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Hold the date: Program team meetings in October
Posted 5/22/2012 - ANR academics working in natural resources and animal sciences will want to hold Oct. 9 and 10 for program team meetings at the International House at UC Berkeley. To date, participating program teams include Forest & Rangeland Systems and Meat...

Urgent action needed today
Posted 5/9/2012 - Yesterday, President Mark Yudof asked UC supporters to communicate now with public officials to express their support for increased funding for this year and for a commitment to reliable, predictable funding levels for UC going forward. If your...

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UCCE launches Northern California obesity study, 'Naturalist' program
Posted 5/22/2012 - UC Cooperative Extension nutrition researchers are in the process of selecting five schools each from Shasta and Butte counties to pilot a nutrition and extension program that university researchers will study to learn how to motivate kids to choose...

UCCE supports Tahoe fire awareness week and Oroville nutrition decathlon
Posted 5/21/2012 - As part of Tahoe Fire Awareness Week, May 26 to June 3, Tahoe Basin fire agencies and partners, including Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the University of California and Nevada Cooperative Extensions, are sponsoring a series of free webinars to help...

Tulare County supervisors support commercial pack animals in national parks
Posted 5/11/2012 - The Tulare County Board of Supervisors voted to support a bill introduced by Congressman Devin Nunes, R-Tulare, allowing businesses that rent pack mules and horses to operate in Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks while a new wilderness plan is...

UC Cooperative Extension advisor helped Solvang family start a new business
Posted 5/10/2012 - Mark Gaskell, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in Santa Barbara County, is credited in the Santa Inez Valley Journal for helping a retired couple start a new business. Gaskell is an expert in small-scale farming. The article said Leonard and Nancy...

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CNR hosts Farm Bill discussion April 5
Posted 4/3/2012 - The US Farm Bill: What’s at Stake? A panel discussion, “The United States Farm Bill: What’s at Stake?” at the University of California, Berkeley. UC Berkeley, state and national experts will give their own prescriptions for making the bill, coming up...

ANR leadership development book club to meet April 2
Posted 3/27/2012 - ANR’s leadership development book club will meet on April 2 to discuss the book, “The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders,” by John Zenger and Joseph Folkman. Three video conferencing sites have been reserved from 11 a.m. to 1...

Daily cap for meal expenses raised
Posted 3/1/2012 - UC Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Peter Taylor has announced that UC’s daily meal and incidental expense (M&IE) cap for travel within the continental U.S. has increased to $71. This change is based on the FY 2012 highest...