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Learning & Development: Foreign influence, measuring outcomes, training webinars
Check out the continuing learning opportunities provided through ANR Learning & Development. ANR Webinars are recorded and archived here.
Foreign Influence: What is foreign influence and how can I comply?
Wednesday, Dec. 4 | 9:30 a.m-10:30 a.m.
The university has observed heightened awareness and increased activity related to the issue of foreign influence in academia. Join Kathleen Nolan, ANR Office of Contracts and Grants to learn about new requirements and guidance to better understand the evolving compliance landscape.
Zoom access: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/502451113 |1 669 900 6833 | Webinar ID: 502 451 113
Educating California's Urban Farmers - Spotlight Webinar
Dec. 5, 11 a.m.-11:30 am
Join UCCE advisors Cheryl Wilen and Rachel Surls, who will be sharing impacts of their workshop series - Educating California Urban Farmers.
Zoom access: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428 | 1 669 900 6833 or +1 646 558 8656 | Webinar ID: 751 701 428
Practical Methods to Measuring Outcomes
Dec. 10, Kearney REC, Parlier
Workshop Desired Outcomes: Participants will gain. . .
- understanding of and experience in defining outcomes and identifying measurable indicators for your programs
- understanding of evaluation data collection approaches and methods used by UCCE
- progress on your outcomes evaluation plans/efforts
Writing Strong Impact Statements
Dec. 11, Kearney REC, Parlier
Workshop Desired Outcomes: Participants will gain understanding and practice. . .
- organizing your program activities into themes for the merit and promotion process
- using basic logic model techniques to connect program outcomes to UC ANR condition changes and public value
- identifying condition change indicators to strengthen impact writing
- writing impact statements for your programs -- for your merit and promotion efforts, for UC Delivers, and other communications
Communicating Your Story: Facebook
Wednesday Dec. 11, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Facebook has become an important part of communicating our stories. Wonder if the platform is right for you? In this fast-paced webinar, join Rose Hayden Smith, CE advisor to cover the basics of communicating your story through Facebook, including
- Why you might want to use Facebook;
- Techniques and best practices to get started…or get better;
- Using images and video to enhance your posts;
- Quick tips for effectively and efficiently using the site.
- Participants will also be provided access to a range of resources and tools to support their Facebook efforts, including samples, tip and FAQ sheets, guidelines and more.
Zoom access: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428 | 1 669 900 6833 or +1 646 558 8656 | Webinar ID: 751 701 428
Social Cafe' - Setting 2020 Social Media Goals
Thursday, Dec. 12| 11:30 a.m.-noon
Join Rose Hayden Smith, CE advisor, for the December Social Cafe. It is an informal, monthly "drop in" session that explores various social media topics. This Social Cafe will focus on setting 2020 social media goals.
Zoom access: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428 | 1 669 900 6833 or +1 646 558 8656 | Webinar ID: 751 701 428
Experiential Learning and Reflective Practice (webinar 1)
Dec. 16 | 10:00 am (webinar 2 -Jan 30, 2020; webinar 3- February 20, 2020)
Join CA 4-H for this webinar. Experiential learning is more than "learning by doing." This webinar will introduce participants to the three essential components of experiential learning (EL), as well as strategies to use reflective practice to enhance the EL Practice.
Zoom access: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/8011754152
New! Complementary strategies to address CA water challenges
The Water Program Team is bringing you second Tuesday (except for Dec. 10) webinars through June 2020. The first of this series was Tuesday, Nov. 12 – The Role of the Scientist in Decision Making. Stay tuned for updates and remember - when it comes to California water challenges, there is no silver bullet – but a variety of solutions!
2020 Grant Essentials Summit
Monday, March 2–Tuesday ,March 3, 2020
UC ANR Valley Conference Center in Davis, CA.
Learn best practices, extend your network, and establish new partnerships towards successfully securing grant funding.
- Have you identified areas for professional growth related to ‘grant-winning' that you'd like to strengthen?
- Are you looking to gain a better understanding of the proposal preparation and funding agency grant review process?
- Interested in exploring opportunities and challenges unique to obtaining funding through collective knowledge-sharing and engagement?
Staff and academic participation is welcomed. This summit is hosted by UC ANR Academic Resources, Learning and Development, and the Office of Contracts and Grants. For more information, contact Vanity Campbell at vcampbell@ucanr.edu.
