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THE DOWNLOAD: See What Students Are Up to on TikTok

A group of local doctors — physicians who live in Davis but work in the Bay Area — collaborated to film a pro-vaccination video set to a tune that will sound familiar to fans of the musical Hamilton.

The video, “My Shot,” was filmed partly in front of Meyer Hall.

TikTok ‘for students, by students’

ϲϿ Davis is going where the students are — and right now, that's the social media video app TikTok. , but it won't be a place for announcements or institutional news.

“This channel will be for students, by students (with minimal staff supervision),” said Sallie Poggi, director of social media in the Office of Strategic Communications. “Our students will be curating and reposting user-generated content about ϲϿ Davis, ϲϿ Davis life, and #ϲϿDavisThings (an existing hashtag that has some good content).”

She said the account’s goal is to “share the student perspective of living, playing and studying at ϲϿ Davis.” , below, made a point of mentioning the student-led approach:

Oh moo...oh moo...oh moo moo moo moo moooooo.

Sketching remotely

Staff member Pete Scully is continuing to sketch campus life and scenery, even when they exist only on Zoom.

Reddit Ask Me Anything today (March 16)

Sociologist Robert Faris’ most recent research on teen bullying , and the faculty member is heading to that website today to dig deeper into his research. He’ll be answering questions from users in an “Ask Me Anything” format from noon until 3 p.m., and the responses will remain visible after that.

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Cody Kitaura, News and Media Relations specialist, 530-752-1932, kitaura@ucdavis.edu.

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