Academic Federation Fall 2004 Newsletter

 

Mark your calendar!

The Academic Federation is having a Welcome Reception in the Voorhies Courtyard on Thursday, September 30th, 4-6 pm.

The event is a chance to meet other members of the Academic Federation and to get information about the Federation.   Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef, Vice Provost for Academic Personnel Barbara Horwitz and the Academic Federation Executive Council will be in attendance.  Light refreshments will be served.

Meyer Award Ceremony

The Meyer Award Ceremony will be held on 17 November, from 6-8 in the AGR Room of the Buehler Alumni and Visitors' Center.  This year's recipient is Frank G. Zalom, Specialist in Cooperative Extension in the Department of Etymology.

Invitations will be sent in early October.
 
Recipients of the Academic Federation's Teaching and Research Awards for 2004

William Reisen, who has an international reputation for his work on mosquitoes and disease, won the Academic Federation Award for Excellence in Research.  He is a researcher in the UC Davis Center for Vectorborne Diseases and heads the Bakersfield field station. 

Dorothy Fraser, coordinator of the UC Davis Family Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Program's Fresno Teaching Center, and Jared Haynes, of the University Writing Program, shared the Academic Federation Award for Excellence in Teaching. 

The recipients were honored by the Chancellor and Federation leadership at a reception at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center on 20 May.

For more information, go to http://www.dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.lasso?id=7801

Membership of the Academic Federation's Executive Council

AF Chair: Cathi VandeVoort, Primate Research Center
AF Vice Chair:  Michael Lawler, University Extension
AF Secretary:  Kathleen Ward, Linguistics

Committee on Committees:
Barbara Goldman (Chair) School of Education
Sue Williams, Intercollegiate Athletics
Prabhakara Choudary, CNS/MED: Psychiatry
Sandy Simpson, Intercollegiate Athletics
Sham Goyal, Agronomy & Range Science
Gary Goodman, University Writing Program
Steve Anderson, School of Medicine: Human Physiology
John Stenzel, University Writing Program

Academic Freedom (Chair) Elisabeth McKechnie, Law Library
Admin Series Personnel (Chair) Patrick McGuire, Genetic Resources Conservation Program
Affirmative Action & Diversity (Chair) Diana King, General Library
Communications (Chair) Kenneth Firestein, General Library
Educational Affairs (Chair) Aliki Dragona, English
Joint Personnel (Chair) Sarah Roeske, Geology
Personnel (Chair) Anna Kato, School of Education
Planning & Budget (Chair) Peter Green, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professional Development (Chair) Norma Lopez-Burton, Spanish & Classics
Public Affairs (Chair) Susan Brooks, University Extension
Research (Chair) Laura Van Winkle, VM: Anatomy/Physiology and Cell Biology
Rules and Elections (Chair) Patsy Inouye, General Library

In Memoriam:  Michael Guinan

Michael Guinan, lecturer in anatomy and physiology and a past winner of the Academic Federation's Teaching Award, from melanoma on 6 July.  He was 46. For more information, see
http://www.dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.lasso?id=7883

Some Application Dates - Watch for exact dates!

Applications for Professional Development Awards: due in Fall Quarter
Applications for Travel Grant Awards: deadline - November 15, 2004
Nominations for the Federation Teaching Award:  due in Winter Quarter
Nominations for the Federation Research Award:  due in Winter Quarter
Nominations for Meyer Award:  due in Spring Quarter