• Regents approve UC budget plan for 2001-02
• Vice President Gomes on how augmentations in the budget plan would impact ANR
• The proposed Central Coast Research and Extension Center
• Divisionwide priorities help determine augmentation decisions
• NRS Director Alex Glazer: more funding needed for environmental field sites and graduate student fellowships
• Noted speakers scheduled for 'Odyssey 2001'
• 4-H seeks host families for Japanese exchange students
• Series sparks lively discussion, attracts new readers to California Agriculture journal
• ANR welcomes: Carmen Gispert, viticulture/pest management advisor for Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties

Also in this issue:

• On the move: Maria de la Fuente, Myriam Grajales-Hall, Doris Smith, Sonya Varea-Hammond
• Names in the news: Mary Fujii, Bill Frost
• Judith Stern names to board
• Sustainable ag program creates database for quick online answers
• Funding announced for three Institutes for Science and Innovation
• Job opportunities: Viticulture/Soils Advisor for San Luis Obispo and northern Santa Barbara counties