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Report of the president: Academic Council Professoriate appointments
The following Academic Council Professoriate appointments, promotions and reappointments for the periods indicated were reviewed by the Advisory Board of the Academic Council on April 6, April 13, April 27, and May 4, 2021, and were approved by the President. Please note that while all appointments below have been approved by the president, some candidates may not have accepted offers.
Bateman, Brian, Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, effective October 15, 2021
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Gill, Denise, Associate Professor of Music, effective September 1, 2021
Langer-Osuna, Jennifer, Associate Professor of Education, effective July 1, 2021
Lassiter, Dan, Associate Professor of Linguistics, effective September 1, 2021
President Biden will announce Monday after that he’s doubling the amount of funding the U.S. government will spend helping communities prepare to withstand extreme weather events, while launching a new effort at NASA to collect climate data. While the $1 billion in preparedness funding is a fraction of what taxpayers spend each year on disasters, it underscores a broader effort to account for the risks posed by climate change, and reduce their impact.
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The Department of Water Resources should enhance groundwater protection with changes to California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
By Jeanette Howard
Jeanette Howard is the director of the freshwater science team at The Nature Conservancy, California, jeanette howard@tnc.org.
Melissa M. Rohde
Barton H. Thompson, Special to CalMatters
Barton H. Thompson is a senior fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment, and faculty director of Water in the West at Stanford University, buzzt@stanford.edu.
While California’s landmark Sustainable Groundwater Management Act promised comprehensive protection of the state’s groundwater, significant gaps remain in its coverage.