President Napolitano announces the appointment of a new Efficiency Review Working Group and three new efficiencies that will be implemented in early 2015.

Check out this year's UCOP Holiday Crafts Fair, which takes place in the Franklin lobby this Thursday, Dec. 4, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and features handcrafted gifts and accessories, many made by your UCOP colleagues.

Kelly, director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and a UCSF professor emeritus, will be President Napolitano's senior advisor on innovation and entrepreneurship, effective Dec. 1.

The travel clinics on UC’s travel and entertainment expense policies and reimbursement process continue this month with a session on lodging, Monday, Dec. 15, 11 a.m. to noon in 7107 Franklin.

UC’s financial education program offers financial planning workshops, conducted by Fidelity Retirement Counselor Nancy Pargot, today, Dec. 2, at both Kaiser and Franklin locations.