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ANR Employee News: Article

Building UC ANR statistics resources

May 30, 2023
By Jodi L Azulai
UC ANR is working to bring you statistics resources, informed by internal needs assessments and by identifying statistics experts who are open to opportunities for consulting and collaboration within the UC ANR network. If this is you, please sign-up in this Google sheet.
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UC Rice Blog: Article

Rice seed midge injury

May 30, 2023
By Luis Espino
I recently visited a field that had quite a bit of rice seed midge injury. In this case, the seedlings that were not injured were almost at the one leaf stage, and one could observe quite a few seeds still in the soil surface.
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UC Davis professor Phil Ward and lab member Jill Oberski, greet guests at the Bohart Museum open house. In the center is a display on "Ants as Farmers." In back are Bohart collections manager Brennen Dyer (left) conversing with Alex Francis, a freshman at Heritage High School, Brentwood. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Bohart Open House: Fielding Questions About Ants

May 30, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Visitors at the recent Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on ants learned all about what myrmecologist Phil Ward, UC Davis professor of entomology, calls "our friends, the ants." The three-hour open house included displays of live ants as well as specimens.
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Topics in Subtropics: Article

Know Your Weather

May 30, 2023
By Ben A Faber
Free CalAgroClimate tool helps growers protect crops from frost and extreme heat California farmers can see how climatic conditions that may affect agriculture are changing in their regions by using CalAgroClimate so they can make strategic changes.
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Picture of Wellman Hall at UC Davis. Outside is an area where students can take pictures agains a big 4-H backdrop.
ANR Adventures: Article

4-H State Field Day and Fashion Review

May 29, 2023
By Deanne Meyer
By now academics and their supervisors are aware the deadline for Project Board and merit and promotion dossier is December 8. We've moved the date for two reasons. First, the Federal Report is due earlier, so we had to move the Project Board deadline.
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This work, "The Siege of Vicksburg--Assault on Fort Hill," is by Swedish-born American illustrator Thure de Thulstrup (1848-1930), whom his contemporary critics considered "the foremost military artist in America." (Image courtesy of Wikipedia)
Bug Squad: Article

Malaria, Memorial Day and Memories of the Civil War

May 29, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Every Memorial Day, I especially remember my great-grandfather, Samuel Davidson Laughlin (1843-1910), a Civil War color bearer who contracted malaria during the Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 -July 4, 1863). The soldiers called the mosquitoes "gallinippers.
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Flyer for June 14, 2023 Juneteenth event with Dr. Mary Blackburn and Dr. Keith Nathaniel
ANR Employee News: Article

Join UC Black Staff & Faculty, BAE for Juneteenth events

May 28, 2023
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
UC ANR employees are invited to join the UCOP Black Staff & Faculty Organization for a Juneteenth week of events! More information and an event flyer (PDF) can be found on the UCOP page. The UC ANR Black and Allied Employees are also hosting a "Celebrating Juneteenth" event on June 14, from 10:30 a.
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Giving Day Thank you!
ANR Employee News: Article

Donors show support on UC ANR Giving Day

May 28, 2023
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
On UC ANR Giving Day, May 18-19, generous donors throughout the state contributed $80,737 for UC ANR research and extension programs across California.
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