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UC Davis Ph.D. student Alexandre Rico Fernandez presents Noelia Silva del Rio lab's HPAI H5N1 study results at at the 2025 Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases.
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Silva del Rio studies HPAI H5N1 in dairy cattle

January 28th, 2025
Research on highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, a virus of growing concern following its spillover into dairy cattle,was featured at the 2025 Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases (CRWAD), held in Chicago from Jan. 18 to 21.
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L&D - Keeping extension relevant, integrating climate into extension, culturally responsive evals, 21-day racial equity habit, ANR credit card machine

January 27th, 2025
By Jodi L Azulai
Landing page | Archived webinars | Learning resources Extension Methods & Delivery Building Support Equity, Diversity, Inclusion Office, Team, & Personal Management NECI Professional Development Webinar: Integrating Climate into Extension Programming (Extension Foundation) Feb. 5 | noon - 1 p.
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Anita Oberholster, a professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Viticulture and Enology, extracting wine from casks in the Teaching and Research Winery. (Jael Mackendorf / UC Davis)
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In memoriam: Anita Oberholster

January 14th, 2025
Oberholster pioneered research into how wildfire smoke affected grapes and wine Anita Oberholster, a wine chemist and professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Viticulture and Enology at University of California, Davis, died Jan. 11 after a long battle with cancer. She was 50.
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