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BSFO to host array of Black History Month events for all staff

From a movie screening to expert-led conversations and meditation sessions, BSFO invites all colleagues to join them for community-based events in celebration of Black History Month.


Smiling President James B. Milliken outside in a garden

Join President Milliken for breakfast in Oakland next Tuesday

Next Tuesday, Feb. 10, President Milliken invites all UCOP staff to join him in Lobby 1 of the Oakland Franklin Building for breakfast from 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. 


Cheryl Lloyd — reflections from a 30-year UC Career

Cheryl Lloyd shares reflections from her 30-year UC career

Departing Vice President of Systemwide Human Resources Cheryl Lloyd began her UC career as an undergraduate student employee.


Scientists evaluating zoomed-in medical tissue on a digital screen

How UC scientists are putting AI to the test

As UC scientists use artificial intelligence to push the boundaries of research and discovery, they're asking thoughtful questions about what this technology brings.


Asian young blind woman with headphone using computer with refreshable braille display or braille terminal a technology device for persons with visual disabilities.

Creating online content for UC? This new law applies to you.

If you create, manage or share digital content as part of your work at UC — whether it’s a website, PDF, PowerPoint, video or social media post — a new federal accessibility law will affect how you do that work.


Man and dog pose with a snow sculpture of the Olympic rings

A UC Berkeley professor and his service dog will carry the Olympic flame

University of California researcher Matteo M. Garbelotto-Benzon may make history as perhaps the first time a service dog will walk side-by-side with a person with a mobility disability carrying the Olympic flame.


Donate blood July 11 and help save three lives

It only takes about an hour to give blood, when the Bloodmobile comes to downtown Oakland.


Is that bug in your garden bugging you? Ask a UC entomologist live on Facebook

Do you have something weird going on in your vegetable garden or with your fruit trees? Maybe a strange looking green worm on your tomatoes or raggedy looking leaves on your garden eucalyptus? Curious


Show appreciation to your colleagues with a Gratitude Gram

Want to show your colleagues how much you appreciate them? Send a Gratitude Gram to any fellow UCOP staff member to express your appreciation for who they are and the contributions they make to UCOP. Pick


President Napolitano thanks UCOP staff, answers questions at Town Hall

President Napolitano provided updates on the state budget, UC’s efforts to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and its recipients, and the UCOP Restructuring Effort.


How Sally Ride shattered the ultimate glass ceiling

Thirty-five years ago, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly into space. Before blasting off aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in June 1983 she faced intense media speculation about how being a woman would affect her as