ANR Update

Website to provide information on new ANR building and upcoming move

Vice President Allen-Diaz announced in March that the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources will be consolidating over 150 employees into one location in East Davis. ANR reached an agreement with John Buckel and Rod Johnson of Capital Partners Development Company and Sam, Gwen and Jeff Harrison of the Davis Indoor Sports Center, LLC, for the purchase and renovation of the building located at 2801 Second Street in Davis. MFDB Architects is the project architect, Harrison Construction Company is the general contractor, and Jim Gray and Nahz Anvary of Cassidy Turley are the brokers. The groundbreaking was held April 2. 

Tyler Babcock of MFDB Architects, Sen. Lois Wolk, with John Buckel of Capital Partners Development Company, Davis Mayor Joe Krovoza, UC Vice President for Agriculture And Natural Resources Barbara Allen-Diaz, and Sam Harrison of the Davis Indoor Sports Center at the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources facility groundbreaking.

Construction began April 3 and we expect to be moving in by year’s end. Today we are launching a website to provide information on the new building and the upcoming move. The website will be updated frequently – particularly with photos of the construction that is already well underway – so visit often.

Most importantly, there is a button for you to “ASK” questions about the project. I will use your questions and feedback to add topics to the “Frequently Asked Questions” section of the website.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Jan Corlett
Chief of staff to the vice president

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VP to present at regents meeting May 15

VP Barbara Allen-Diaz will give a presentation about ANR at the May 15 regents meeting in Sacramento. “Investing in California” is the second discussion item on the Committee on Educational Policy’s agenda, which begins at 1 p.m. and adjourns at 2:20 p.m.

The regents will be meeting at the Sacramento Convention Center, 1400 J Street, and the educational policy session is open to the public. Background material was mailed to the regents in advance of the meeting.

To watch the meeting live, visit http://lecture.ucsf.edu/ETS/Catalog/Full/333992fe14054d6bae39512a30188f3421.

The Microsoft Silverlight plugin is required on desktop computers. Mediasite presentations can also be viewed on Apple, Android and Blackberry mobile devices. The iPhone and iPod Touch devices require the free Mediasite app.

To listen to the audio without video, visit http://california.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2.

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VP Allen-Diaz: ANR statewide conference started conversations

I want to thank everyone who worked so tirelessly to pull the Global Food System Forum and our statewide conference together. And I especially want to thank those of you who attended, in person and virtually, and added your voices to so many conversations.  

I hope you all enjoyed yourselves, made some new contacts, put some faces to familiar names, renewed networks and found challenging ideas to take home with you.

We chose some of the world’s most confounding and contentious issues to focus on – from climate change to global hunger to water use. 

We heard a diversity of viewpoints, all of them expressed with insight, passion and mutual respect. We’ve shaken up old ideas and hopefully forged some pathways to new ones. We can’t be afraid to hold these kinds of conversations, listen carefully to diverse points of view, and then forge strategies to move forward with what we do best – apply the strength of research and education programs to help eliminate hunger, ensure accessible, affordable, safe and nutritious food, and ensure the conservation of our natural resources.  

The conversations we started at this conference won’t end here. It is clear to many people, both new friends and established, proven partners, that we have critical contributions to make and a global role to play through the work of UC ANR.

We also talked candidly and constructively about how Cooperative Extension and all of the UC ANR community fit together. I heard many speak of a powerful network of people with knowledge and tools committed to

• science-based information
• research and education
• local issues and solutions
• local communities
• global reach

Since our last UC ANR all-staff conference in 2009, many new academics and staff have joined the UC ANR community and we continue to recruit diverse, outstanding people for priority positions. These folks are the future of the Division and UC. I am excited by that future and by those who will join us to explore, create, discover, share, collaborate and work to ensure a California and a world that thrives.

Barbara Allen-Diaz
Vice President

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Global Food Systems Forum videos now online

With more than 1,500 individuals watching live from 34 different countries and six continents last week, the Global Food Systems Forum live webcast was a huge success. The online conversation on Twitter attracted nearly 300 participants, and the forum hashtag #Food2025 trended as the third most popular topic on Twitter during the event. 

If you missed the Global Food Systems Forum webcast, videos from the event are now available online at food2025.ucanr.edu/webcast. 

The online conversation will continue on Twitter using hashtag #Food2025 and on the conference blog. Please join us in our continuing discussion of how to sustainably feed the world by 2025.  

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Global Food Systems Forum attracts international audience

People from more than 350 locations, on every continent except Antarctica, have registered to watch the UC Global Food Systems Forum webcast on April 9.

Interested people in Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Barbados, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Germany, India, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Netherlands, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela and states throughout the U.S., have signed up to be part of this global conversation and the audience continues to grow.

Sign up now to be part of the conversation http://food2025.ucanr.edu. We have begun the discussion on Twitter using (hashtag)#Food2025.

Not on Twitter? There’s still time

At the ANR Statewide Conference, we will be using Twitter for a variety of different purposes. On Tuesday, April 9 during the Global Food Systems Forum, the world will be live tweeting using (hashtag)#Food2025. Questions, answers and conversations on this critical topic will abound.

In addition, throughout the conference we will also be using (hashtag)#ucanr2013 to broadcast basic information for conference participants such as lost and found items, resource room opportunities, and last-minute scheduling changes.

If you haven’t used Twitter, Karl Krist has posted a 3-minute video showing you how to get an account and how to use it. Watch his video on YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFNaKhiHkRU.

For step-by-step Twitter instructions in writing, visit http://agisamerica.org/twitter-guide. Ag is America is a project of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU).

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