Applications Open: Management Skills Assessment Program
Next program: April 20-23, 2020; then another program: October 12-15, 2020
Apply now (select UC ANR as your location) for the UC-wide Management Skills Assessment Program (MSAP) if you are -
- an early career supervisor (1-5 years managing people) committed to assessing your management skills
- willing to create a professional development plan to address your skill development areas
- prepared to follow your plan and continue to develop your people management skills
ANR Learning & Development pays your registration fee ($1,350) and travel to and from the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center. Any questions? Contact Jodi at jlazulai@ucanr.edu.
ANR People Manager Networking Cohort
Starting in January 2020
Do you want to increase:
- Employee retention,
- Team building & collaboration,
- Productivity and work quality,
- Professional communication skills,
- Morale, and
- A healthy work culture?
Enroll now to participate in ANR facilitated discussions for supervisor development and upskilling. Learn challenges and successes from your peers and from the UC People Management Series Certificate on effective people manager practices.
Networking testimonials:
Russell Hill, Associate 4-H Youth Development Advisor, UCCE Merced, Madera and Mariposa counties: “The information provided could not have been more timely! Each call and each module have improved my skills to support the staff I supervise.”
Marisa Neelon, M.S., R.D., Nutrition, Family & Consumer Sciences Advisor, UCCE Contra Costa: “Through the online modules and discussions, I have learned about new methods to engage employees in their own performance and career development. Recently, I used one of these methods to address an employee performance issue, which resulted in the employee identifying the issue and coming up with solutions to improve their performance. I would recommend the series to anyone that manages people-whether they are new to supervising or not.”
Javier Miramontes, Nutrition Program Manager, UCCE FresnoL “The modules prompted me to send a detailed email to my staff giving them specific goals and at the end I connected how their work benefits department goals, UC's mission, etc. This came about through my reviewing of the module Setting Expectations and Individual Performance Goals.”
For more information, email jlazulai@ucanr.edu.
Are You Looking for a Career Change?
Hoping to find a job that aligns your passion and skills? Navigating career transition can be a daunting task filled with complex questions and uncertainty. Listen to the Nov. 20 UC Alumni Career Network webinar Navigation Career Transition. Check out the latest career planning resources and tools on the L&D Career Planning page.
Disability Management for Supervisors (3-hour, in-person; UC Davis; Registration required; 4/16/2020)
This course addresses what supervisors need to know regarding the requirements to accommodate employees with disabilities under federal and state law as well as university policy. If classes are filled, sign up for the wait-list. Register here.
Career Catalyst Lunchtime Series (UC Davis, Zoom options!)
My UC Career (UC Career Development Portal) (Demo)
Wellness workshops and other resources (in-person and Zoom options) at UC Davis.
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Names in the News
Gibbs named major gifts director
Gregory Gibbs joined Development Services as director of major gifts on July 1. In this role, Gibbs heads the Major Gifts fundraising team on behalf of UCANR.
Gibbs joined the UC system in 2006 as development director for the UC Davis College of Engineering. He later assumed additional responsibility as senior director of Corporate Relations in the Engineering Dean's office. During his tenure at the UC Davis College of Engineering, Gibbs's team was responsible for raising over $90 million in donor funds for students, faculty, infrastructure and academic programs.
After graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy, Gibbs began his career in 1985 as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, designing and analyzing satellite and missile systems to ensure national security. In 1992, he transitioned to the private sector and progressed through a series of technical sales and sales management positions of increasing responsibility at Ceridian Employer Services and Ascolta, a Cisco-certified Learning Solutions Partner focused on IT education. He subsequently relocated from Colorado to California to join the UC team.
His husband, Emilio Bejel, is a UC Davis distinguished professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Gibbs is based in the ANR building at 2801 Second St. in Davis, and can be reached at (530) 750-1371, cell (530) 848-7860 and glgibbs@ucanr.edu.
ASEV honors Bettiga with Extension Distinction Award
Larry Bettiga, UC Cooperative Extension viticulture farm advisor, received the American Society for Enology and Viticulture's Extension Distinction Award at ASEV's 68th National Conference in Bellevue, Wash., on June 28. This honor recognizes a current extension educator for outstanding contribution to an extension program or the advanced translation of novel research findings into commercially applicable tools for enologists or viticulturists.
