- Author: Pamela S Kan-Rice
Chris Jakober has joined UC ANR as Director of Risk & Safety Services. In this role, Chris will lead ANR's programs and teams for Environmental Health & Safety and Risk Management, reporting to Director of Facilities Planning and Management Brian Oatman.
Chris completed his bachelor's degree in chemistry at Oklahoma State University, where he studied land application of wastewater treatment residuals for nitrogen and phosphorus runoff mitigation and an in-vitro procedure to determine bioavailability of heavy metals from ingestion of contaminated soils. In 2001, further educational pursuits brought him to California, where he completed his doctoral work at UC Davis in agricultural and environmental chemistry, measuring...
- Author: Pamela S Kan-Rice
Dear Colleagues:
Thank you for your hard work this year. Each University of California (UC) employee is critical to our success and helps us achieve our shared goals of education, research, patient care, and student support. We know that your everyday duties can be demanding, making it easy to forget certain routine, but required, tasks like submitting your timesheet or absences. While these small tasks are sometimes the most difficult to remember, they are critical to our shared success and duty as a public employer.
With that in mind, this is a reminder to all university employees who submit timesheets in local time and attendance systems to submit your time worked, absences, and/or acknowledge you have no absences to...
- Author: Pamela S Kan-Rice
As we continue to prepare for the upcoming launch of our new ServiceNow platform at UC ANR for HR and IT go-live evening of June 21, we want to provide UC ANR employees with all the resources and support needed to ensure a smooth transition.
No extra training is required, but for those who want more information, the training materials will help. We'll be adding an overview video as well once we get that recorded.
The key difference is the creation of the Employee Center, which now is a way to create and view open HR and IT tickets in one place.
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to celebrate the life of our dear friend and colleague Ryan Tompkins, UC Cooperative Extension forestry and natural resources advisor for Plumas, Sierra and Lassen counties, who passed away on May 6.
There will be a Celebration of Life for Ryan on Sunday, July 14, at the Plumas-Sierra County Fairgrounds in Quincy. The celebration program will begin at 3 p.m. with speakers and music. Cocktails will be served after the program, followed by dinner at 6 pm.
We will be joined by Ryan's friends, family members, colleagues, classmates and community members. All are welcome to...
The University of California is committed to maintaining the highest standards of conduct in the fulfillment of its education, research, public service and patient care mission. Every employee at the University plays a role in maintaining our ethical standards. The University's Whistleblower Policy provides multiple avenues for employees to bring forward concerns of potential employee misconduct. The University encourages you to report concerns about possible improper governmental activity directly to the whistleblower hotline (universityofcalifornia.edu/hotline; (800) 403-4744); or your supervisor, department head, Locally Designated Official (LDO) or other appropriate university offices or officials.
The systemwide...