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July CreekSpeak: A Tale of Two Elements: Selenium and Mercury in CA Coastal Mountain Watersheds

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CreekSpeak, Putah Creek Council’s six-month series of community talks about the nature, culture, and history of our region, begins on Thursday, July 16th with a presentation discussing how geology impacts water chemistry in Putah and Cache Creek watersheds. California has a complex geology that has important implications on the chemistry of the Putah and Cache […]

$5

UC Davis’ Creative Writing Series: Reading by Zinzi Clemmons

UC Davis' English department’s Creative Writing Series is expanding beyond just visiting writers to include our own graduate students, faculty, and their interdisciplinary collaborations that explore the intersection of writing, music and art. Oct. 6: Zinzi Clemmons, whose debut novel "What We Lose" is told in intimate vignettes including blogposts, photos, hand-drawn charts and hip-hop […]

Art Studio Visiting Artists Lecture: LaToya Ruby Frazier

Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier will launch UC Davis' College of Letters and Science's "Art Studio Visiting Artists" Lecture series on Oct. 8. A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, Frazier’s photographs reveal the impact of systemic problems – from racism to deindustrialization to environmental degradation – on individual bodies, relationships and spaces. In 2016, she spent five months […]

UC Davis’ Creative Writing Series: Reading by Ariana Reines

UC Davis' English department’s Creative Writing Series is expanding beyond just visiting writers to include our own graduate students, faculty, and their interdisciplinary collaborations that explore the intersection of writing, music and art. Oct. 13: Ariana Reines, a poet, playwright, performance artist and translator. Online event links and times will be shared soon in October.

UC Davis’ Creative Writing Series: Reading by Claudia Rankine

UC Davis' English department’s Creative Writing Series is expanding beyond just visiting writers to include our own graduate students, faculty, and their interdisciplinary collaborations that explore the intersection of writing, music and art. Nov. 4: The Creative Writing Program, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art […]

July CreekSpeak: A Tale of Two Elements: Selenium and Mercury in CA Coastal Mountain Watersheds

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CreekSpeak, Putah Creek Council’s six-month series of community talks about the nature, culture, and history of our region, begins on Thursday, July 16th with a presentation discussing how geology impacts water chemistry in Putah and Cache Creek watersheds. California has a complex geology that has important implications on the chemistry of the Putah and Cache […]

$5

Poetry Night: Brad Buchanan, Indigo Moor, and Rhony Bhopla

Poetry Night via ZOOM! Join us on October 15th, Virgil’s birthday, for a reading by Brad Buchanan, Indigo Moor, and Rhony Bhopla. To participate, visit https://ucdavisdss.zoom.us/my/andyojones at 8 PM, or a few minutes before if you wish to chat with the host and the other attendees. The Poetry Night Reading Series, taking place on the first […]

Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists

A conversation and book launch with Susie Kantor, associate curator, Manetti Shrem Museum; Bernard Lumpkin, art collector; Matt Wycoff, curator of the Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art; and Antwaun Sargent, editor of Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists, which draws from the Lumpkin-Boccuzzi collection. Register here: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y0J0PtkwTx2K1V0HQi96rA

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Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna

Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna to Speak More details here. * Oct. 30, 10:30 a.m. — Jennifer Doudna, the 2020 Nobel laureate in chemistry, will speak about her work on CRISPR and its intersections with COVID-19 at the upcoming Distinguished Speaker Series in Research and Innovation. The free, online event, co-organized by the UC Davis Office […]

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