Staff Advisor to Regents named

UC Irvine’s Lynda Brewer is the newly selected 2006-2007 Staff Advisor to The Regents. The two-year Staff-Advisor pilot program was initiated last year by the UC Board of Regents, with the strong endorsement of President Dynes. The program is designed to improve direct communication between UC employees and the Board and to help facilitate staff input into the Board’s deliberations and decisions. Brewer is the assistant director of capital planning at Irvine.

BERKELEY
Staff Assembly honors excellent managers
The Berkeley Staff Assembly (BSA), this year celebrating its 25^th anniversary, honored 34 stellar managers from across the campus at its annual Excellence in Management (EIM) Awards Ceremony on May 15. The theme for this year’s EIM Awards was "Celebrating Managers who Celebrate Staff." Recipients were nominated by the staff they supervise based on criteria that included working to create a diverse and inclusive workforce, supporting flexible working arrangements, fostering staff development, recognizing staff, and encouraging teamwork. Read the full story online at berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2006/05/03_management.shtml.

DAVIS
Tanzanian community benefits from research team

For the past ten years, the UCD husband-and-wife team of Professor Tim Caro and Professor Monique Borgerhoff Mulder has spent their summers, and any other time they can find, conducting research and performing community public service in remote, impoverished Tanzanian villages. In 1998, Caro, professor of wildlife, fish and conservation biology, and Borgerhoff Mulder, professor of anthropology, established a UC Davis research base in the Mpimbwe region at the village of Kibaoni. Their research and public service efforts focus on community economic, cultural, public schooling, and health care development. Read the full story online at ucdmag.ucdavis.edu/current/feature_3.html.

IRVINE
Campus police dispatcher protects campus, U.S.

As one of the UCI Police Department’s dispatchers, Sandra Bybee "is on the front line, taking emergency calls or reports of crimes," according to UCI Police Chief Al Brown. Bybee’s role as public safety lead depends on her ability to "evaluate and distribute each call where it belongs," says Brown. Bybee’s Police Department colleagues take pride not only in her effectiveness as a dispatcher, but also in her six months earlier this year serving with the Air National Guard in Saudi Arabia during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Read the full story online at today.uci.edu/Features/profile_detail.asp?key=152.

SAN FRANCISCO
Successful women scientists share stories, strategies
Two UCSF professors, Christine Guthrie, PhD, and Carol Gross, PhD, have for the past 30 years met bimonthly with 5 other high-achieving women scientists to collaborate in solving the problems of recruitment and retention that they have faced in their professional lives. The experiences of these seven women, who call their regular meetings the Group, are told in Every Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists, a book by former UC Berkeley molecular biologist Ellen Daniell, PhD. Read the full story online at pub.ucsf.edu/today/cache/feature/200605166.html.