Learn how to participate in the UC Oakland Partnership volunteer day of community service at the Alameda County Community Food Bank, this Wednesday, Jan. 21, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Judy Thai of ITS and her team earned recognition for saving energy by making intelligent and "cool" choices in how they use the power-eating devices in their offices.

Thanks to all of you who responded to the Link reader survey, to which 213 of you (11 percent of the UCOP community) responded with lots of helpful feedback.

If you want to catch Cal basketball with your UCOP colleagues, act fast! The deadline for tickets to the Jan. 22 Cal men's game is this Friday, Jan. 16.

Two Franklin elevators will undergo routine maintenance over the next two weeks. Maintenance will be performed on one elevator at a time.

UC is proposing extensive revisions to its Whistleblower Protection Policy, and employees can provide comments by Jan. 30.

UCOP offices will close from Wednesday, Dec. 24, through Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015. Today's issue of Link is the final issue of the year, and publication will resume on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015.

President Napolitano wraps up the most notable successes from the UCOP Efficiency Review's first 12 months, measures that have reduced costs, boosted transparency and improved OP's services.

The new position of executive director for UCOP Administrative Services, who will oversee units internal to UCOP, is scheduled to be posted today. All qualified employees are encouraged to apply.

If you haven’t yet gotten a chance to participate in OP’s drive to support the East Oakland Community Project (EOCP), you still have time. The drive has been extended to Monday, Dec. 22.

UCOP is inviting your children to come to the office on April 23, 2015, and you can participate, parent or not! (Note that brown bags have been canceled.)