The reopening of the campus post office continues to be delayed by a computer problem.
“We’re waiting for word from the ‘big’ post office people,” said Janice Corbett, business manager of ASUCD.
The post office moved out of the Memorial Union’s east wing last month to make space for the bookstore while it undergoes renovation. The post office is in temporary quarters in a trailer next to Wickson Hall.
While moving the office’s computers and setting them up, Corbett said, Postal Service workers discovered that one of the computers needed to be repaired. So, the campus post office sits idle until the computer is returned.
Campus Copies moved into the other half of the trailer and is open for business. The nearest post office to campus is downtown, at Third and D streets.
Anthem offers ID repair, credit monitoring
In a Feb. 13 update on the Anthem data breach, UCnet reported that the insurer is offering identity repair assistance and credit monitoring services to members and certain former members, those who enrolled in 2004 or later.
Affected members should access the services via AnthemFacts.com or AnthemInforma.com, the latter for Spanish-speaking members. The services are free for 24 months.
UC students, faculty, staff and retirees, as well as their dependents, are among the 80 million Anthem members and former members whose data is potentially at risk because of the cyber attack.
Starting this week (Feb. 16), according to the UCnet update, members may receive an email from Anthem regarding the identity repair and credit monitoring services and how to access them. Be sure to use the AnthemFacts.com and AnthemInforma.com websites!
And beware phishing scam emails that may try to get you to click on other links. One such scam has already been identified; the email, complete with the Anthem logo, includes an offer to sign up for a year of credit card protection. You should also beware of scam phone calls. Remember: Always go directly to AnthemFacts.com or AnthemInforma.com for information.
Anthem will send letters to members in the coming weeks, but members need not wait for the letters to begin using the identity repair assistance and credit monitoring services.
In TechNews: UC Davis’ top cyber security and privacy officers offer advice on what you can do to help keep your data private.
Personal protective equipment IOU deadline: Feb. 27
Attention lab personnel who received IOUs during the UC Office of the President-sponsored distribution of personal protective equipment last February:
If your IOU has not been fulfilled, you need to make an inquiry by 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, to receive your equipment at no charge.
More than 6,000 lab workers participated in the campuswide distribution last year. And while most got what they needed, other people received IOUs, owing to depleted supplies.
Environmental Health and Safety has been working with vendors since then to fulfill the IOUs.
A number of IOUs remain unfulfilled, but the project is coming to an end — so all inquiries made after Feb. 27 will be subject to normal PPE services provided by Vet Med Central Services, including recharging for the cost of the PPE.
How to respond: Send your IOU paperwork to Steve Ball by email (sdball@ucdavis.edu) by 5 p.m. Feb. 27. EH&S will then work with Vet Med Central Services on your behalf to ensure that your IOU is fulfilled at no cost.
Apartment vacancy rate dips, rents static or up slightly
The city of Davis apartment vacancy rate dropped from the fall of 2013 to the fall of 2014, and rents were static or rose slightly during the same period, according to data released today (Feb. 17) from a survey commissioned by Student Housing.
The annual survey, now in its 39th year, is designed to provide the campus and the Davis community with information for planning.
According to the latest survey, 24 apartments (0.3 percent) of 8,274 leased by unit were vacant, compared with 160 apartments (1.9 percent) of the 8,206 units in the 2013 survey.
In housing units that are rented by the bed, the 2014 survey found 35 vacancies (1.3 percent) out of 2,800 beds (in 898 units), compared with 81 vacancies (3.5 percent) out of 2,302 beds in 818 units in 2013.
Read more, including rent data.
UCDHS designated a lung cancer screening center
The UC Davis Health System has been endorsed by the American College of Radiology as a designated lung cancer screening center, the only one of its kind in the greater Sacramento area.
The designation means that UC Davis has complied with stringent quality and safety requirements for its computed tomography, or CT, scanning practices, and confirms that UC Davis meets the required radiation-dose standards.
"This designation offers patients the security of an external review process to ensure that such exams are performed at the highest level of quality and safety," said Friedrich D. Knollmann, professor of clinical radiology in the Department of Radiology.
The designation follows a decision by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to recommend CT screening for individuals deemed at high risk for developing lung cancer. Those include men and women who have smoked more than a pack a day for 30 years or two packs a day for 15 years. The screening is limited to individuals over age 55 and up to 77 or 80 depending on the individual’s insurance.
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