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Calfresh Healthy Living, UC Cooperative Extension educators stand next to partners at St. Mary's Community Services in front of the family lodge in Stockton
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Budgeting course provides ‘head start’ for people in transitional housing

April 7th, 2025
By Michael Hsu
St. Mary’s – a community-based organization in Stockton that provides essential services, social services, health services, and emergency shelter and housing services – started offering the basic money-management class in January 2024. It's the result of a partnership with University of California…
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Kids gather around a table covered in cardboard parts and connectors.
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North Bay Science Discovery Day inspires future innovators

March 12th, 2025
By Pamela S Kan-Rice, Ricardo A Vela
 Imagine holding science right in your hands – launching rockets toward the sky, building robots, operating on a “patient” or holding a colorful lizard. For thousands of Northern California families, this isn't just imagination, these are just some of the activities they did at the North Bay Science…
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Survey: Water system consolidations improve water quality, infrastructure

February 28th, 2025
By Michael Hsu
Kristin Dobbin, a UCCE specialist, is studying the consolidation of water systems, which can entail creating physical connections (such as pipelines) between water systems or administrative mergers that leave the physical infrastructure unchanged. Water system consolidation has become a top solution in…
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Students from Fullerton Joint Union High School, including Andres Martinez (right), snack on lettuce grown in hydroponics at the South Coast REC. Photo by Saoimanu Sope.
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South Coast REC program educates, trains future ag workforce

November 18th, 2024
By Saoimanu Sope
Renowned for pioneering research that leads to exciting new crop varieties like the Luna avocado, the University of California South Coast Research and Extension Center (REC) in Irvine is also an important hub for agricultural education.
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