THIS IS WHO WE ARE
These Strat Comm staff members have no formal training in social media, digital coding, video shooting or editing, design, PowerPoint, Excel, budgeting, HR, employee management, marketing, branding, crisis management and, probably, six other critical strategic communications skills.
Who are the speechwriters?
This is the place where many employees visit and a majority use it to look for a new job and search for people.
What is the home site?
This unit is responsible for managing the campus YouTube account.
What is Visual Communications?
Look in the latest issue of UC Davis Magazine for this person's big feature on the plans for modernizing Shields Library.
Who is Cody Kitaura?
These two buildings were recently updated with physical external branding.
What are the Tahoe Environmental Research Center and Bodega Bay Marine Lab?
This science writer also fills the roles of photographer, graphic designer, website manager, social media planner and unresponsive faculty member wrangler.
Who is David Slipher?
This is a gathering of practitioners who meet for trainings and discussions on social media communications.
What is the Social Media Braintrust?
When taking photographs in a science lab environment, these are three items of protection that are required for subjects to wear.
What are a lab coat, protective eyewear and gloves?
The new campus photographic archive system, in place for the last few months.
What is Libris Photoshelter?
This person curates the stories in the "Trending" and "In the News" sections of the website?
Who is Dave Jones?
This staff member pioneered the first major podcast for Strat Comm.
Who is Andy Fell?
The major increases among Chicanx/Latinx admitted students continues the campus' progress towards this goal.
What is becoming an Hispanic Serving Institution?
This program makes it a snap for students and student programs to tell their stories through social media.
What is Snapchat Takeovers?
This person supports units around campus in developing creative briefs for advertising.
Who is Linda Forbes?
The Strat Comm office that is often called what, in geologic terms, is referred to as "the oldest formation of rocks underlying a particular area."
What is the "basement"?
She stated: "Our primary challenge in both communications and marketing is the lack of understanding the role and profession of nurses in the 21st century across prospective donor and lay audiences."
Who is Jenny Carrick?
This Strat Comm staffer keeps a special eye out for alumni stories.
Who is Jocelyn Anderson?
20% of the students from this school's class of 2018 will stay at UC Davis to continue their training.
What is the UC Davis School of Medicine?
These are the four admissions cycles.
What are recruitment, admit, yield and melt?
This Strat Comm unit boasts no Davis residents!
What is Visual Communications?
This person is the only member of Strategic Communications on every pillar team.
Who is Tom Watts?
Santana Diaz, former Tower Bridge Dinner and Golden 1 Center lead chef, recently joined this UC Davis entity with plans to give it a farm-to-form makeover and source all food locally within 250 miles.
What is UC Davis Health (Food and Nutrition Services)?
This team helps with buying, scheduling, staffing, and all-around wrangling.
Who is the Strat Comm Admin team?
This is the name of the College of Biological Sciences profile series that explores how faculty members got involved in research.
What is Discovering Curiosity?
Name five of the ways that members of the News and Media Relations team share news and highlight the expertise of faculty.
What are news release, WWW, tweet, pitch, media event, Dateline, podcast and blog?
This group is often called the Fab Five.
Who are the Undergraduate Admissions communications team?
This was the first UC Davis college to launch its Sitefarm site.
What is the College of Biological Sciences?
This department is in the midst of planning for a nursing strike that may affect thousands of patients and their families.
What is UC Davis Health, Public Affairs and Marketing?
This is the number/percentage of freshmen who were admitted to UC Davis in 2018.
What is 32,000 and/or 41.2%?
This small unit has 38 1/2 years of combined university service.
What is the Strat Comm Admin team?
This staff member is responsible for requesting the lowering of the campus flag.
Who is Mary Nauer?
This graduate school provides masters and doctoral programs to prepare new nurses, nurse practitioners and physician assistants as well as nurse educators researchers and leaders.
What is the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing?
This is the code that determines the style of a web page.
What is CSS?
This person often says they "just press the publish button" when actually keeping staff from embarrassing themselves publicly through improper grammar and typos.
Who is Amy Rafferty?
TOP, TAP and TAG are acronyms for these three transfer admissions resources.
What are the Transfer Opportunity Program, the Transfer Admission Planner, and the Transfer Admission Guarantee?
Last week it was announced that Griffith Harsh will be the new Chair of Neurosurgery at UC Davis Health. Dr. Harsh is married to this billionaire and former CEO of eBay and Hewlett Packard, who is also a former Republican candidate for Governor of California.
Who is Meg Whitman?
This new UC Davis leader has an interest in driving forward innovations in curriculum such as team-thinking, brings deep expertise in delivery system optimization, and has a background of serving the great community good that aligns with UC Davis' community engagement vision.
Who is David Lubarsky, Vice Chancellor for Human Health Sciences and CEO of UC Davis Health?
36% of CA Freshman 2018 applicants were from these historically underserved populations.
What are: African American, Native American, Chicanx/Latinx?
This person uses a program called EasyInsight for project reporting.
Who is Lori Arcangel Wright?
The number of countries UA recruiters traveled to in spring of 2018.
What is 15?