Our monthly UC Spotlight celebrates the UC locations, teams and individual staff members who are helping to make UC a great place to work. Fiat Lux!
Individual highlights
Dennis McIver, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging program manager, UC Office of the President, and past Council of UC Staff Assemblies chair, shared his perspective on being elected president of the California College Personnel Association.
Corey Jackson, chief human resources officer, UCSF, and senior vice president of human resources, UCSF Health, sat down with Becker’s Hospital Review to highlight UCSF’s performance development programs aimed at supporting mid-level people managers in clinical settings.
Rachel Schoeppner, cleanroom manager for the Quantum Structures Facility in UC Santa Barbara’s Elings Hall, has diverted over 4,000 pounds of single-waste plastic from the waste stream through the recycling program she created for single-use gloves.
Former Triton Barbara Jung shares her career journey and vision for the future as she returns to UC San Diego as the incoming associate vice chancellor and dean of the School of Medicine.
Team and group highlights
UC Santa Barbara dining services and ITS teams partnered to create a meal swipe donations program, which makes it easy for students with a meal plan to donate up to three meals a week to classmates in need.
UC Davis Health Director of News and Media Relations Pamela Wu and Videographer Chris Nelson produced “John-John’s Journey,” a documentary about a family’s global journey to enroll their toddler in a clinical trial for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
The UC AI Council and UC Chief Information Officer Council brought together UC leaders at UCLA to discuss initiatives, opportunities and challenges related to artificial intelligence at UC.
UCPath hosted a successful toy drive on behalf of Walden Family Services, a local organization serving foster youth and families.
UCLA librarians are using their unique skills to help locate the hardest-to-find answers among the world’s publications, lending their expertise to research projects, clinicians, students and patients.
Clínica Tepati — a free clinic in Sacramento affiliated with the UC Davis School of Medicine — celebrated 50 years of serving local residents in need.
UC Santa Cruz Parking and Transportation is partnering with campus police on a new initiative to enhance safety on campus pathways and roads.
The UC Riverside School of Medicine was chosen to host the 41st Annual Latino Medical Student Association-West Regional Conference, the theme of which will be “Cultivando Comunidad: Seeds of Justice in Healthcare.”
Rankings and ratings
Becker’s Hospital Review has recognized UCSF as one of the top-recommended hospitals in California. The ranking is based on Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems data, as compiled by the U.S Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
UC Health medical centers at UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC San Diego and UCSF were recognized in the latest Women’s Choice Award rankings of Best Hospitals in the U.S.
Submit your achievements!
UC Spotlight honors workplaces, teams and individual staff members that make UC a great place to work. To send a recognition or achievement for consideration, email the relevant URL to ucnetwork@universityofcalifornia.edu. Please note that UC Spotlight is intended to reflect staff-specific achievements; to that end, we do not accept recognitions that are student, faculty or alumni-focused. Submissions are chosen for publication at the editor’s discretion. Funding and promotion/hiring announcements are not appropriate for this feature.