- (Public Value) UCANR: Developing a qualified workforce for California
- Posted by: Gale Perez
![UC Riverside logo](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCDWeedScience/blogfiles/106359small.png)
Position title: Assistant Professor of Extension/Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist in Weed Management in Agronomic Crops
Job #JPF01902
Location: Riverside, CA
APPLICATION WINDOW
Open date: April 17, 2024
Next review date: Wednesday, Jun 12, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date:...
- Posted by: Gale Perez
![UC Weed Science 2024 events](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCDWeedScience/blogfiles/106322small.jpg)
Mark your calendar...
Diagnosing Herbicide Symptoms 2024 link
https://wric.ucdavis.edu/events/diagnosing_herbicide_symptoms_2024.html
Weed Day 2024 link
https://wric.ucdavis.edu/events/weed_day_2024.html
- Author: Thomas J Getts
![Our Student Winners! From left to right: Sawyer Claussen, Robert Willmott, Jennifer Valdez Herrera, Erika Escalona, and Stephen Chang](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCDWeedScience/blogfiles/106080small.jpg)
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Students, it is the time of year to apply for the CWSS Student Scholarship! Awards will be given to both graduate and undergraduate students ranging from $1,000-2,000. Any students interested in Weed Science should apply! Click here to submit an application and for further instruction.
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This year in January at the California Weed Science Society (CWSS) annual conference, we had numerous outstanding students present their...
- Posted by: Gale Perez
![Master's student Erika Escalona shows off her first-place poster presentation during the 2024 California Plant and Soil Conference, hosted by UC ANR in Fresno, Calif., recently.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCDWeedScience/blogfiles/104996small.jpg)
Congratulations to UC Davis weed science graduate student Erika Escalona (Fennimore Lab) for winning 1st place in the student poster presentation category at the 2024 California Plant and Soil Conference on Feb. 6-7, 2024 in Fresno, CA.
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Evaluating Bacterial Diversity in Steam Fumigation Treatments in the Salinas Valley's Lettuce Fields
Erika Escalona, University of California, Davis; Steve Fennimore, UC Cooperative Extension, Weed Specialist, Salinas; Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis; J.S. Rachuy, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis; Cristina Lazcano, Department of Land, Air and...
- Posted by: Gale Perez
![Deniz Inci, Ph.D. Candidate, Weed Science Program, Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCDWeedScience/blogfiles/104862small.jpg)
From the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) Graduate Student Organization newsletter (Feb. 2024)
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Graduate Student of the Month
Deniz Inci, Ph.D. Candidate with the Al-Khatib Lab at UC Davis, is the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) graduate student of the month.
What university do you attend and what is your research focus?
I am at the University of California, Davis, where I have focused on evaluating a suite of tools to improve season-long weed management in California rice...