The application period for the next staff advisor-designate to the Regents closes this Friday, March 7, 2014. The position's term runs from July 2014 through June 2016.

OP has launched a new outreach project, the UC Oakland Partnership, to strengthen ties between OP and the community and awarding scholarships to Oakland high school students.

Gina Fleming-Magit, UCOP's new medical director of UC self-insured health plans, rode her bike across the county on her own as a teenager.

As senior project engineering for the Department of the Navy, Julian Martinez spent three months on a destroyer, sleeping inside a torpedo tube when they ran out of berths.

The Staff Engagement work groups have published their final recommendations and will present one final brown bag Tuesday, Feb. 25, 12 to 1 p.m. in 512 Kaiser.

A new vendor has taken up temporary residence outside the café entrance, selling savory brioches with a variety of fillings at lunchtime daily, except for Thursdays.

Jessi Bush (right), one of two new Optum wellness specialists, will be helping Northern California UC employees, including those at UCOP, meet their wellness goals.

Creative Director Vanessa Corrêa lives with, in addition to her daughter and husband, an Australian Shepherd, a Maine Coon cat, a white rabbit and four hens.

The Efficiency Review Working Group will hold a focus group, Staying Current @UCOP, on Feb. 20. Sign up through the UC Learning Center.

Six campuses are top producers of Peace Corps volunteers this year, adding to UC's long tradition of international service that began with the creation of the Peace Corps more than 50 years ago.

UCOP's newest staff affinity group, the Asian Pacific Islander Staff Association (APISA), will hold its monthly meeting this Wednesday, Feb. 19, and you are invited.