President Napolitano announces the appointment of a new Efficiency Review Working Group and three new efficiencies that will be implemented in early 2015.

Check out this year's UCOP Holiday Crafts Fair, which takes place in the Franklin lobby this Thursday, Dec. 4, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and features handcrafted gifts and accessories, many made by your UCOP colleagues.

Kelly, director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and a UCSF professor emeritus, will be President Napolitano's senior advisor on innovation and entrepreneurship, effective Dec. 1.

UC’s financial education program offers financial planning workshops, conducted by Fidelity Retirement Counselor Nancy Pargot, today, Dec. 2, at both Kaiser and Franklin locations.

Don’t miss the next Women We Admire talk by UCOP Vice President of Institutional Research and Academic Planning Pamela Brown, Monday, Dec. 1, noon to 1 p.m. in Franklin Lobby 1.

If you’re interested in participating as a vendor at the Dec. 4 event, register by tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov. 26, by submitting the registration form and fee for your display.

You're invited to create a collage with whimsical food imagery and submit it to UC’s Produce Collage Contest by Nov. 30. It's all part of UCOP's updated Power of Public website.

Today's the day for OGC's pre-Thanksgiving charity bake sale, raffle and silent auction, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in and around 8112 Franklin. Proceeds go to three local charities.

Join Education Partnerships on Monday, Nov. 24, for an informal talk with Karen Wickre, editorial director of Twitter, on "Education and the Twittersphere."