform?" is the first in a five-year Technology, Entrepreneurship, Science and Law lecture series co-sponsored by the UC Davis School of Law and Fenwick & West, a law firm serving technology and life sciences clients through offices in Mountain View, San Francisco, Seattle and Boise.]]></description>
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<title>UC Davis Improves Handling of 9-1-1 Calls From Cells</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Emergency help is closer for many cell phone users who make a 9-1-1 call on the University of California, Davis, campus.

Cell sites around the Davis campus will now route wireless 9-1-1 calls to the public safety dispatch center at UC Davis, instead of to the California Highway Patrol.

The new system -- for those using wireless service providers Verizon, AT&T, Nextel and T-Mobile -- is designed to get emergency police, fire or medical assistance to callers sooner. The wireless 9-1-1 service is among other recent steps to enhance safety, security and emergency response at UC Davis.

At one time, most cell phones were mounted in vehicles, so 9-1-1 calls from cell phones throughout California were routed to the CHP's regional call centers -- sometimes miles away -- and callers could experience long delays before their call was answered and help directed to them.

"Many students and other members of our campus community use cell phones," said Annette Spicuzza, chief of the UC Davis Police Department, which is responsible for the university's public safety dispatch center. "With this wireless 9-1-1 system, we can better get emergency help to them when they're on campus."

The university police department worked with CHP and wireless phone carriers so that wireless 9-1-1 calls are routed according to the cell site receiving and transmitting the signal, and local cell site antennas are directed toward the campus dispatch center. Calls from sites that are aimed at state patrolled highways and roadways are still routed to the California Highway Patrol.

Service providers

Wireless service providers that have been tested and work with the UC Davis dispatch center are: Verizon, AT&T, Nextel and T-Mobile. Cellular customers who do not have these providers should program (530) 752-1230 into their cell phone and use it for emergency calls on the Davis campus.

Wireless call routing has proved effective, Spicuzza said, and many municipalities already have the capability. The city of Davis implemented its wireless 9-1-1 system about a year ago.

The university has its own full-service police and fire departments and has a comprehensive emergency management program. The dispatch center at the police department is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week by certified public safety dispatchers. It manages police and fire communications for the Davis campus.

To learn more about the 9-1-1 wireless program, call the UC Davis Police Department at (530) 752-1727.

About UC Davis

For 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matter to California and transform the world. Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has 31,000 students, an annual research budget that exceeds $500 million, a comprehensive health system and 13 specialized research centers.

The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and more than 100 undergraduate majors in four colleges -- Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Letters and Science -- and advanced degrees from five professional schools -- Education, Law, Management, Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine.]]></description>
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<title>Faculty Panel: Government Reaction to the Economic Crisis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Oct. 10, Friday -- UC Davis faculty members from the fields of law and economics will discuss the recent turmoil in the financial markets and the government's responses to it from noon to 1:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, in room 2011 of King Hall on the UC Davis campus. The panel discussion is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, so please arrive early.

Panelists are economics professor Peter Lindert, a specialist in economic history and international economics, and law professors Joel Dobris, a specialist in fiduciary duty, Tom Joo, an expert in corporate governance, and Evelyn Lewis, a specialist in business transactions.

The panel discussion is sponsored by the UC Davis School of Law. For more information, contact Brigid Jimenez at (530) 754-4339.]]></description>
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<title>On the Eve of the Election: Where Are We?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Oct. 28, Tuesday -- Byron Shafer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin and one of the most astute students of the coalitions that make for presidencies and Congressional majorities, will assess whether the 2008 election will show us a new electoral map and why. The talk is free and open to the public and will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. in room 2203 of the Social Sciences and Humanities Building at UC Davis. Seating is limited, so please arrive early.

The talk is sponsored by the UC Davis Center for History, Society and Culture and the UC Davis Institute of Governmental Affairs. For more information, contact Christina Siricusa at (530) 752-3046 or visit http://chsc.ucdavis.edu.]]></description>
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<title>Faculty Panel: Understanding the Financial Crisis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Oct. 17, Friday -- UC Davis faculty members from the fields of economics, management and history will share their perspectives on the current economic crisis from 12:10 p.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, in room 360 of Shields Library on the UC Davis campus. The panel discussion is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, so please arrive early.

