Nancy Pelosi, Democratic leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, will launch graduation season at the University of California, Davis, on Friday with a commencement address at the School of Law, where more than 200 students will receive law degrees.

Twelve other commencement ceremonies will follow between now and June 16, during which the university will recognize some 8,000 graduates with undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees in fields ranging from nursing and veterinary medicine to humanities and agricultural sciences.

For the first time this year, degrees will also be awarded to graduates of the university's new master's of public accountancy program.

Live and on-demand webcasts of each of the commencements will be available.

Pelosi will speak at the School of Law commencement at 4 p.m. at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts... Read More

The following UC Davis faculty are available to comment on various aspects of gay marriage and other issues.

Gay and lesbian marriage and the law

Courtney Joslin, professor of law, co-authored a friend-of-the-court brief for the Supreme Court on behalf of more than 40 family and child welfare law professors in United States v. Windsor. The case involves a challenge to the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman for purposes of federal law. More information is available... Read More

The Yolo County Board of Supervisors is pleased to announce the appointment of Constance Caldwell, MD as Yolo County’s Health Officer.  Dr. Caldwell has been serving as Interim Health Officer since April 2012.

Prior to this appointment, Dr. Caldwell served as a physician for the Yolo County Health Department for the past seven years, which included being the medical consultant for the California Children's Services program. She has also served as medical consultant to Mendocino County's California Children's Services program for the past 12 years.  Prior to that, Dr. Caldwell worked for Redwood Coast Regional Center in Ukiah and was in clinical Pediatric practice in Ukiah and Oakland.  Dr. Caldwell received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco and her masters from the University of California, Berkeley.  She served her pediatric residency at Children's Hospital of San Francisco.