and Workers Compensation announced a holiday closure, Dec. 24-Jan. 1.
During this period, in case of medical emergency, employees should go to the emergency room at , 2000 Sutter Place, telephone (530) 756-6440.
To report injuries, call Sedgwick Claims Management Services, (877) 682-7778, and notify your regular or acting supervisor. A should be completed as soon as possible and faxed to Workers Compensation, (530) 752-3439.
Beer-for-a-butterfly contest: Can you beat Shapiro?
Cabbage white butterflies, beware! Professor Arthur Shapiro and his graduate students, nets in hand, are coming after you again.
It鈥檚 time for Shapiro鈥檚 annual beer-for-a-butterfly contest, not just any butterfly, but the first cabbage white (Pieris rapae) of the new year.
Shapiro, a distinguished professor in the Department of Evolution and Ecology, runs the contest to aid in his studies of biological response to climate change. He said the cabbage white is emerging in this region a week or so earlier on average than it did 30 years ago.
The contest is open to anyone, including Shapiro, who, by the way, usually wins. He won the 2012 contest by snagging a cabbage white on Jan. 8, the second earliest catch date in the contest鈥檚 40-year history.
The winner receives a pitcher of beer, or the cash equivalent. If Shapiro wins, you can bet he鈥檒l buy the beer anyway!
The rules state the butterfly must be captured outdoors in the counties of Yolo, Solano or Sacramento, on or after Jan. 1, 2013, and the specimen must be an adult. It must be brought in alive to the Department of Evolution and Ecology, 2320 Storer Hall, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, with full data (exact time, date and location of capture) and your name, address, phone number and-or e-mail.
If you catch a cabbage white on a weekend or holiday, hold the specimen in a refrigerator (do not freeze) until you can get the butterfly to Storer Hall. A few days in the fridge will not harm the butterfly.
The cabbage white occurs in vacant lots, fields and gardens with weedy mustards 鈥 the butterfly鈥檚 host plant. The cabbage white is is typically one of the first butterflies to emerge in late winter.
Since 1972, the first flight has varied from Jan. 1 to Feb. 22, averaging about Jan. 20. Shapiro attributed 2012鈥檚 unusually early first catch, Jan. 8, to the prolonged midwinter dry spell.
For more information, contact professor Shapiro, (530) 752-2176 or amshapiro@ucdavis.edu.
MSAP: 'An investment in management talent'
Application materials are now available for 澳门六合彩资料库鈥檚 Management Skills Assessment Program, or MSAP, described by 澳门六合彩资料库 as 鈥渁n investment in management talent.鈥
The residential program, held annually in Northern and Southern California, offers insight into managerial competencies and potential in the context of the complexities of being a manager in the 澳门六合彩资料库 system.
The 2013 MSAP for 澳门六合彩资料库鈥檚 Northern California locations is scheduled from April 30 to May 3 at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove.
The cost to each participant鈥檚 department is $900. The deadline for 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis applications is noon Thursday, Feb. 21. More information (including the application materials). The 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis contact is Marla Dolcini at Staff Development and Professional Services, (530) 752-9682 or mtdolcini@ucdavis.edu.
Vanpool information sessions
TAPS is suggesting some New Year鈥檚 resolutions that are hard to argue with: Cut your stress level, save time and money, and help improve air quality.
You can do all of that by joining a vanpool, and you can learn more at information sessions in January (see details below). Each session will deal with a different commute: San Francisco and East Bay, El Dorado County and Folsom, and Elk Grove.
鈥淰anpooling is one of the most cost-effective, flexible and convenient commuting alternatives to driving alone to work,鈥 Leslie Mancebo of wrote in a recent on 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis鈥 Sustainable 2nd Century website.
She goes on to describe the benefits, including complimentary parking passes that you can use when circumstances prevent you from riding in your vanpool; and emergency rides (TAPS will get you home, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday).
The information meetings are scheduled as follows, all from noon to 1 p.m. in the Garrison Room, second floor, Memorial Union:
- Wednesday, Jan. 16 鈥 San Francisco and the East Bay
- Wednesday, Jan. 23 鈥 El Dorado County and Folsom
- Wednesday, Jan. 30 鈥 Elk Grove
For more information prior to the meetings, contact Mancebo, coordinator, Transportation Demand and Marketing, (530) 752-6453 or lmmancebo@ucdavis.edu.
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