ANR Employee News

The Intermountain Research and Extension Center is soliciting proposals from researchers for new and continuing research projects in 2019-20. IREC is a 140-acre research facility located at 4,000 feet elevation near the Oregon border.

Starting Monday, Dec. 17, ANR's help desk team will begin offering virtual office hours to answer questions about the multifactor authorization app Duo. The Zoom link to the Duo Clinic is ucanr.zoom.us/s/491057944. Join any time between 9 and 11 a.m.

Joanne Ikeda, UC Cooperative Extension nutrition specialist emeritus in the Department of Nutrition and Toxicology at UC Berkeley for 36 years, died on Nov. 27. She was 74. She was highly respected for her research on the food habits of minority populations living in California.

R.H. "Hank" Sciaroni, UC Cooperative Extension advisor emeritus, passed away on Sept. 30, 2018. He was 95. Sciaroni, who served UCCE as a farm advisor and director for close to 40 years, was instrumental in establishing UC Cooperative Extension in San Mateo and San Francisco counties.

Between the Camp Fire in Butte County and the Woolsey Fire in Southern California in November, most ANR members have been affected in some way by the devastating wildfires. Several have experienced major personal losses that they are still dealing with. While the Camp Fire was still raging on Nov.