- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Survey results will help to identify critical areas that need additional research or extension services related to parasites management in organic production. The questionnaire takes 10-15 minutes to complete. The provided information will not include any identification beyond regional location and will be kept strictly confidential.
More information about the Farm Animal Risk Mitigation Prepare, Prevent, Evaluate project and webinars can be found at the FARM PPE website.
The deadline for participating in the organic livestock survey has been extended to May 31. The survey link is https://ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_77pA9H94xKMA27s.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please contact Alda Pires, UC Cooperative Extension specialist, at pireslab@ucdavis.edu or Noelia Silva del Rio, UCCE specialist, at nsilvadelrio@ucdavis.edu or Teresa Miranda at teresa.fernandes.miranda@gmail.com.
- Author: Jodi Azulai
UC ANR LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT
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May 11, 2023
11 a.m. - Noon
Details & Registration
In this fast-paced webinar, we'll cover the basics of communicating your story through blogging. Participants will be provided access to resources and tools to support their blogging efforts, including samples, tip and FAQ sheet, guidelines and more.
Doing Engaged Science: Tensions and Insights from the Water for Ag project - Virtual Extension Foundation
May 22, 2023, 11 a.m. - Noon
Details & Registration
Water 4 Ag was a USDA NIFA funded multidisciplinary, five-year collaborative research and engagement project in Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Arizona that facilitated community-led stakeholder engagement to address local water and ag issues. Along the way, many lessons were learned around designing, managing and conducting practice and research across academic disciplines in supporting community led initiatives. May's presenters will provide participants with helpful information for designing and delivering their own programs through discussing the insights, tensions and outcomes of the Water 4 Ag project.
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Using the new ANR Workflow Automation program to route C&G Forms “800“ and Advance Account Request
May 3, 2023
12:15 - 1:00 PM
Introduction and training on the new Workflow Automation system. We will go through the automated program and show how to use it for the C&G Form 800 and the C&G Form Advanced Account Request.
Zoom https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428?pwd=Q1ZrbUtoQVJwMXJVRkQydUlwNytJQT09
Password: 4Learning | +1 669 900 6833 | Webinar ID: 751 701 428
May 5, 2023
12:15 - 1:00 PM
Once a sponsor elects to fund a proposal, the review, negotiation and award acceptance process begins. This webinar walks you through what is happening in the Office of Contracts and Grants, and what to do when the accepted agreement arrives in your office. Zoom
https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428?pwd=Q1ZrbUtoQVJwMXJVRkQydUlwNytJQT09
Password: 4Learning | +1 669 900 6833 | Webinar ID: 751 701 428
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Working with Subrecipients
May 10, 2023
12:15 - 1:00 PM
Learn the definitions of Subrecipients, the internal processes involved in setting up a subaward as well as monitoring requirements and helpful resources available.
Fiscal management of grants, contracts, and other funding agreements is the responsibility of the Principal Investigator and the Administering Unit. Learn more about how to successfully manage your project finances, adhere to University policies, adhere to the Sponsor's terms and condition, and how to monitor your subawardees.
https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428?pwd=Q1ZrbUtoQVJwMXJVRkQydUlwNytJQT09
Password: 4Learning | +1 669 900 6833 | Webinar ID: 751 701 428
Post-award Process
May 12, 2023
12:15-1:00 PM
Fiscal management of grants, contracts and other funding agreements is the responsibility of the Principal Investigator and the Administering Unit. Learn more about how to successfully manage your project finances, adhere to University policies, adhere to the Sponsor's terms and condition, and how to monitor your subawardees.
https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428?pwd=Q1ZrbUtoQVJwMXJVRkQydUlwNytJQT09
Password: 4Learning | +1 669 900 6833 | Webinar ID: 751 701 428
Advancing Health Equity in California: Part 2 of 3-part series
May 3, (Part 3- June 7)
2-3:30 p.m.
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Are you concerned about increasing health inequities across California? Have you wondered how UC ANR can make a difference?
UC ANR's Community Nutrition and Health unit is proud to host a three-part training series on “Advancing Health Equity” in collaboration with UCSF School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and Center for Child and Community Health. UC ANR Educators, Supervisors, Advisors and Specialists from across our Statewide Programs and Initiatives are invited to attend.
May 8, 2023
9:00 – 11:00 AM
50 Seats available
Apply by May 5. Join us to help learn how to make UC ANR a more inclusive organization!
UC ANR Human Resources and Learning & Development are offering a workshop to further explore, develop and supplement the UC Implicit Bias Series. We will divide into facilitated breakout groups to tackle strategies that counter negative scenarios and encourage positive interactions. This workshop will be a great opportunity to practice “standing in the community” and supporting ANR Principles of Community and ANR's strategic mission to expand Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Image:NYSUT United
Best Practices to Reach Out to Latinos - Extension Foundation
May 25, 2023
11 a.m. - Noon
Details and Registration
In this fast-paced webinar, Extension program educators, advisors and directors will learn best practices to reach and engage Latinos and the importance of creating partnerships with their local media. Topics include: Audience, Messaging, Identifying community needs and priorities, Building relationships,Partnering with community organizations, Social media vs. traditional media
Participants will gain insight into how to take a multi-directional approach to outreach and how to use traditional media outlets more effectively, including radio, print media, broadcast TV, and news releases.
7 spots left for reimbursement - UC Berkeley NOW Conference - Next Opportunity at Work 2023
Details & Registration. UC Berkeley People & Culture is thrilled to announce the (11th annual) Next Opportunity at Work (NOW) Conference is being planned as an in-person event for 2023! The in-person event will be held on pm at the Oakland Marriott City Center. Pre- and post-conference activities will be held virtually including but not limited to virtual group/1:1 coaching opportunities and other activities.
