Posts Tagged: career
Jessica Gillung: Absolute Dynamo
Congratulations, Jessica Gillung! What an absolute dynamo! Gillung, an evolutionary...
UC Davis doctoral alumnus Jessica Gillung, now on the faculty of McGill University, is the winner of the Entomological Society of America's International Branch Early Career and Leadership Award.
Congrats, Entomologist Jessica Gillung! Recipient of Royal Entomological Society Award
Congrats to Jessica Gillung for a well-deserved honor! Gillung, a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell...
As a graduate student at UC Davis, Jessica Gillung participated in many outreach programs with the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Parlier High School students explore applied agriculture and natural resources research careers by visiting Kearney in April.
About 35 Parlier High School students came to Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center (KARE) not knowing much about ANR or what to expect. They started the day with an entomology workshop conducted by Julie Sievert, a staff research associate at KARE. A tour of research plots demonstrated many different types of disciplines and strategies to research and extend science-based knowledge to address important agricultural and natural resources issues. During lunch, most of the students wanted to return to the world of entomology. As the students left, they commented on how this was a fantastic field trip and that they never knew how interesting and fulfilling applied Ag and natural resources research could be.
Congratulations, ESA Winner Kelly Hamby!
Congratulations, UC Davis alumna Kelly Hamby! Hamby, an assistant professor and extension...
Kelly Hamby, assistant professor and Extension specialist in the Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, conducts a horticultural crop tour hosted by the Western Maryland Research and Education Center. The educational meeting gave fruit and vegetable producers a look at several of the ongoing projects at the research facility located in Washington County, MD, as well as the opportunity to interact with University of Maryland researchers and Extension specialists.
Kelly Hamby (foreground) works on a lygus bioassay with a University of Maryland student.
Kelly Hamby works in a University of Maryland research field, a young raspberry planting "where we are deploying spray card to evaluate spray coverage."
Parlier students explore applied agriculture and natural resources research careers by visiting Kearney
Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center is providing tours and workshops for Parlier's 4th grade, middle school and high school students. As part of UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR), Kearney supports programs that focus on five strategic initiatives:
- sustainable natural ecosystems
- healthy families and communities
- sustainable food systems
- endemic and invasive plants and diseases
- water quality, quantity and security
Students are provided with a tour of research as well as workshops that allow them to relate how applied ANR research impacts them. These field trips also increase student awareness of potential careers in the local area.
Parlier Unified School District's career technical education coordinator, Mr. Rafael Iniguez, is helping PUSD's efforts to expand agricultural career awareness among Parlier's students. Parlier Jr. High School has Ag. classes, and there are three Agriculture career pathways at Parlier High School: Ag. Mechanics, Ag. Plant Science, and Ag. Science. A Reedley Exponent article indicated that about 45% of Parlier's 800 high school students are in the Ag career pathways.