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March 4, 2020 UCCE Stanislaus 3800 Cornucopia Way Modesto, CA For more information, please contact: Jennifer Heguy, UCCE Dairy Farm Advisor jmheguy@ucdavis.

"I don't teach because I have to; I teach because it is a joy to light the way and to spark the fire of knowledge." So says noted chemical ecologist Walter Leal, newly selected recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award for Undergraduate Teaching from the UC Davis Academic Senate.

Dear Colleagues, With a growing recognition of the value racial, ethnic and gender equity in the STEM workforce as a tool for accelerating innovation, the nation's Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) have an important role to play as culturally relevant institutions of higher education serving a gro...

Sourdough By Sarah Arana UCCE Master Food Preserver I'm trying to stay away from processed foods, what are some staples that I could start with? -Beth S. Los Osos, Ca. One of best things to keep on hand that is the base for many dishes is homemade stock.

Paraquat Regulation Update Alternatives to Paraquat Chlorpyriphos Regulations and Alfalfa Weevil Resistance Aphids Alfalfa Weevils...

I received an e-mail from OSU (The Ohio State University) Weed Management on a free webinar series. The USB Take Action initiative and university weed scientists across the region have developed a free webinar series covering various weed and herbicide management issues.

How to Plant California Natives California natives are wonderful plants to have in the garden. They don't need a lot of maintenance once they are established. What they do need, is the appropriate installation to get them going and make them happy. Natives do not like to be fertilized.

National Public Radio highlighted a growing concern for San Joaquin Valley tree fruit and nut farmers - diminishing winter chill in an age of climate change. "Warm winters mess with nut trees' sex lives," reported Lauren Summer on Morning Edition.

Have you read The Princess and the Pea written by Hans Christian Anderson? If so, you know from the story only a princess would be so sensitive as to feel a pea under twenty mattresses and twenty eider-down beds.

Evolutionary biologist Mercedes Burns of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, should draw a large crowd when she discusses her research on the evolutionary biology of sex and sexual conflict of harvesters or "daddy-longlegs.