‘Good News for Primary Care?’

A Policy Watch Seminar next week is all about the policy that dominated the headlines for months.

The speaker is Richard R. Kravitz, professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, and his topic is: “The Realities of Health Care Reform — Good News for Primary Care?”

The Institute of Governmental Affairs is sponsoring the talk, set for 12:10 p.m. May 5 in the IGA Reading Room, 360 Shields Library.

Climate action with flowers, trees

“Growing a Greener Community” is the topic for the Davis community’s next climate action forum.

Organizers with the Valley Action Climate Center and the city of Davis said the speakers, including Ellen Zagory, director of horticulture for the UC Davis Arboretum, and Greg McPherson of the U.S. Forest Service, will discuss urban forestry, community-based agriculture and low-impact landscaping as ways to reduce our carbon footprint.

The meeting is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. May 5 in the Community Chamber at City Hall, 23 Russell Blvd.

Reversing the decline of public higher education

The Cultural Studies Graduate Group announced a talk titled “The End of the Public University — and the Beginning of the Next,” by Christopher Newfield, a professor of English at UC Santa Barbara.

The organizers said Newfield will look at the contradictions in the U.S. funding model for higher education, discuss two major symptoms (reduced affordability for students, and impoverished social and cultural disciplines) and suggest how the decline of public higher education can be reversed.

The talk is set for 3 p.m. May 6 in the King Lounge, Memorial Union.

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