Associate Vice President

Wendy Powers is director of the Research and Extension Center System & Associate Director of Cooperative Extension and the Agricultural Experiment Station. She is responsible for guiding all ANR academic programs at the statewide level and is chair of the ANR Program Council.

Powers also serves as the statewide program leader for county-based Cooperative Extension programs in every county and oversees the research and extension centers located around the state.

Prior to joining the University of California in June 2016, Powers was a professor and director at Michigan State University for 10 years. She began her academic career at Iowa State University, where she spent 10 years following the completion of graduate degrees at the University of Florida and a bachelor's degree at Cornell University.

ANR Adventures

Read and subscribe to ANR Associate Vice President Wendy Powers' blog. http://ucanr.edu/ANRAdventures.

Photo of Dr Wendy Powers Dr Wendy Powers
Title: Associate Vice President, Agriculture and Natural Resources
Address:
1111 Franklin St., 10th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607
Phone: (510) 987-9033
Email: wendy.powers@ucop.edu

Photo of Kathryn M Stein Kathryn M Stein
Title: Executive Assistant
Address:
1111 Franklin Street
Office 10106E
Oakland, CA 94607
Phone: (510)587-6240
Email: kathryn.stein@ucop.edu

Powers' areas of responsibility include:

The director of the Research and Extension Center System & Associate Director of Cooperative Extension and the Agricultural Experiment Station advances Divisionwide program priorities through the deployment of resources and the application of criteria for advancement of academic personnel. The position reports directly to the ANR vice president.