Panelists are Brad Barber, a professor of finance at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management and director of the Center for Investor Welfare and Corporate Responsibility; Paul Bergin, associate professor of economics and a specialist in international macroeconomics; Alan Taylor, a professor of economics specializing in international economics and economic history; and Eric Rauchway, professor of history, director of the Center for History, Society and Culture and author of the 2008 book "The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction."

The panel discussion is sponsored by the UC Davis Institute of Governmental Affairs. For more information, call Mary Davis at (530) 752-5570 or visit http://www.iga.ucdavis.edu/.]]></description>
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<title>The New Deal 75 Years Later</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nov. 13, Thursday -- With comparisons between our own time and the crisis that launched the Great Depression now common, a panel of scholars will assess current knowledge about Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal on its 75th anniversary. The panel discussion will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in the University Club conference room on the UC Davis campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Panelists will include Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Kennedy, author of "Freedom From Fear" and a professor of history at Stanford University, Sarah Phillips, author of "This Land, This Nation" and a professor of history at Columbia University, and Andrew Cohen, author of "The Racketeer's Progress" and an associate professor of history at Syracuse University.

The discussion is sponsored by the UC Davis Center for History, Society and Culture and the UC Davis Institute of Governmental Affairs. For more information, contact Christina Siricusa at (530) 752-3046 or visit http://chsc.ucdavis.edu.]]></description>
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<title>UC Davis Gets an $860,000 birthday Gift from Wayne Thiebaud</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Richard L. Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collection at the University of California, Davis, has received a gift of 20 Wayne Thiebaud hand-worked prints with an estimated value of $860,000, campus officials announced today. The prints are a gift from the artist and his wife, Betty Jean, in honor of the university's centennial.

With the acquisition of the new prints, the university now has 114 works in its permanent collection by Thiebaud, one of the most important and acclaimed modern American artists and a member of the UC Davis art department faculty since 1960.

"This wonderful gift adds immeasurably to the university's fine arts collection," said Jessie Ann Owens, dean of the division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies. "It will be an invaluable resource for teaching students in both art studio and art history. Imagine the excitement of being able to study such works of art in their original."

The gallery expects to mount a public exhibit of the newly acquired prints in January 2010. Photographs of the prints can be seen at: http://www.ucdavis.edu/spotlight/1008/thiebauds_rare_gift_slideshow/. One of the prints, titled "Cakes and Pies," will be featured as one of a series of limited edition posters celebrating the UC Davis centennial.

Among the 20 prints are etchings, aquatints, linocuts and lithographs created by Thiebaud between 1964 and 2008. The artist augmented each image, using colored pencil, graphite, watercolor or charcoal, to create one-of-a-kind works of art. Thiebaud is known for this technique, which allows an artist to revisit and rework a drawing or painting in a limitless process of search and discovery.

The process enables him to forestall the "absolute resolution" of a work -- which can be "dangerously close to the art of taxidermy," he wrote in a 1992 book, "Vision and Revision." In contrast, the potential to revisit and change a work allows him to relate to it as "a living thing."

The approach offers students an opportunity for special insight. "Students can be overwhelmed and intimidated when confronted by acclaimed and perfect masterpieces," said Renny Pritikin, director of the Nelson Gallery. "What is particularly important to Wayne is for students to be able to see, at first hand, works in progress, the obvious touch of the artist's hand in continuing to find ways to augment, change, and reinvent."

Thiebaud started out as a commercial artist in the 1930s. In the past eight decades, he has established himself as one of the most important and honored artists of his generation -- although he prefers to be called a simple "painter" rather than an artist.

President Clinton awarded him the National Medal of Arts in 1994. California Gov. Gray Davis presented him with the Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts in 1991. He is an elected member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, an academician of the National Academy of Design and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a recipient of the National Arts Club's Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award, the American Academy of Design's Lifetime Achievement Award for Art, and many other prestigious prizes, including four honorary degrees.

His works are on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, the Chicago Art Institute and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among other institutions.

Thiebaud continues to teach occasional classes as an emeritus member of the UC Davis art department, and has advised the campus on plans for a proposed UC Davis Museum of Art to be built on land next to the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.

