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Luck be a lady! Little kids love selecting lady beetles, aka ladybugs, at the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management (UC IPM) booth at Briggs Hall during the annual campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day. The excitement, the capture, the I-get-to-take-these-home-and-put-them-in-my-garden look.

Ms de 53 millones de personas en los Estados Unidos recurrieron a los bancos de comida para llevar alimentos a sus mesas, segn datos de 2021 de la organizacin Feeding America.

As jobless rates rose during the COVID-19 pandemic, millions more Americans experienced food insecurity because they lacked consistent access to food.

Ramsha Baig joined the Nutrition Policy Institute on April 6, 2023 as a research data analyst. Ramsha recently received her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

The first years of life present an optimal window to establish healthy eating behaviors and support childhood development. However, there are limited measurement tools to assess diet quality during infancy.

Longtime research collaborator and local berry breeder California Berry Cultivars is hosting a field day on Tuesday, May 9th at 10AM to announce the release of two day-neutral cultivars. Data will be presented on both releases. Lunch will be provided. Location: 181 Dairy Rd, Watsonville, CA.

After attending a Teens Love Cooking summer series focused on nutrition and culinary skills, 83% of youth participants were more willing to try new foods and ask for them at home. The class helped reinforce their healthy eating habits and support their long-term health.

In the earliest days of human flight, before the invention of the first radio beacons and ground-based electronic systems, and modern GPS, pilots commonly navigated by following roads and railways striking linear landscape elements at ground level that guide towards a destination of interest.

The unusually wet winter and spring of 2023 has had unprecedented impacts on our local orchard systems. However, the cumulative impacts of a barrage of atmospheric rivers and persistent standing water in some flooded areas may not be realized for another year.