STUDENT NOMINATIONS: Nominations are being accepted from members of the campus community for the annual Outstanding Graduating Senior awards. Students, faculty and staff are invited to nominate candidates.

These awards publicly recognize graduating seniors for their achievements in leadership, campus and/or community service, and scholarship. The recipients will be honored at a Student Recognition Ceremony on May 29. Nomination forms are available at the Memorial Union Information Desk; Student Programs and Activities Center, 457 Memorial Union; Student Affairs, 476 Mrak Hall, and at senior-recognition.ucdavis.edu.

Nominations are due to the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, 476 Mrak Hall, by 5 p.m. March 9.

PROVOST UP FOR HAWAII JOB: Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw is one of four finalists for the chancellor's post at the University of Hawaii's flagship Manoa campus in Honolulu.

"I surely find my position here highly satisfying and rewarding, especially because I work with great folks, and UC Davis is an exceptional university," Hinshaw told Dateline. However, "Exploring intriguing opportunities when they arise is a normal part of life, and that is what I am doing."

Hinshaw, second in command at UC Davis since 2001, said UH Manoa's executive search firm contacted her about the job. Another finalist is Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, a former UC Davis administrator who went on to become founding chancellor of UC Merced. She stepped down last year and now teaches at the new university.

The UH Manoa search committee is scheduled to submit "select candidates" to the university president in March, and the president is expected to then make a hiring recommendation to the board of regents, according to a timeline posted on the university's Web site. The new chancellor would take up his or her new post in the summer of 2007.

DRIVERS: PULL OVER, STOP: Police are reminding drivers to pull over and stop during class time changes in the campus's central core. Lt. Nader Oweis said officers are stopping violators and giving them verbal warnings for now, but citations will be next.

Few vehicles are allowed in the campus core as it is; they are mainly university vehicles and outside delivery trucks, as well as Unitrans buses. All must stop during class time changes, under UC code, as a safety measure for pedestrians.

At UC Davis, class time changes run for 10 minutes before the top of the hour through 11 a.m., and for 10 minutes after the hour after 1 p.m. The midday class change runs from 11:50 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.

CHANCELLOR'S BROWN BAG: Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef invites the campus community to join him for his winter quarter brown bag discussion, scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. March 1 in the Cabernet Room at the Silo.

MORE TIME FOR W-2 OPT OUT: UC Davis employees now have until March 30 to opt out of an electronic W-2 data transmission system.

For everyone who did not opt out by Jan. 10, the campus turned over W-2 data to TALX Corp., which in turn made the data available to computer software makers like TurboTax. Such tax preparation programs can download your W-2 data from TALX directly into your tax forms.

Some UC Davis employees complained that the TALX service should have been opt-in rather than opt-out, and that employees may have overlooked the opt-out e-mails around the holidays.

UC is keeping the opt-out system in place, but giving employees more time to take action; you can opt out by going online, https://atyourserviceonline.ucop.edu. For people who opt out during the extended period, their W-2 data will be erased from the TALX database within a week.

CHILDREN'S AUTHOR TO VISIT: Awards-winning children's author Patricia McKissack will give lectures at 11 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Feb. 26 to schoolchildren, teachers and the public at the Mondavi Center. The lectures are part of the School of Education's lecture series, Words Take Wing: Honoring Diversity in Children's Literature. Tickets are available through the Mondavi Center box office at $11 for adults, and $7 for students and children 18 and under.