The three-dot column
By Susanne Rockwell
Tune in to see psychology prof Linda Acredolo talking about baby signs on Dateline NBC May 7. TV crews were sent to UC Davis in late February to film children working with researchers at the Center for Child and Family Studies and then, just two weeks ago, Linda and colleague Susan Goodwyn of Cal State U, Stanislaus, took off for the Big Apple to be interviewed by Jane Pauley....
Meeting Mother Theresa was just one of the highlights of a trip to India, Pakistan and Nepal that college relations assistant dean Mike Campbell and ag and environmental sciences dean Barbara Schneeman took last month. The two accompanied members of the Ag Leadership Program, for which UC Davis is a coordinating campus. Besides the famous Good Samaritan, the two UC Davisites also met with other VIPs, like the ambassadors of India and Pakistan. "We learned many things about the culture, politics and challenges," reports the dean. "It was quite an experience."...
You can tell police Sgt. Mike Adams is steamed up about his hobby with the Sacramento Valley Historical Railways. Adams, who coordinates the Cal Aggie Host Program for the Police Department, took his first spin as a train engineer in a 1918 Southern Pacific steam switcher March 24. The restored engine--the same one that sat out on display at the Yolo County Fairgrounds for nearly 40 years--was hooked up to a passenger car for test runs on the Yolo Shortline Railroad. Another railroad buff in the Fire Department, fire specialist Brad Lomazzi, just published Railroad Timetables, Travel Brochures & Posters, billed as "the only book focused exclusively on American
railroad paper ephemera of the 19th and 20th centuries."...
Creative penpersons Jack Hicks and Gary Snyder, director of the Art of the Wild writing workshop and the campus's Pulitzer-prize winning poet, respectively, are off April 15 to Washington, D.C., to participate in Poet Laureate Robert Hass' "Watershed: Writers, Nature and Community," an "unprecedented gathering of leading writers and poets for the Earth." It's probably not a coincidence that the conference, cosponsored by the Library of Congress and the Orion Society, ends with a big Earth Day celebration on the Washington Mall....
The hydrology faculty in Land, Air and Water Resources has started a new trend in campus advertising. To promote the newest of four undergraduate majors, hydrologic science, the department put up a blue canvas sign on Veihmeyer Hall. Not only have students "borrowed" it twice to decorate their rooms (and thoughtful police returned it), reports Diane Swindall, LAWR academic counselor, but afterward the folks at Environmental Horticulture mounted on their Old Davis Road building a similar blue announcement about a new major, environmental horticulture and urban forestry. Says department word processing specialist Lisa Brown, the sign has prompted quite a few comments and may have something to do with the number of transfers into the major....
Speaking of historical acts, the three deans at Letters and Science--Kern Holoman, Peter Rock and Barbara Metcalf--are gearing up to be the featured greeters at the college's first-ever Picnic Day
Welcome Booth Saturday, April 20.
UC Davis folks who have news to share are invited to contact Susanne Rockwell by mail at Dateline, 334 Mrak Hall; e-mail at sgrockwell@ucdavis.edu; or by phone at 752-1932.
