Academic Senate to meet

The Representative Assembly of the Academic Senate is scheduled to meet from 2:10 to 4 p.m. June 7 in MU II at the Memorial Union. The meeting is the last one on the assembly's list of scheduled meetings in the 2006-07 academic year. The agenda includes committee appointment for next year.

Professors for the Future

So you think you might want to be a professor? Each year, UC Davis offers a way to get your feet wet in a program called Professors for the Future. The participants, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, participate in professional development workshops and undertake projects for the benefit of the campus overall.

The 13 fellows for 2006-07 are scheduled to tell about their projects in brief talks at a year-end reception scheduled from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. June 6 in MU II at the Memorial Union.

Suzanne Barber, for example, will talk about the workshops that she led on academic integrity, and Alan Szmodis will talk about inquiry-based teaching methods. Rose Giordano came up with tips to help graduate students manage their finances, and Lucy Stewart offers advice on staying healthy amid the rigors of graduate school.

Other projects: Kurt Richter's guide to help graduate students who are returning to school after spending time in the work force, and Aarti Subramaniam's online networking resource to link graduate students with community-based research opportunities.

The other 2006-07 fellows: Rebecca Chancellor, Michael Donovan, Erin Espeland, Guido Marandella, Eva Strawbridge, Melissa Strong and Kara Thompson.

For more information: gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/pftf.

Far-out findings

A group of Hawaii and California astronomers, led by Lori Lubin of UC Davis and Roy Gal of the University of Hawaii at Manoa has mapped, for the first time, where the action is in a mega-structure in the distant universe. The results were announced May 27 at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Large galaxy clusters are typically considered the universe's metropolises, and for years many astronomers have focused their attention "downtown." However, this research shows that all the action is actually happening in the galactic suburbs.