You can now earn double rewards when you use the Southwest link on the Connexxus portal to book air travel. Learn more at this week's Connexxus travel training. Click on the headline for details.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.