UC President Janet Napolitano was keynote speaker at the Oct. 13 American Council on Education Northern California Women’s Network Leadership Conference at the Oakland Marriott.

This Thursday, Oct. 16, at 10:16 a.m., when you hear the drill announced, you should drop to the ground, take cover under a sturdy table or desk and hold on for 60 seconds.

Undocumented UC students who qualify for in-state tuition but are ineligible for federal assistance will be able to get loans, thanks to a new law supported by UC and state legislators.

UCOP Chief Deputy General Counsel Karen Petrulakis will be the featured speaker at this week's Lunch & Learn session, 12 to 1 p.m. in Franklin Lobby 1.

Open Enrollment 2015 runs from Oct. 30 to Nov. 25, and UCOP's Benefits Office is hosting several events where you can get the information you need.

You can donate blood right here at the office when the American Red Cross bloodmobile returns to UCOP on Thursday, Oct. 16. Contact Jan Kehoe to make your appointment.

Learn how to file for travel and entertainment reimbursements at the new series of travel clinics to be offered every third Monday, beginning next week, Oct. 20.

UCOP staff can get a deal on tickets for UC Berkeley’s Golden Bears three remaining home games in Memorial Stadium, with tickets as low as $30 each.

The Wellness brown bag on domestic violence scheduled for Oct. 31has been canceled. You are encouraged to attend the Kaiser session on Monday, Oct. 20.

For the third year in a row, Staff Appreciation Week raised the bar from the previous year’s event, packing four days with fun, food, festivities and UCOP community spirit.

The 2014 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Shuji Nakamura, professor of materials and of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara, and two others.

You are invited to attend one of several workshops in October and November on Compensation Basics, which provides an overview of UCOP's compensation system.

Learn the pros and cons of scanning your documents before you hit the scan button when Records Manager Laurie Sletten returns with Scanning 101 this Wednesday.