UC ANR Learning & Development funds will reimburse up to 10 Staff for up to $300.00. First served AND priorities will be given to those who have not been reimbursed for this conference in the past.
UC ANR New Employee Welcome – Virtual
May 23, 2023
9:00 - 11:20 AM
Registration.
Participate in a concise welcome to ANR! Meet our Leadership team, get to know your colleagues, and learn a bit about ANR and how your role connects to the larger ANR mission. Learn about:
- UC Davis Health Benefits
- UC Davis Fidelity Retirement
- UC Davis Ombuds
- Staff Assembly
- Employee Resource Groups
Participants are UC ANR employees (academics, staff and affiliated staff on campuses, counties and RECs) who have not yet participated in a New Employee Welcome meeting.
May 31, 2023
8:30 AM - Noon
Register here by May 29.
Join Dennis Wade from People Development Systems for this workshop. Managing the expectations of your supervisor and having an effective relationship with them require conscious planning and effort.
This half-day course is for anyone with a supervisor. It will help you with necessary strategies and tools to understand:
- The current state of the relationship with your boss and how to improve it
- A strategy for managing the expectations of your supervisor
- An approach for getting your boss to accept your ideas
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Everyone can learn something new.
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- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Elizabeth Moon, director of Workplace Inclusion & Belonging, invites all UC ANR colleagues to participate in a postcard design contest and survey about diversity, equity and inclusion.
Are you able to visualize what inclusion, equity and belonging looks like at UC ANR?
Create a postcard depicting an image of inclusion, equity and belonging at UC ANR and submit it online at https://bit.ly/postcardcompetition2023 by May 8. The top six designs will receive a $50 Amazon gift card, their design featured on the new Diversity, Equity & Inclusion website and the published postcard.
In addition, please share your experiences and ideas in an anonymous survey about diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at ANR and ideas for possible ways to enhance our work in this area. Submit the survey by 11:59 p.m. on May 10 to be included in the random drawing for four $25 gift cards. To enter the gift card drawing, enter your email on the survey or email emoon@ucanr.edu privately with subject line “Completed Survey.”
Complete the DEI survey at http://bit.ly/DEISURVEY2023.
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Do you want to have productive conversations about farming practices – sustainable, organic, conventional, regenerative, ecological – rather than arguing with people? Are you hungry for effective ways to convey the complexities of farming with people who have little experience with agriculture? Attend a workshop on July 18-19 in Pacific Grove to learn and practice using exciting new communication tools that can help you address the questions above and more.
This 1.5-day workshop is for agricultural professionals, farmers, communicators, advocates, and policymakers who regularly engage with the public on food and farm issues. It is part of a research and education grant funded by Western Sustainable Agricultural Research and Education.
Speakers will share practices grounded in social-science research (conducted by FrameWorks Institute and The Farming and Food Narrative Project) that explored the public's understanding of agriculture and effective ways to create understanding about unfamiliar farming topics.
You will be able to share your most pressing communication challenges, engage with communication strategies that ‘reframe' the conversation about good farming practices, and practice on your own materials. You will meet and connect with colleagues facing similar challenges and can choose to join a follow-up community of learning. The goal is that participants leave feeling confident to employ new communications tools in their work.
When: Tuesday, July 18, 1 p.m. – Wednesday, July 19, 4 p.m.
Where: Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove
Speakers:
- Jessica Moyer, FrameWorks Institute
- Michael Rozyne and Kelsey Gosch, Red Tomato
- Clare Sullivan, Oregon State University professor of crop and soil science
- Jim Farrar, UC Integrated Pest Management Program director
Registration costs $100 and includes one night's lodging and meals. Apply at https://forms.gle/JsJAXjrtZN27Hvyy5. Workshop space is limited so please apply by May 15.
For financial assistance, please contact kgosch@redtomato.org.
For more information about the agricultural communication workshop and the "Reframing in the West" project, see https://www.farmingandfoodnarrative.org/western-sare.
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
David W. Cudney, UC Cooperative Extension specialist emeritus, passed away in Riverside on March 30. He was 82.
Cudney joined UCCE in 1964 as a farm advisor for Imperial County. In 1978, he became a UCCE weed science specialist for Southern California, based at UC Riverside. While working as a specialist, he earned his Ph.D. from UC Riverside in 1989.
In 1992, Cudney and six Extension specialist colleagues from all over the western United States, published Weeds of the West, a guide book to identifying weeds in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. The 11th edition, containing more than 900 color photographs showing the early growth stages, mature plants and features for positive identification of each weed, was published in 2012.
“I met Dave as a grad student at UC Davis when I started my program working on a basic study of herbicide resistance,” said Jodie Holt, director of the UC Riverside Botanic Gardens and professor emerita. “Dave's the one who cajoled me into presenting a poster at a Weed Day and becoming active in the weed science community. Throughout my career he was a great mentor who kept me and my students connected to on-the-ground weed science.”
Holt also remembered Cudney's kindness as a friend.
“On a personal note, when our son was interested in flight simulation software, for his 14th birthday, Dave surprised him by taking us all on a flight and letting Doug fly the plane,” she said. “He was a wonderfully positive, kind and generous friend and colleague!”
Cudney is survived by his wife, Loretta Cudney, and his children Michael Cudney of Riverside; Jana Cudney of Ontario; and Lisa Zaldivar and her husband, Anthony Zaldivar, and their children Alyssa and Christopher, all of San Dimas and Anthony Zaldivar of Palm Desert; his sister, Rita Suminski and her husband, Russell Suminski of Minden, Nevada.
Read more about Cudney's life at https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/riverside-ca/david-cudney-11228967.