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The Stanislaus Sprout: Article

Winter Break at Hogwarts

December 23, 2022
By Anne E Schellman
This past week, Master Gardener volunteers Alice and Crystal taught an Herbology class at the Modesto branch of the Stanislaus County Library on December 16, 2022.
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4-H Youth in Action winner, Sruthi Sudarsan.
California 4-H Grown: Article

Congratulations to our Youth in Action Winner, Sruthi Sudarsan

December 19, 2022
By Eve S Dowdell
Sruthi Sudarsan of Alameda County was named the winner of the 2023 4-H Youth in Action Civic Engagement Pillar Award for her diligent work to provide medical and hygiene supplies and educational services to underprivileged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Nutrition Policy Institute News: Article

NPI director to serve on National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee to review interventions to improve infant and toddler feeding behaviors

December 14, 2022
By Danielle Lee, Lorrene D Ritchie
Lorrene Ritchie, director of the Nutrition Policy Institute, will serve as an ad-hoc committee member for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study on Complementary Feeding Interventions for Infants and Young Children under Age 2: Scoping of Promising Interventions to Imple...
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Nutrition Policy Institute News: Article

Christina Hecht comments on America’s concurrent food and water security crises in a Food & Environment Reporting Network article

December 12, 2022
By Christina E Hecht, Danielle Lee, Lorrene D Ritchie
Christina Hecht, senior policy adviser with the University of California's Nutrition Policy Institute, was featured in a Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) article titled Why America's food-security crisis is a water-security crisis, too, published on November 20, 2022.
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Nutrition Policy Institute News: Article

Policy briefs elevating parent voices on the importance of school meals now available in Spanish

December 8, 2022
By Christina E Hecht, Lorrene D Ritchie, Danielle Lee
Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nutrition Policy Institute policy team, Christina Hecht and Ken Hecht, have partnered with a Stanford University research team and two San Joaquin Valley community-based organizations, Dolores Huerta Foundation and Cultiva La Salud, to help improve acce...
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