ANR Employee News

Winter is the season to analyze data. If you'd like to freshen up your data analysis skills, or learn a new tool, check out these upcoming training opportunities from the Informatics and GIS Statewide Program and UC Love Data Week.

David Zilberman, a UC Cooperative Extension agricultural and resources economics specialist at UC Berkeley, retired on Jan. 1 after 47 years.

Throughout 2026, the California Department of Food and Agriculture and California Grown and UC ANR will be celebrating women’s contributions to the global food system for the International Year of the Woman Farmer.

Peter Passof, UC Cooperative Extension forestry advisor emeritus, passed away on Jan. 20.

Lan Nguyen, a former community nutrition educator for UC Cooperative Extension in Alameda County, died in Milpitas on Jan. 10.