Read the teaching prize story and click on the photo here to see the cake in the making, at the university's Harvest Bakery, and being delivered by a pair of rock stars. (Reynolds knows and loves Renaissance music, too!) And Hendrix is Reynolds' favorite musician of all time. Why the guitar? It was modeled after the Fender Stratocaster that rock legend Jimi Hendrix set on fire and smashed at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Katehi presented the cake to Professor Christopher Reynolds when they interrupted Reynolds' "History of Rock Music" class on March 8 to announce that he was the recipient of the 2013 UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement. Remember last week's teaching prize announcement, and the "flaming" guitar cake? Chancellor Linda P.B. The March 14 presentation, in the form of a giant check, took place on the steps of Briggs Hall, a lab-research building more than 40 years old - but with a retrofit that is saving more than 4 million kilowatt-hours of electricity and 80,000 therms of gas annually.Ī second giant, ceremonial check, for $2.6 million, represented everything paid to UC Davis to date for projects that qualified for 2012 rebates through the state’s Strategic Energy Partnership, which is funded by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. The PG&E rebates keep on coming! This week, UC Davis received $1 million for a Briggs Hall energy conservation project that cut the university’s electric and gas bills by an estimated $350,000 a year.
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