Feb. 23 - Leveraging instructor strengths, antibiotic resistance
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Two for 2/2/22: Did you see the double rainbows over the Student Center on Twosday? Photo by Steve Zylius / UCI
UCI ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS
#DenninInsights: ‘Leveraging Instructor Strengths’
In his newest #DenninInsights post, Michael Dennin, vice provost for teaching and learning and dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education, discusses the adoption of a strength-based perspective and growth mindset for instructor professional development and teaching practices.
Antibiotic resistance: the hidden healthcare crisis
Antibiotics have all but eliminated death from such diseases as sepsis, tuberculosis and cholera, but their overuse has led to the creation of superbugs, rendering current drugs ineffective. “Like the COVID-19 pandemic, this is a shared societal problem,” says Oladele Ogunseitan, UC Presidential Chair and UCI professor of population health and disease prevention.
Live and let sloth
Koalas, some lemurs and two-toed and three-toed sloths are roughly the same size and spend the vast majority of their time doing little else than digesting their food. When they do move, it typically happens at an exceedingly slow pace. That makes Magnus Egerstedt, the Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering, wonder: Is there anything that we, as individuals and societies, can learn from such a deliberate approach?
UC NEWS AND GENERAL NEWS
Delayed treatments will likely jolt healthcare system for years
As Southern California emerges from the omicron surge of the coronavirus, health professionals across the region are facing yet another blunt reality: COVID-19’s impacts among those with unchecked underlying conditions. Because many with serious conditions continue to avoid emergency rooms out of fear of contracting the virus, some are dying unnecessarily, physicians say.
EVENTS
The Science of Causal and Effect: From Deep Learning to Deep Understanding
Friday, 11 a.m. (sponsored by Information and Computer Sciences)
Skillup with SOAR: Mukbang Q&A with Your Favorite Professors
Friday, noon (sponsored by Student Outreach and Retention)
Global China in an Anxious Age: Global Media & Big China Stories - from Sports & Spectacles to Crackdowns
Friday, 3 p.m., and Saturday, 9:15 a.m. (sponsored by Forum for the Academy and the Public)
Visit today.uci.edu to see and submit event listings. Events of general interest will be shared in UCI Digest two days before they occur.
UCI IN THE NEWS
Note: Some news sites require subscriptions to read articles. The UCI Libraries offer free subscriptions to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Orange County Register and The Washington Post for students, faculty and staff.
Olympic Rower Duvall Hecht Pioneered Audio Books
The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 23
Subject: Duvall Hecht, founder and former coach of UCI Rowing
The dangerous way tourism is polluting Antarctica and accelerating melting
Inverse, Feb. 22
Cited: Charles Zender, professor of Earth system science and computer science and vice chair of Earth system science graduate studies
Determining if Dementia Is Uniquely Human
Discover Magazine, Feb. 22
Cited: Elizabeth Head, professor of pathology and vice chair of research, pathology
#UCICONNECTED
Darwin says, “I could have sworn I’d seen White Fang here somewhere ...” Courtesy of Twitter/@mike_yassa
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