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OSHA Prepares to Issue Emergency Regulations to Protect Workers from COVID-19 By Robb Mandelbaum | April 13, 2021 Mask mandates are coming down across the country, even as COVID cases are rising in most states. But the Biden administration appears poised to reinstate masking and other social distancing rules for recalcitrant governors — at least in the workplace. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is preparing to issue new short-term ...

300 people log in for two UC Davis prelims, followed by the main event See the connections between UC Davis and Cardiff faculty They reached across the ocean, 5,000 miles away, and delighted in the challenge, the congeniality and the conviviality of the final event in the Eric Conn Memorial Biochemistry Quizzes. The final, last Wednesday (March 10), not only memorialized a UC Davis plant biochemist, but offered “Zoom fatigue relief” for UC Davis undergraduate students and Cardiff University...

A friendly global rivalry between undergraduate biochemistry students at UC Davis and at University College Dublin, Ireland, is being launched in memory of plant biochemist Eric Conn (1923-2017), a UC Davis professor emeritus of molecular and cellular biology and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. To be called the “UCD vs. UCD Biochemistry Games,” it will be preceded by a preliminary game, the Eric Conn Biochemistry Quizzes, set for 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, to determine the...