Starting Monday, Jan. 5, Yolobus will add a commuter route between Woodland and Davis and a new stop on the other Woodland-Davis commuter line.

• Commuter Route 243 — New service, Monday-Friday, between the Spring Lake neighborhood and the County Fair Mall Transit Center, and the Silo Terminal. Two buses each morning, arriving on campus at 7:51 and 8:21; and two buses each evening, departing at 5:09 and 5:39.
• Commuter Route 242 — New stop at the County Fair Mall Transit Center. Monday-Friday service. One bus each morning, arriving at the Silo Terminal at 7:31 a.m. and at Cowell Boulevard and Drew Avenue at 7:40. One bus each evening, departing Cowell and Drew at 5:10 and the Silo Terminal at 5:21.

Yolobus' Route 42 remains unchanged, running seven days a week between Woodland and Sacramento, with a stop at the Memorial Union Terminal. Route 42A runs clockwise; Route 42B counterclockwise.

UC Davis employees are eligible for discounted Yolobus passes through the goClub (alternative transit).

Fall commencement this Saturday

UC Davis will celebrate the graduation of hundreds of undergraduates in a

ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday (Dec.20) in The Pavilion at the ARC.

A total of 1,060 students applied to graduate at the conclusion of the fall quarter. Here is the breakdown by college and degree type:

• Agricultural and Environmental Sciences — 227 Bachelor of Science degrees
• Biological Sciences — 183 Bachelors of Science and seven Bachelor of Arts degrees
• Engineering — 83 Bachelors of Science degrees
• Letters and Science — 461 Bachelors of Science, 88 Bachelors of Arts, and 11 Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degrees

Tickets are required for each guest except children under the age of 2 years. The ceremony will be streamed live on the Web, and a recording will be available for viewing on demand after the event.

More commencement information is available online.

Senior wins food initiative logo contest

UC Davis senior Ren Bautista is the winner of a contest in which UC asked students to create a logo for the university’s Global Food Initiative. The civil engineering major receives a $2,000 prize.

Bautista’s logo shows a head of cabbage in the soil, which also can be seen as an open book, a symbol of UC research and education — all meant to conceptualize the initiative’s goal of putting the world on a path to feed itself nutritiously and sustainably. The blue ring in the logo represents the world.

Read the complete news release.

Men's basketball to play in national TV game

The UC Davis men’s basketball team will play in a nationally televised game, in The Pavilion, for the third year in a row come Saturday, Jan. 10. The conference matchup with Long Beach State will be on ESPNU, starting at 8 p.m.

“We are excited that ESPN will return to The Pavilion and showcase UC Davis on a national stage,” head coach Jim Les said. “This is a phenomenal opportunity to represent the Big West Conference and show the country what makes this university, and program special.”

The team opened the season with a 6-0 mark for the first time in 102 years. The men are 7-1 now, about to begin a four-game road trip, with games Dec. 20, 22, 28 and 30.

Security awareness: Watch the videos

Information and Educational Technology is reminding the campus about a series of security awareness videos that faculty and staff can watch for free in under an hour.

The first video in the series discusses so-called social engineering frauds — like the “IRS” telephone scam that prompted two recent reports to campus police.

The real Internal Revenue Service says the callers, who claim to be with the IRS and are often hostile or abusive, demand immediate payment of taxes. In fact, according to the real IRS website, the IRS will first contact people by mail, not phone, if they owe taxes; never requests immediate payment over the phone; and always treats people professionally and courteously.  

Earlier this year, UC Davis bought access to the SANS Institute's "Secure the Human" training program. The Core Information Security Awareness series covercs social engineering, email and messaging, browsing and social networks; there are 11 videos in all, each running from 2 minutes 20 secind, to 5 minutes, 30 seconds.

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