The Daedalus Quartet will premiere a new work by UC Davis Department of Music chair Laurie San Martin as well as pieces by doctoral music composition students in two January concerts.

San Martin’s “Six Cuts” will be performed Jan. 18 along with Borodin’s String Quartet No. 2 in D Major and Beethoven’s String Quartet in E Minor, op. 59, no. 2. The concert is at the Ann E. Pitzer Center at 7 p.m. 

The Creative Writing Reading Series at UC Davis continues in 2019 with three diverse and accomplished authors: a 2018 National Book Award finalist; a writer who has produced short stories, a memoir, a novel and graphic novel; and a winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.

The series is organized by the Department of English creative writing program in the College of Letters and Science. All readings are at 7 p.m. in the Peter J. Shields Library and are free and open to the public.

Several UC Davis College of Letters and Science alumni and a donor are being honored with awards from the Cal Aggie Alumni Association (CAAA).

Around the time of his death in 2016, artist Rick Bartow and his estate donated 45 of his works to the C.N. Gorman Museum at UC Davis. Many of those pieces go on display for the first time in “Comings and Goings: Works on Paper by Rick Bartow” opening at the museum Jan. 7.

Håkon Hope, professor emeritus of chemistry at UC Davis, died Nov. 22 at his home in Davis. He was 87.

Hope was a leading researcher in X-ray crystallography, and was known for his pioneering work developing low-temperature methods in biological macromolecule crystallography. His work is widely recognized as resulting in a complete transformation of the practice of biocrystallography. Hope joined the Department of Chemistry in 1965, retiring as professor emeritus in 1993.