The newly acquired prints are the latest of many gifts to the university by Thiebaud and his family. In 1996, he gave 31 works on paper to the university's Fine Arts Collection, including rapidly executed sketchbook pages in pen and ink, exacting figure studies in pencil and charcoal, etchings of landscape reworked in pen and ink, and color and still-life studies in pastel, at the time valued at more than $125,000. Between 1971 and 1992, he gave the university more than 300 works by other artists, all from his private collection, including works by fellow UC Davis art professors Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest and Manuel Neri and by such other prominent artists as Franz Kline, Elaine de Kooning and Gregory Kondos.

About UC Davis

For 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matter to California and transform the world. Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has 31,000 students, an annual research budget that exceeds $500 million, a comprehensive health system and 13 specialized research centers. The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and more than 100 undergraduate majors in four colleges -- Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Letters and Science -- and advanced degrees from five professional schools: Education, Law, Management, Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine. The UC Davis School of Medicine and UC Davis Medical Center are located on the Sacramento campus near downtown.]]></description>
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<title>Fall Festival Celebrates 100 Years of UC Davis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One hundred years after the first students took up residence at the University of California, Davis, yet another class has arrived: the Centennial Class.

That calls for a celebration, one the university is calling the Centennial Fall Festival. It starts this Friday (Oct. 10) and includes an Academic Showcase, college and school open houses, Pajamarino and homecoming football, and a downtown street fair before concluding next Wednesday (Oct. 15) with the unveiling of the Centennial Walk on the Quad.

Full details of events on- and off-campus are available at http://centennial.ucdavis.edu/fall_festival.html.

"Aggie Pride is 100 years old, so come help us celebrate," said Assistant Vice Chancellor Bob Segar, extending an invitation to the campus community, alumni, and all the people of Davis and the surrounding region.

You can bet there will be birthday cake: 100 of them, in fact, at Central Park in downtown Davis during the Oct. 12 street fair called Celebrate UC Davis! The Davis Chamber of Commerce and the city of Davis are hosting the event in recognition of the historic partnership between the campus and the community.

The Centennial Fall Festival's first event is the grand opening on Oct. 10 of the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, the campus's newest academic complex.

And while the RMI harkens to UC Davis' founding as the University Farm, the Centennial Fall Festival also will emphasize the university's modern-day status as a leading institution for study in all the sciences and the humanities, too.

The Academic Showcase (Friday and Saturday, free) includes a reading by members of the creative-writing faculty, two public-health lectures related to this year's Campus Community Book Project, and a talk on UC Davis' new Landscape Heritage Plan. A full listing of showcase events and locations is available at http://centennial.ucdavis.edu/fall_festival.html.

A ticketed event at 8 p.m. Friday features an address by Supreme Court scholar and CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, appearing in the Mondavi Center's Distinguished Speakers Series. His topic: "One Hundred Years -- A Look Inside the Supreme Court," including mention of events linked to UC Davis history. Tickets: (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787, or http://www.mondaviarts.org.

Around the same time as Toobin's speech, hundreds of students are expected to turn out for Pajamarino, a tradition born on Homecoming Friday night in 1915 when pajama-clad students sneaked out of their dorms and made their way to the Davis train station to greet returning alumni.

Pajamarino, organized by the Cal Aggie Student Alumni Association, is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Amtrak depot near Second and G streets. After that comes the Aggie Pack bonfire off Garrod Drive south of the Schaal Aquatic Center, starting at about 8 p.m.

The Cal Aggie Alumni Association puts on the Golden Society Brunch from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center, welcoming all graduates from the classes of 1958 or earlier.

For Homecoming football, UC Davis takes on Southern Utah at 6 p.m. Saturday in Aggie Stadium. Tickets are available at tickets.com.

Centennial festivities move off-campus Sunday afternoon for the Celebrate UC Davis! street fair, scheduled from noon to 4 p.m. along Third Street in downtown Davis. Admission is free.

"It is fitting that our organization, which was the driving force in bringing a UC campus to Davis, is the host for this milestone celebration," said Steve Greenfield, board chair of the Davis Chamber of Commerce.

Indeed, the chamber was founded in 1905 to lobby the state Legislature to pick Davisville as the site of the University Farm, a branch of the University of California in Berkeley.

Davisville, of course, eventually became Davis, and the University Farm became UC Davis in 1959. And, along the way, enrollment grew from 18 in 1908-09 to around 30,000 today.

Davis City Council Member Lamar Heystek, who served as a senator in student government while attending UC Davis, said: "Celebrate UC Davis! will serve as a momentous and joyous reminder that Davis has long been a college town. I'm looking forward to an event that celebrates the vibrant history and longevity of our town-gown community."

