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The Nutrition Policy Institute welcomed Monica Zuercher on February 1, 2022 as an assistant project scientist. Dr. Zuercher is a nutritional epidemiologist with experience in teaching, health research, data analysis, scientific communication, and nutrition interventions.

Wendi Gosliner, senior researcher and policy advisor at the Nutrition Policy Institute, spoke on a panel on policy and advocacy on January 28 at a virtual symposium hosted by the University of California, Berkeley and Plant Futures.

Earlier this week a friend posted on Twitter about temperatures at their place expected to go from 68F one day to 28F the next. Here in the Eastern Sierra we do that just about every day! Wide temperature swings can cause environmental injury to trees.

By Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County As the new year gets underway, we start dreaming of what our gardens will be like in the spring and summer. he urge to garden should be rising within you. Even if it is cold and wet there are things you can start planning and doing.

Growing up my parents would try to take my siblings and me to Mexico every year when they could. That way we would be able to see our grandmothers, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Both of my parents we born and grew up in the state of Jalisco. Their towns are about 120 miles apart from each other.

For students at Esperanza Education Center, an adult transition program serving students with disabilities in south Orange County, there was something deeply satisfying about handpicking 2,000 pounds of avocados.

UPDATE ON UPCOMING MEETING AND CANCELED MEETINGS...

While much of January was a bit slower paced, this week is vastly different. The mornings and nights have blurred, running into each other while seemingly getting further behind on the to-do list. I know many of the academic personnel felt this way this week with review packages due on Tuesday.

The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis is currently closed to the public due to COVID pandemic precautions, but a jubilant crew helped celebrate the Feb. 1st birthday of its director, Lynn Kimsey, a UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology who has administered the museum since 1990.

Watch for eight-legged encounters! The American Arachnological Society's 2022 meeting is scheduled June 26-30 on the University of California, Davis, campus.