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UPDATED NEWS BRIEFS: Added Yolobus service between Woodland and campus

Starting Monday, Jan. 5, will add a commuter route between Woodland and Davis and a new stop on the other Woodland-Davis commuter line.

  • New service, Monday-Friday, between the Spring Lake neighborhood and the County Fair Mall Transit Center, and the Silo Terminal. Two buses each morning, arriving on campus at 7:51 and 8:21; and two buses each evening, departing at 5:09 and 5:39.
  • New stop at the County Fair Mall Transit Center. Monday-Friday service. One bus each morning, arriving at the Silo Terminal at 7:31 a.m. and at Cowell Boulevard and Drew Avenue at 7:40. One bus each evening, departing Cowell and Drew at 5:10 and the Silo Terminal at 5:21.

Yolobus' Route 42 remains unchanged, running seven days a week between Woodland and Sacramento, with a stop at the Memorial Union Terminal. runs clockwise; counterclockwise.

海角社区 employees are eligible for discounted Yolobus passes through the (alternative transit).

Fall commencement this Saturday

海角社区 will celebrate the graduation of hundreds of undergraduates in a

ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday (Dec.20) in The Pavilion at the ARC.

A total of 1,060 students applied to graduate at the conclusion of the fall quarter. Here is the breakdown by college and degree type:

  • Agricultural and Environmental Sciences 鈥 227 Bachelor of Science degrees
  • Biological Sciences 鈥 183 Bachelors of Science and seven Bachelor of Arts degrees
  • Engineering 鈥 83 Bachelors of Science degrees
  • Letters and Science 鈥 461 Bachelors of Science, 88 Bachelors of Arts, and 11 Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degrees

Tickets are required for each guest except children under the age of 2 years. The ceremony will be , and a recording will be available for after the event.

Senior wins food initiative logo contest

海角社区 senior Ren Bautista is the winner of a contest in which UC asked students to create a logo for the university鈥檚 Global Food Initiative. The civil engineering major receives a $2,000 prize.

Bautista鈥檚 logo shows a head of cabbage in the soil, which also can be seen as an open book, a symbol of UC research and education 鈥 all meant to conceptualize the initiative鈥檚 goal of putting the world on a path to feed itself nutritiously and sustainably. The blue ring in the logo represents the world.

Men's basketball to play in national TV game

The will play in a nationally televised game, in The Pavilion, for the third year in a row come Saturday, Jan. 10. The conference matchup with Long Beach State will be on , starting at 8 p.m.

鈥淲e are excited that ESPN will return to The Pavilion and showcase 海角社区 on a national stage,鈥 head coach Jim Les said. 鈥淭his is a phenomenal opportunity to represent the Big West Conference and show the country what makes this university, and program special.鈥

The team opened the season with a 6-0 mark for the first time in 102 years. The men are 7-1 now, about to begin a four-game road trip, with games Dec. 20, 22, 28 and 30.

Security awareness: Watch the videos

Information and Educational Technology is reminding the campus about a series of security awareness videos that faculty and staff can watch for free in under an hour.

The first video in the series discusses so-called social engineering frauds 鈥 like the 鈥淚RS鈥 telephone scam that prompted two recent reports to campus police.

The real Internal Revenue Service says the callers, who claim to be with the IRS and are often hostile or abusive, demand immediate payment of taxes. In fact, according to the real IRS website, the IRS will first contact people by mail, not phone, if they owe taxes; never requests immediate payment over the phone; and always treats people professionally and courteously.  

Earlier this year, 海角社区 bought access to the SANS Institute's "Secure the Human" training program. The covercs social engineering, email and messaging, browsing and social networks; there are 11 videos in all, each running from 2 minutes 20 secind, to 5 minutes, 30 seconds.

 

 

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Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu

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