Police will close Third Street for the festival, and UC Davis departments, the business community and food vendors are due to set up booths between campus and G Street.

Organizers said the festival also will include a wine and beer garden, entertainment, children's area, fashion show and an alternative-energy vehicle expo.

The festival's last day (Oct. 15) is called Centennial Day on the Quad, featuring two annual events, Chamber Day on the Quad and the Activities Faire, plus the dedication of the new Centennial Walk, a spruced-up and widened path in the same place where students walked almost 100 years ago.

Back then, students wore a path in the dirt as they made their way between the West Hall dormitory (where the Memorial Union sits today) and a classroom building where Shields Library is today.

By the early 1930s, the path had been converted to concrete, and the surrounding fields eventually became the Quad. The refurbished walkway is twice the width, at 12 feet, with a circle at the midway point and decorative granite tiles along the edges.

The walkway dedication ceremony is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m.

About the University of California, Davis
For 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matter to California and transform the world. Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has 31,000 students, an annual research budget that exceeds $500 million, a comprehensive health system and 13 specialized research centers. The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and more than 100 undergraduate majors in four colleges -- Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Letters and Science -- and advanced degrees from five professional schools -- Education, Law, Management, Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine.]]></description>
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<title>UC Davis Honors Arts Patron Barbara Jackson </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Arts patron Barbara K. Jackson has been awarded the UC Davis Medal, the highest tribute bestowed by the university. Jackson, one of two namesakes of the Mondavi Center's Barbara K. and W. Turrentine Jackson Hall, received the honor Saturday evening during the opening event of the Mondavi Center's 2008-09 season.

"As a philanthropist of extraordinary generosity and an exceptional volunteer, Barbara has had a profound effect on the cultural landscape of our region," Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef said. "By her example, Barbara challenges each of us to discover our own particular passion, to do more, give more and achieve more in its service."

The award recognizes individuals of rare accomplishment. Past recipients have included President Bill Clinton and UC Davis law professor Cruz Reynoso, the first Hispanic to serve on the California Supreme Court.

Jackson's more than 50 years of contributions to the arts in Northern California have ranged from the humble -- she once cut up her dining room curtains and stitched them into petticoats and bloomers for a Gilbert & Sullivan show at the Davis Art Center -- to the lofty. Her 2001 gift of $5 million to name the Mondavi Center's main performance hall set a record at the time as the largest gift by an individual to the arts in the Sacramento region; it was instrumental in making the Mondavi Center a reality.

Now in its seventh season, the Mondavi Center has established itself as a world-class performing arts facility and regional destination for the best in classical music, dance, distinguished speakers, jazz, theater and world music, as well as a center for education and public service.

"Barbara is passionate about all aspects of musical performance. She helped make possible an extraordinary concert hall, one which performers of the highest caliber seek out because the acoustics are so good," said Jessie Ann Owens, professor of music and dean of the Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies. "She also is deeply invested in the careers and lives of young performers. Imagine the enrichment her philanthropy makes possible -- the extraordinary musical experiences for audience members and performers alike. What a gift she has given us all!"

Jackson moved to Davis in the early 1950s with her late husband when he joined the UC Davis history department faculty. During the next five decades, she served as president of the University Farm Circle, was a charter member of what is now the Sutter Davis Hospital Auxiliary and organized the Davis chapter of the Embroiderers Guild of America. She also helped to found the Davis Theatrical Costumers Guild, a group of volunteers who designed and sewed costumes for schools and community theater groups from the 1950s through 2006, working at sewing machines set up on card tables in the dining room of Jackson's Davis home. For 10 years, Jackson was an award-winning costume designer, seamstress and wardrobe mistress for the Sacramento Opera. She is also a trustee emerita of the UC Davis Foundation and a founding member of the Friends of UC Davis Presents.

In addition to the $5 million gift to name Jackson Hall, Jackson has endowed the Barbara K. Jackson Chair in Orchestral Conducting, the Barbara K. Jackson Chair in Choral Conducting and the Barbara K. Jackson Endowed Fellowship in Student Conducting. Before her husband's death in 2000, the couple made numerous other gifts to the campus, including gifts to establish two new endowments in the Department of History: the W. Turrentine Jackson Chair in Western U.S. History and the W. Turrentine Jackson Graduate Fellowship.