Bettiga's research focuses on the influences of cultural practices, rootstock and clonal selection, and canopy management on grapevine growth and productivity, and the use of integrated approaches to solve pest management problems in coastal winegrape production systems. Bettiga has been a UCCE viticulture farm advisor for the past 32 years and currently conducts applied research and extension education programs for winegrape growers in Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz counties.
While stationed at the UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Parlier, he evaluated cultural practices for table, wine and raisin grapes to improve yield and quality for grape production in the southern San Joaquin Valley. He also worked on pest management projects for grapes and tree nuts while based at the UC Cooperative Extension office in Tulare County.
Bettiga has authored and co-authored more than 400 technical articles, newsletters, research reports and abstracts. He has been an active member of ASEV since 1984, serving on the board of directors for five years, and was board president from 1999 to 2000.
Apps for Ag Hackathon winner uses AI to diagnose plant problems
For 48 hours, innovators and entrepreneurs at the Apps for Ag Hackathon labored over laptops at The Urban Hive in Sacramento before pitching their ideas to judges at the California State Fair. More than 40 people, some from as far as New York and Texas, competed for a $10,000 grand prize and assistance from UC Agriculture and Natural Resources to turn their ideas into commercial enterprises.
Ultimately Dr. Green, a mobile app to diagnose plant problems, took the top prize on Sunday (July 30). The second-place Greener app also helps people diagnose and treat plant diseases. Farm Table, an app that promotes agritourism, came in third place.
One goal of the hackathon was to produce solutions for military veterans who are becoming farmers. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was a major sponsor of the event and leaders from Washington D.C. were on site all weekend participating.
“There was an amazing range of applications this year,” said Gabriel Youtsey, chief innovation officer.
Twelve teams pitched new ways to apply technology to improve the food system.
“There was an application to take a picture of a plant and it'll identify the plant disease – which can help anyone from backyard gardeners to professional growers – all the way to an application for community-supported fisheries, which helps fishermen better scale their businesses and allows for customers to get the freshest fish,” Youtsey said.
There was an app to match unemployed veterans with farm jobs, an online resource for bees, an app to simplify shipping logistics, an app for detecting mold on produce and many more solutions for food-related problems.
1st Place: Dr. Green
Figuring out why a plant is ailing can be time-consuming for a new farmer or backyard gardener. The plant doctor is always in with Dr. Green. The app created by Sreejumon Kundilepurayil and Vidya Kannoly of Pleasanton will help people identify crop diseases quickly through artificial intelligence and machine learning. The app can incorporate data from sensors monitoring temperature, light and soil moisture to alert growers to problems. Using a smart phone, backyard gardeners and growers can take a photo of plant symptoms and get a diagnosis or use the messaging feature to ask a question about symptoms and receive advice immediately.
Kundilepurayil and Kannoly won $10,000 and tickets to the UC Davis Food and Ag Entrepreneurship Academy, $3,000 worth of Google Cloud Platform credits, plus other resources to help the team start their venture.
2nd Place: Greener
Using a smart phone, home gardeners can take a photo of plant symptoms and quickly get a diagnosis and recommended integrated pest management treatment from the Greener app, created by Scott Kirkland, John Knoll and Shiang-Wan Chin of Davis and Calvin Doval of Oakland. They won $5,000 and $1,000 worth of Google Cloud Platform credits and other resources to help start their venture.
3rd Place: The Farm Table
The Farm Table app aims to make farms more economically sustainable and educate the public about food through agritourism. Heather Lee of San Francisco teamed up with Will Mitchell of Sacramento and Zhenting Zhou of New York City to create the agritourism app.
“We are making agritourism accessible to farmers by building a platform that's connecting visitors with farms,” said Lee. “This is going to help educate our communities on where their food comes from and create an additional revenue source for farmers.”
They won $2,500 and $1,000 worth of Google Cloud Platform credits and other resources to help start their venture.
Growing the pipeline of young innovators
Judges included Joshua Tuscher of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Robert Trice, investor and founder of The Mixing Bowl Hub; Jenna Rodriguez, product manager at Ceres Imaging; Ann Dunkin, chief information officer for the County of Santa Clara; and Jessica Smith, vice president of Strategic Partnerships at AngelHack.
