- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Nomination applications are being accepted for the ANR Staff Appreciation and Recognition (STAR) Program.
The purpose of the STAR program is to recognize and reward outstanding staff individual and/or team performance within Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Under the STAR plan, managers are able to recognize, acknowledge and reward employees for exceptional performance and/or significant contributions related to and supportive of individual, departmental, divisional, and/or organizational goals and objectives. Managers may acknowledge and reward individuals and teams demonstrating:
- Exceptional performance: Demonstrated and sustained exceptional performance that consistently exceeds goals...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
The UCCE Centennial Committee members invite you to join them for a short webinar on Monday, March 24, at 2 p.m. to learn more about the May 8 Day of Science and Service.
On May 8, 1914, President Wilson signed the Smith-Lever Act and established the national Cooperative Extension Service, which strongly tied service, science and citizen participation together in scientific enterprises.
Now, 100 years later, we're celebrating this milestone by asking all Californians to join in a one-day science project and to be a scientist for a day. We've developed three questions – about water, food and pollinators – and we're turning to you to help us engage the public to collect answers to these...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
We recently completed the third cycle of the ANR Competitive Grants Program, committing approximately $3.5 million over 5 years to 15 projects. For all three cycles, almost $12 million have been committed to 52 research and outreach projects headed by ANR academics. The Division has invested in research, education and outreach projects addressing high-priority issues that are consistent with the Strategic Vision, encourage collaboration, are high-impact projects, strengthen the research-extension network, and contribute policy relevant outcomes that address significant agricultural, economic, environmental and social issues in California.
After several years of significant investment, it is time for the Division to conduct...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
The Forest and Rangeland Systems Program Team will meet May 1, from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., and May 2, 8 a.m. to noon, at the ANR building at 2801 Second Street in Davis.
At the meeting, program team participants will give input on UC Cooperative Extension specialist and advisor positions to propose for priority needs. The 2014 call for positions closes May 19.
John Harper, the new leader of the Sustainable Natural Ecosystems Strategic Initiative, will discuss future plans for the initiative. Doug Parker, director of the California Institute for Water Resources and the water initiative leader, will give an update on drought issues and UC's role. Bill Tietje, UCCE specialist in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
If you missed this morning's town hall, it was recorded on Adobe Connect and posted at http://uc-d.adobeconnect.com/p5pzkfpmdpi.
VP Barbara Allen-Diaz discussed President Janet Napolitano's announcement that ANR will return to reporting directly to the UC President just as the campus chancellors do.
Allen-Diaz and AVP Bill Frost also discussed
- the Cooperative Extension centennial
- release of the work environment assessment results on March 19
- Ag Day at the Capitol,
- Their recent visits with members of Congress in Washington DC
- wearing bees to fulfill the Promise for Education
- an ag tour for...
