ASUCD (Associated Students, #UCDavis) Excellence in Education Awards

Very proud of this.  I was a finalist in the "Excellence in Education" awards given out by the UC Davis Undergraduate group ASUCD Associated Students, University of California, Davis. And David Coil, Project Scientist in my lba was another finalist. The award for my college (College of Biological Sciences) went to Jay Rosenheim, who is a great teacher, so no shame in losing to him.

Just got back from @ASUCDofficial Excellence in Education awards - check out @davidacoil - one of the finalists pic.twitter.com/AMOztcwApx
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) June 3, 2014

Oh and here is another finalist for the @ASUCDofficial Excellence in Education awards - me - pic.twitter.com/OKwBEdRUWH
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) June 3, 2014

Some more pics from the @ASUCDofficial Excellence in Education awards https://t.co/aQaLv18u7p #ucdavis
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) June 3, 2014

 Anyway - here are some pics.

One of the ASUCD members doing introductions

Another ASUCD

David Coil getting is certificate

Hey, that's me

Jay Rosenheim getting his certificate

UC Davis Magazine ... not just tooting the #UCDavis horn ...

I have just joined an advisory group for the UC Davis Magazine and I am really happy with their new direction. They are trying to make the magazine a little less "UC Davis is awesome" and more "Here are some interesting things to think about, with a UC Davis angle". The new Fall Issue is a good example of this. There is for example a nice article by Sasha Abramsky about student involvement (or the lack thereof it). Plus there is a little video interview to go with the article. Perhaps even more "interesting" is the article on the future of higher education by Clifton Parker. Not exactly a glory piece about UC or UC Davis. Anyway ... just thought I would put this out there. Any opinions on the magazine please send them my way - the staff there seem great and really interested in feedback.

Notes on #UCDavis Citizen Microbiology Meeting #UCDCitSci

We had a meeting at UC Davis on "Citizen Microbiology" from 1/23-1/24. It was a small meeting funded via my microBEnet project which itself is supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Fundation. The meeting was held at UC Davis - participants stayed at the new Hyatt on campus. We met in the new Conference Center. Participants at the meeting were me, David Coil (post doc in my lab), Paula Olsiewski (from the Sloan Foundation), Holly Bik (post doc in my lab), Darlene Cavalier (founder of ScienceForCitizens.Net), Dan Smith from Argonne National Lab, Denneal Jamison from UC Davis, Holly Menninger from NC State, Noah Feirer from CU Boulder, Josh Neufeld from Waterloo, Jason Bobe from The Personal Genome Project, Tom Bruns form UC Berkeley, Madhu Katti from Fresno State, Chris House from Penn. State, and Patrik D'haeseleer (from Lawrence Livermore National Lab).
Below is a "Storification" I made of the tweets and links from the meeting.