Apps for Ag is a food and agriculture innovation event series hosted by UC ANR and sponsored by IO Labs, The Urban Hive, California Community Colleges and the California State Fair.
“We're growing the pipeline of young innovators, getting entrepreneurs and technologists interested in applying technology to solving problems in the food system,” said Youtsey, who led organization of the hackathon.
“UC ANR is the original innovation engine in food, agriculture and natural resources in California and has been so for over 100 years. This is just taking another spin at tackling innovation in food and agriculture through an innovative competition style format with technology,” he said.
Additional support for the hackathon was provided by Valley Vision, The Mixing Bowl, Farmer Veteran Coalition, AngelHack, Nutiva, Google Cloud Platform, Royse Law Firm, Hot Italian, GTS Kombucha, Startup Sac, AgStart, StartupGrind Sacramento, Future Food, Internet Society San Francisco Bay Chapter, Sacramento Food Co-op, Balsamiq and YouNoodle.
Tech meets ag at Forbes AgTech Summit in Salinas
“As we confront the problems in California today, we must ask ourselves, how will ag and tech solve these problems together? How can Salinas Valley and Silicon Valley work more harmoniously and how will the University of California's quest for new knowledge play a role?” said UC President Janet Napolitano to farmers, engineers, entrepreneurs and others attending the Third Annual Forbes AgTech Summit.
Silicon Valley, the birth place of high tech, converged with Salinas Valley, “the nation's salad bowl,” on June 28 and 29 in Salinas to explore opportunities to apply technology to agriculture's challenges. About 700 people participated in the invitation-only event, which was co-sponsored by the University of California and UC ANR.
“The Forbes AgTech Summit brings together individuals and institutions from two integral parts of California's economic engine — agriculture and technology,” Napolitano said. ”The two have historically remained on parallel paths, each fueling the state's growth, but rarely converging. Yet, this is a unique moment here in California, and we have a unique opportunity in this nexus of agricultural bounty and technological innovation.”
Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, told Farm to Table Talk podcast, “Knowledge comes from experimentation, constant discovery, which agriculture has been doing for well over 1,000 years. That pace in agriculture is increasing today. There's no reason why, if we don't do silly things, the world, even though population will grow by 2 billion in the next three decades, the world won't have sufficient food, more abundant and healthier food than we can even imagine today. Human ingenuity will do it.”
VP Glenda Humiston joined Sallie Calhoun, owner and manager of Paicines Ranch, and Trent McKnight, rancher and founder of Agricorps, to discuss challenges and opportunities to grow entrepreneurs in agriculture with moderator Rob Trice, co-founder and partner of The Mixing Bowl. McKnight said there is technology gap between rural and urban America. Humiston noted that poor access to high-speed broadband in rural regions could slow their adoption of technology.
In a four-minute video produced by Forbes, Humiston discusses challenges and opportunities for agriculture. She describes how The VINE, or The Verde Innovation Network for Entrepreneurship, is being launched by UCANR and led by Gabriel Youtsey, chief innovation officer, to cultivate regional innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems in rural communities.
Between the rising cost of minimum wage, an aging working population and immigration crackdowns, farming is facing a worker shortage. Brian Antle of Tanimura & Antle, Dan Steere, co-founder and CEO of Abundant Robotics, and Javier Zamora, owner of JSM Organics, discussed with moderator David Mancera of Kitchen Table Advisors, how technology could perform work that people don't want to do. Antle pointed out that while machines can plant and cut, they cannot replace the judgment of skilled workers.
In her address, Napolitano explained UC's interest in agricultural technology.
“We started the UC Global Food Initiative three years ago to find scalable solutions to sustainably and nutritiously feed a growing world population — one that's expected to reach 8 billion people by 2025,” Napolitano said. “At the same time, for more than a hundred years, people at UC Agriculture and Natural Resources have equipped farmers across the state with the latest scientific and technological advances in agriculture.
“They connect cutting-edge innovation with the state's farmers, who produce half of the nation's fruit and vegetables and export food to countries around the world. And they are constantly generating and testing new ideas.”
See related news coverage:
Napolitano Says Ag Needs Technology
Greater collaboration between ag and tech coming
University of California kicks off Ag innovation program
Labor shortage in ag fueling technology
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