UC Davis is coming back to Jeopardy! this week with an entire category of clues filmed at the Department of Viticulture and Enology at UC Davis. Here's a clue to warm you up — do you know the question to this answer?

Posted by UC Davis on Sunday, November 8, 2015

Everyone will know the answers, but Aggies might have the advantage in knowing some of the questions when Jeopardy! this week presents the second of three categories of clues recorded recently at UC Davis.

The new clues, dealing with California wine, are included in the Jeopardy! episode scheduled for Thursday (Nov. 12), the show announced. You can see Jeopardy! at 7 p.m. on Sacramento’s ABC10.

The Clue Crew recorded the wine questions in May at the Teaching and Research Winery, where manager Chik Brenneman served as technical adviser to the clue givers and the production crew.

This is probably the most visible national exposure the winery has received, Brenneman said. “It’s is a great way to get the word out, that we are a world-class wine institution,” he said.

Brenneman said he watches Jeopardy! whenever he can, and that he and other staff members might gather to watch the episode at the winery.

The School of Veterinary Medicine served as the backdrop for another set of questions, which Jeopardy! used on Oct. 21 (see one of the clues that aired on that episode).

The show recorded a set of brewing questions at the August A. Busch III Brewing and Food Science Laboratory. Jeopardy! has not announced when those questions will be used.

Earlier Dateline coverage.

Open enrollment reminder

Attention, faculty and staff: Open enrollment is open until 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24. Here are some basics for 2016:

• The medical plan lineup for next year is the same as this year’s. If you’re thinking of changing medical plans, view the Medical Plan Comparison video or use the Medical Plan Chooser.
• Enroll or re-enroll in a flexible spending account, or FSA. Learn about the Health FSA and its carryover feature and the Dependent Care FSA.
• The ARAG Legal Plan is open for enrollment.

Complete information is available on the open enrollment website. Look for the "sign-in" button for At Your Service Online, where you can make your changes.

Everybody wins in this blood drive

The other guys won in this year's Causeway Classic Blood Drive — but, make no mistake, everybody's a winner in this competition: the people who need blood and the 3,257 people who registered as donors.

California State University, Sacramento, won back the perpetual trophy by registering 1,740 people compared with UC Davis’ 1,570. Each school now has four wins in the 8-year-old event.

Sacramento-based BloodSource tallied the registrations from blood drives on both campuses (Sac State, Oct. 20-21) and UC Davis (Nov. 3-4), as well as the registrations from other BloodSource locations when people specified that they wanted their participation to count for Sac State or UC Davis.

Out of the 1,570 regsitrations for UC Davis, BloodSource collected 1,228 blood products (not everyone can complete the donation process, for a variety of reasons). In addition, 83 people joined the Be the Match Bone Marrow Registry.

Crime alert leads to arrest in robbery

UC Davis police reported an arrest Nov. 4 in a strong-arm robbery in the arboretum, and credited a campus crime alert with bringing in the tip that led officers to the suspect. And that tip came from the campus Fire Department.

Police said the robbery occurred at about 7:15 p.m. Nov. 3 on a footpath near Aggie Village, at the east end of the arboretum near downtown Davis. Investigators said the robber came up behind the woman as she walked, stealing her backpack and phone, grabbing the latter from her hand.

The crime alert with a description of the suspect went out at about 11 p.m. — sent by email to the campus community via people’s @ucdavis.edu addresses.

Tips started arriving in the morning — including one from a firefighter who called police to report seeing a man matching the suspect’s description, walking on campus. Police said they responded, determined the man to be the robbery suspect and booked him at the Yolo County Jail.

Police identified the suspect as Paul Thompson, 29, of Davis, and said he is not a UC Davis student.

Police Chief Matt Carmichael said the incident highlights the importance of campus crime alerts.

“Community members used the information from the crime alert to help lead police right to the suspect,” the chief said. “This is a prime example of police and community working together to keep our campus safe.”

‘Building Resilience Through Wellness’

Occupational Health Services announced a lunch-and-learn on the topic of “Building Resilience Through Wellness,” with Beth Cohen as the leader.

The program is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in 130 Hoagland Hall. Space is limited; RSVP by email to Stacy Brezing by this Friday (Nov. 13).

Cohen, former director of the Academic and Staff Assistance program, recently joined Occupational Health to focus on the health and well-being of staff and faculty.

“Building Resilience Through Wellness” covers these topics: methods to manage stress and overwhelm; strategies to increase health, energy and focus; creating work-life balance; and understanding thepower of priorities.

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