Campus community members are invited to "A Dialogue with Robert Dynes" and performances by students and faculty in music and dance on Thursday, May 27, as Dynes makes his first visit to UC Davis since becoming UC president last October.

The free festivities run 1:30-3:15 p.m. in Mondavi Center.

Staff, faculty, students and community members will have an opportunity to meet the president and ask questions during the hourlong dialogue. Questions will be posed by members of the California Aggie editorial board from 1:30 to 2 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session with audience members from 2 to 2:30 p.m.

The "Dialogue" also will be webcast live for those who cannot attend in person. Viewers can tune in from the UC Davis home page at http://www.ucdavis.edu.

Afterward, music and dance performances will be offered by UC Davis students and faculty members, from 2:30 to 3:15 p.m.

Dynes also is scheduled to visit UC Davis Medical Center on Friday, May 28, but his activities there do not include a general meeting with faculty and staff.

The May 27-28 visit is part of the president's continuing statewide listening tour that kicked off in November. He has been meeting with alumni, students, staff, faculty, elected officials and business leaders throughout the state.