• Novartis commits $25 million to support biotech research at UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources.
• NRS receives $1.2 million gift from Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund.
• Take 1: Stories about the people in DANR. Alexander Glazer's crusade.
• Three case studies on soil quality receive funding from Kearney Foundation of Soil Science.
• Natural Resources Continuing Conference to be held March 9-11 at the Bodega Marine Laboratory.
• UC-DANR Statewide Conference Meeting to focus on meeting future challenges.
• Monsanto donates rights for corn biotechnology to UC Berkeley.

Also in this issue:

• Names in the news
• UC begins search for chancellor of the planned Merced campus
• Funding alert