ANR Employee News

The Office of Pesticide Information and Coordination has opened online registration for its annual UC ANR Pesticide Policy Update Trainings.

With tremendous sadness, we mark the passing and remember the impact of our friend, colleague and mentor, Dorina Espinoza, who passed away Oct. 10 after a brief illness.

Helen Cope Underhill, former UC Cooperative Extension home advisor, passed away Jan. 2, 2024, at age 99. After attending Cooperative Extension home demonstration club meetings with her mother when she was a young girl in Alabama, Underhill decided she wanted to become a home demonstration agent.

Jeane Greenawalt Johnson, former 4-H home advisor in Ventura County, died Feb. 2 in Los Gatos. She was 97. Johnson graduated from Kansas State University with a bachelor's degree in home economics in 1947 and later a bachelor's degree in education from San Jose State University.

UC ANR academics and staff were active participants and presenters at the 44th Annual EcoFarm Conference, held Jan. 17-20 in Pacific Grove.