Welcome David Lane, who joined UCOP's Office of Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services as systemwide deputy compliance officer.

The Efficiency Review website has been updated with nearly 200 ideas submitted by your colleagues for making UCOP more efficient and cost effective.

UCOP reveled in the holiday festivities, with good food, Christmas sweater madness and our own music talent.

Mail Processor Andre Cleveland started drawing at age 9. He loves cartoons so much that some nights, he says, he dreams in cartoon.

Register by Jan. 20 for selected UC Online Education courses, which are offered on a pilot basis at a 33 percent discount for staff and their dependents.

The Lean In series of facilitated conversations about women’s empowerment in the workplace continues Thursday, Jan. 9, 12 to 1 p.m. in 5320 Franklin.

Support Cal men's basketball. Get single or group tickets for any of their six remaining home games at Haas Pavilion.

Employees are invited to comment by Jan. 13 on UC's new Policy on Sexual Harassment, which has been revised based on President Obama's Violence Against Women Act.

Join the Lakeside Speakeasy Toastmasters, a UCOP affinity group that meets lunchtimes on Thursday, to improve your communications skills.

UCOP employees are now eligible for a 10 percent discount, the same discount available to UC Berkeley staff, on courses at UC Berkeley Extension, the campus’s continuing education branch.

Save the date! UCOP is looking for runners and volunteers to participate in the Oakland Running Festival, taking place the weekend of March 22–23, 2014.