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Your UC Retirement Benefits: Putting the Pieces Together
The announcement in February that contributions to the UC Retirement Plan will restart in April 2010 provides an opportunity for a primer on the pension and retirement savings plans available to UC employees.

This article explains some often-used acronyms and the elements of the retirement program for UC employees that together create your retirement picture.
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Can I Use My Retirement Savings Now?
In the current economic climate, some UC employees are looking at their Retirement Savings Program accounts and wondering whether they can use that money to help them address pressing financial problems. Gary Schlimgen, Director of Retirement Programs Policy, including policy related to the UC Retirement Plan and the UC Retirement Savings Program, recently answered questions about employees' ability to use these retirement accounts while currently employed at UC.
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Davis
Driving Climate Solutions on a Global Scale
Our passion for driving what we want, where and when we want, has driven us to the cliff's edge: Now we must sharply reduce our use of oil-based auto fuels, or face disastrous climate changes. UC Davis transportation expert Daniel Sperling has a vision of how we can make that transformation and what it will require — revolutionary new cars, fuels and personal behavior — and he is being heard around the world by leaders in government, industry, science, human welfare and conservation. View a video clip of Sperling's comments on global climate change.
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Irvine
Directing Medical Theater
In her own way, Sue Ahearn runs a theater group, but she'll never make it on Broadway. Her actors don't recite Shakespeare. Instead, they cough with the flu, moan with a bad headache, double over with stomach pain or act out any of a dozen other ailments doctors treat regularly. Ahearn directs the Clinical Skills Center in the UC Irvine School of Medicine. At its heart is the standardized patient program, where UCI doctors cast actors in patient roles based on real cases. By playing their parts well, these actors help doctors- and nurses-in-training learn to diagnose and interact with patients.
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Los Angeles
Taking Home a Grammy
Gloria Cheng, concert pianist and member of the UCLA Music Department faculty, sat in agony for nearly two hours in February — through seemingly endless categories of music — before hearing her name announced as the winner of the Grammy Award in the classical music category for "Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (Without Orchestra)."
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Health & Welfare Audit Begins in May

New Round of Retirement Readiness Workshops

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