Jackson's support extends to the Bay Area as well. For more than 25 years she has sponsored young professional singers through the San Francisco Opera's Merola Program. In 2001 she was honored as philanthropist of the year by the California Capital Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

About the University of California, Davis
For 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matters to California and transforms the world. Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has 31,000 students, an annual research budget that exceeds $500 million, a comprehensive health system and 13 specialized research centers. The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and more than 100 undergraduate majors in four colleges -- Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Letters and Science -- and advanced degrees from five professional schools: Education, Law, Management, Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine. The UC Davis School of Medicine and UC Davis Medical Center are located on the Sacramento campus near downtown.]]></description>
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<title>Design, Construction Team Selected for Next Phase of Robert Mondavi Institute </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A team of architects, engineers and builders has been selected to design and construct the building that will house a teaching and research winery as well as a brewery and food science laboratory for the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science at the University of California, Davis.

The newly selected team, chosen through a competitive bids process, includes BNB Norcal of San Mateo and Flad Architects of San Francisco; along with Gayner Engineering, KPW Structural Engineers, Creegan+D'Angelo, Civil Engineers and HLA Landscape Architects. BNB NorCal is a construction firm experienced in building wineries, breweries pilot plants and university facilities. Flad Architects specializes in planning and designing innovative facilities in the fields of academia, healthcare, and science and technology.

Design plans for the one-story, 32,000-square-foot building are to be submitted for approval to the UC regents in January. Construction is slated to begin in June 2009, with completion anticipated in July 2010.

This building will be located at the southwest corner of the new Robert Mondavi Institute's academic complex. On Oct. 10, UC Davis plans to host a public grand opening of the first three buildings in the complex, housing laboratories, offices and teaching facilities for the departments of Viticulture and Enology, and Food Science and Technology.

The new building will house the small-scale Teaching and Research Winery and the August A. Busch III Brewing and Food Science Laboratory, including a brewery and pilot food-processing plant for tomatoes, milk and other California food products. It will be designed to meet or exceed environmental specifications necessary for the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED-NC Gold Certification.

Funds for constructing and equipping the new building have been provided entirely by private donors, with lead gifts from the late Robert Mondavi for the Teaching and Research Winery and from the Anheuser-Busch Foundation for the August A. Busch III Brewing and Food Science Laboratory. More than 150 individuals, alumni, corporate friends and foundations have contributed to the $16.5 million budget for this phase of construction. Fundraising continues for further equipping the facility.]]></description>
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<title>Campus Crime Report for 2007 Mixed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Crimes reported in calendar year 2007 on property owned or controlled by UC Davis increased in five of nine key categories and decreased in two, according to statistics prepared in compliance with the federal Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.

The five categories where reported crimes increased were forcible and non-forcible sex offenses, robbery, burglary and arson. The categories where crime reports were reduced were aggravated assaults and motor vehicle theft. No reports of non-negligent manslaughter or negligent manslaughter were recorded.

The number of total reported sex offenses (forcible and non-forcible) increased from 68 in 2006 to 72 last year. These numbers reflect reports that were taken on campus, by police agencies that have jurisdiction adjacent to the campus, all off-campus properties and the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.

Campus Violence Prevention Program Director Jennifer Beeman said increased awareness of available services does lead to an increase in reporting.

"This increase in reported sex offenses does not necessarily mean that there has been an increase in sexual assault, domestic violence or stalking. Instead these higher numbers may reflect that the system is working and that victims feel confident enough to come forward and seek assistance," Beeman said.

The mission of the 29-year old Campus Violence Prevention Program at UC Davis is making victims feel as comfortable as possible when making such reports.

Approximately three-quarters of the reported sex offenses in 2007 were reported confidentially to the Campus Violence Prevention Program. Beeman says that the program has been fortunate to utilize funding from both campus and the federal Office on Violence Against Women to provide 24-hour victim assistance as well as consultation to those assisting victims.

UC Davis has developed a comprehensive system of innovative risk-reduction, prevention and education programs, protocols and policies, along with confidential reporting options to help students report any sex offenses. Beeman says that the most recent data predicted just fewer than 3 percent of college women become victims of rape (completed or attempted) in a given nine-month academic year.

