At Home on the Web

collected by Richard Darsie, Webmaster for I.T. Information and Events

Editor's Note: At Home on the Web is a regular feature of the I.T. Times. If you have a Web site you would like featured in the column, send e-mail to ietpubs@ucdavis.edu.

UCD Financial Aid Office
http://faoman.ucdavis.edu/

Everything you need to know about financial aid for students attending UC Davis is presented here. The site informs us about the application process, scholarship information, student employment, and links to government loan providers.

Campus Recreation
http://www-bookstore.ucdavis.edu/CR/recreation1.html

Campus Recreation has a well-designed page where you can learn all about how to "get away from it all" without ever leaving the campus! The Craft Center, the Equestrian Center, Outdoor Adventures, the Rec Pool, and the M.U. Games Area all have a presence at this site. This site is your guide to adventure!

Science to the People
http://www-anthro.ucdavis.edu/features/stp/

Here's a site where UC Davis really gets to brag! It's a compilation of articles about research at UCD that have appeared in the Davis Enterprise, written by Kelly Stewart of the Anthropology Department to be easily understandable to the scientific layperson.

UC Davis Picnic Day
http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/picnicday/

Yes, Picnic Day now has its own home page! Come here for the schedule of events, as well as information on how you can get involved. Get the inside scoop online so you can plan your day ahead of time.

Spark
http://wwwenglish.ucdavis.edu/spark/default.html

The English Department has created this wonderful online literary review, which contains fiction and poetry by students in the graduate Creative Writing Program. The premiere issue, online now, has a special feature by famed poet Gary Snyder.

Department of Geology
http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu/

UC Davis has one of the top 25 Geology programs in the nation, and you can learn much more about it at this departmental page. In addition to faculty and course listings, you can find the latest California earthquake information and reports on this year's dramatic floods. All this, and they have their own Picnic Day page too!