You are invited! Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the UC Natural Reserve System when NRS staff cuts birthday cake in the Franklin lobby 12 to 1 p.m., this Thursday, Jan. 22.

If you use Sutter providers and are enrolled in the Blue Shield Health Savings Plan, Core Medical or UC Care, find out how the Blue Shield/Sutter Health contract negotiations may affect you.

Compliance professionals from UCOP and all UC locations will gather Feb. 4–6, 2015, for the 2015 UC Compliance Symposium at the Hotel Irvine Jamboree Center in Irvine, Calif.

Watch UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner explore the concept of “survival of the fittest” and delve into Darwin’s idea that sympathy is one of the strongest human instincts, sometimes stronger than self-interest. Keltner is featured

Did you know that UC has a travel insurance program that offers convenient coverage and competitive rates for staff personal travel outside the United States?

UC is proposing revisions to Staff Policy 30, Compensation, which applies to staff in the professional and support staff and manager and senior professionals groups.

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.

The Regents last week approved a plan for low, predictable tuition that, with modest state funds, would allow UC to enroll more California students, maintain the university's strong financial aid program and invest in educational quality.