In this section

Quick links

Third floor Mrak Hall
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

(530) 752-1930

(Since September 2009)

Duties: News Service Director
Other UC Davis posts: Senior Public Information Representative, University Communications, 2007–09; Public information officer, UC Davis Cancer Center, 2002–2007
Background: 25 years in journalism including daily newspaper writing and editing at the San Jose Mercury News, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Daily News and freelance work for ABC 20/20, the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle, among other media outlets; taught journalism courses at the University of Southern California and San Francisco State University
Education: B.A. in Communications, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Washington

(Since November 2010)

Duties: Serves as editor and chief writer for Dateline UC Davis, faculty-staff newspaper
Other UC Davis posts: Associate editor of Dateline from 2005-2010, collaborating with editor in editing and layout duties, chief reporter
Background: A newspaper writer and editor since 1975, with a range of experience from small-town weeklies to metropolitan dailies, most recently at The Modesto Bee, where he was an assistant city editor, first full-time writing coach and a longtime copy editor; contributing editor for The Bee’s Laci Peterson coverage and author of the Scott Peterson arrest story; and copy editor for series on such topics as the birth of UC Merced and its impact on the San Joaquin Valley, class-size reduction in grade schools, poverty in the valley and domestic violence
Education: B.A. in Journalism, University of California, Berkeley

(Since 1977)

Duties: Veterinary medicine, nutrition, biotechnology and agriculture writer
Background: Six years in weekly journalism at two community newspapers in Manteca, Calif.
Education: B.A. in English from University of California, Davis

(Since 1997)

Duties: Writer for student life, K–12 outreach, campus operations and administration, emergency planning, outreach and international programs, graduate studies; editor of the award-winning Aggie Family Pack for UC Davis parents
Background: Worked since 1988 in media relations for higher education, including Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, and Vermont Law School; five years as daily newspaper reporter with the Kitchener-Waterloo Record; public affairs volunteer for Red Cross disaster services
Education: B.A. in Journalism, Ryerson University, Toronto; certificate in marketing, UC Davis Extension

(Since September 2008)

Duties: Physical and biological sciences and engineering writer
Background: Two years at a British medical communications agency, doing medical writing and communications for the pharmaceutical industry; six years as a research scientist in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Brisbane, Australia, studying malaria and other parasites; one year teaching college courses in parasitology and immunology
Education: B.Sc. in Zoology, Ph.D. in Immunology, University of Edinburgh

(Since 2011)

Duties: Environmental sciences writer covering, among other subjects, transportation, wildlife health, marine ecosystems, land conservation, water quality and energy policy
Background:12 years as an environmental reporter and editor in newspaper and magazines, including The Reno News & Review, The Daily Triplicate in Crescent City, Calif., and E, The Environmental Magazine in Norwalk, Conn.; also spent two years in the Peace Corps in Ecuador, South America, as a natural resources volunteer
Education: B.A. in Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia

(Since 2011)

Duties: Writer for business, education, humanities, social sciences and law
Background: Ten years as a print journalist covering the legal system, including at the Los Angeles Daily News where she was part of a staff that won multiple awards for coverage of the Los Angeles riots following the Rodney King beating trial; communications director for UCLA School of Law; media relations manager for the California Medical Association for nearly a decade; established Karen Nikos Consulting in 2008 and represented the California Earthquake Authority, the Association of American Law Schools and others
Education: B.A. in Communications/Journalism and Spanish, University of Redlands

(Since 2007)

Duties: Copyedits news releases, events calendar and video captions; maintains media distribution lists
Other UC Davis posts: Five years as an editorial assistant for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design; two years as an administrative assistant for the French and Italian department; 10 years as production assistant in University Communications
Background: Two years as a library researcher for Information on Demand; two years as an editorial assistant at HarperCollins Publishers in San Francisco
Education: B.A. in Ancient and Medieval History, University of California, Berkeley