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Q & A with Tara Brant, Manager of the Technology Services Desk

Tara Brant, manager of the Technology Service Desk, talks about the new technology on the horizon for OP employees and the biggest challenges of her job.


UC launches Project You Can

President Yudof last week announced Project You Can, a systemwide effort to raise $1 billion for student support over the next four years. That’s double the amount raised in the past five years.


OP Headlines

The California Digital Library launched a revamped eScholarship website. Learn more at a lunchtime talk on Nov. 4... The Business Resource Center (BRC) will host an open house to celebrate its one-year anniversary Nov. 18... Save the date: The UCOP holiday party will be held Dec. 16. Details to come.


UCOP partners with Oakland public schools

UCOP welcomed Dr. Anthony Smith as Oakland's new superintendent of public schools and pledged to work with him on ways to help the Oakland school district and its students.


eScholarship Lunchtime Talk, Nov. 4

The California Digital Library recently launched a revamped eScholarship website. You can learn more about the site—and how you can get started publishing on eScholarship—at a lunchtime talk on Nov. 4.


10-Second Bio: Leslie Sepuka

My name is an anglicized version of the Polish name, Szczepucha.


UC In The News

President Yudof releases white paper on federal role in higher education. The Doctors Academy marks 10 years preparing students for health science careers. UCLA study finds Internet surfing boosts brain activity in first-time users. UC Davis launches


10-Second Bio: Christopher Rivers

I performed an original play in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.


Puente: A Bridge to Opportunity

Before Miguel Hernandez got involved with the Puente Project, he was just another community college student trying to make it through San Francisco City College. Today, he is the Assistant Director of Admissions at UC Berkeley.


Women We Admire

If you’re walking by room 5320 in the Franklin building this Thursday, don’t be surprised by the number of staff spilling out into the hallway.


10-Second Bio: Teri Lee

I design pottery.


10-Second Bio: Linda Kane

I would like to help make wine.


10-Second Bio: Mae Cendana

I am the first Filipina-American elected to office in Contra Costa County.