"At first glance, the risk seems low, however, when calculated for a one-year period, the percentage translates into the disturbing figure of 35 such crimes for every 1,000 female students," said Beeman. "Sexual assault awareness means increasing public awareness of this 'silent crime.' It means asking our community to become knowledgeable about bystander interventions that may lead to eliminating sexual violence, and when it does occur to respond to survivors in a way that enables them to heal and regain control of their lives."

The number of drug arrests increased from 81 in 2006 to 119 in 2007; while liquor disciplinary actions decreased from 312 in 2006 to 269 in 2007.

The majority of the increased number of drug arrests on campus (18 in 2006 to 25 in 2007), were the result of increased patrol activity on or adjacent to the Davis campus by UC Davis police officers, noted UC Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza.

Most of the drug arrests on campus were for marijuana. Drug arrests at the medical center and properties adjacent to it in Sacramento went from 58 in 2006 to 84 last year.

Last year, UC Davis reported a decrease in aggravated assaults (17 in 2006 and 9 in 2007), which the campus police department attributes to more officers on patrol and, educating students about the Aggie Escort program. The goal of the service is to provide those on campus with an alternative to walking alone or within a small group. Those using the service are provided a ride home in a marked van or escorted on foot.

"We are happy to see the decrease and will continue to work to get it even lower in the future," said Spicuzza.

The decrease in motor vehicle thefts (38 in 2006 and 27 in 2007) is also related to beefing-up patrols in the many parking lots both on the main campus in Davis and at the medical center in Sacramento, according to Spicuzza. She said being vigilant in the parking lots most likely curtailed this crime.

UC Davis did report a rash of thefts, which are included in the burglary statistic (99 in 2006 and 122 in 2007). These types of crimes are usually "crimes of convenience," noted Spicuzza. "Educating the campus community about the importance of securing valuables, not walking alone late at night and reporting illegal behavior will help to reduce those numbers."

One hate crime was recorded in 2007. A male walking down a bike path was allegedly approach by four suspects who yelled a racial slur, and was punched. The crime was listed as a battery.

The Clery Act requires colleges and universities to report statements of security policy and statistics for the specified crimes reported for defined locations on and adjacent to their campuses, their off-campus properties, and the properties of registered student organizations. Universities and colleges report the information to the U.S. Department of Education and must also make the information and annual statistics available to current and prospective students and employees each fall.

Clery Act data for calendar year 2007 is available at the UC Davis Police Department's Web site: http://police.ucdavis.edu/clery/currentCleryStatistics.htm.

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<description><![CDATA[Horse enthusiasts from throughout the state will gather Saturday, Oct. 4, for the campus's annual Horse Day Symposium, featuring topics such as racehorse injuries, recognizing and rehabilitating neglected horses, appropriate feed, hoof problems, and financial aspects of horse ownership.

A Farrier's Workshop also will be held Sunday, Oct. 5, on campus.

The symposium and workshop are designed to provide horse owners and horseshoers with the latest information on horse health and care, with presentations given by experts from UC Davis, Cal Poly Pomona, and private organizations. The symposium presentations are intended for horse fanciers age 12 years and older.

Registration will begin Saturday at 7:15 a.m. in Freeborn Hall at UC Davis, and talks will be presented from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with a noon lunch break. Attendees will have a chance to meet with exhibitors during coffee breaks and lunch.

At 3 p.m., Horse Day participants can attend a demonstration by the San Joaquin Valley Rangers Cowboy Mounted Shooting Group or take a tour of UC Davis' William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.

The cowboy mounted shooting performance will showcase a sport that combines elements of a wild-west show with barrel racing, pole bending, reining and many other equestrian skills. These are performed while using two .45-caliber single-action revolvers, loaded with black powder blanks to shoot balloons. The demonstration will be presented in the Animal Science Horse Barn Arena.

The Sunday Farrier's Workshop will feature lectures in the morning in Meyer Hall, covering the anatomy and physiology of the foot as well as major problems such as navicular disease and laminitis. In the afternoon, attendees will participate in a wet lab at the Animal Science Horse Barn in which they will have a hands-on opportunity to trim and shoe a foot based on the horse's leg and foot anatomy.

Registration is $30 per person for the Saturday Horse Day events. The fee for the Sunday Farrier's Workshop is $150 per person for both the lecture and lab or $50 for the lecture only.

More information about the days' activities is available online at http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/events/horseday/2008/default.htm or by contacting the animal science department at (530) 752-1250.]]></description>
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