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Dr. Ryan Galt won the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Consortium for Women and Research at UC Davis.  This award is meant to honor Academic Senate and Academic Federation members for mentoring post-docs, graduate students and/or undergraduates in research, professional development. 

While ASI was at the 2010 Food and Community Conference with over 600 people who work on creating a more sustainable food system, we managed to catch a few of them for brief video interviews about what they do and what was inspiring them. Check it out below:

Featured in the film, in order of appearance:

The Agricultural Sustainability Institute has announced that David Lewis, UC Cooperative Extension Watershed Advisor for California’s North Bay and UC Davis alumnus, is this year's recipient of the Eric Bradford and Charlie Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Leadership Award.

On Sunday morning, June 17, thousands of students marched through UC Davis' campus in caps and gowns to receive their diplomas.  That afternoon, we gathered at the Ecological Garden to celebrate with Genna Lipari and Alannah Kull, the two students who make up the first graduating class of the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Major (SA&FS). 

The UC Davis Children's Garden is collaborating with Life Lab, the Resource Conservation District of Greater San Diego and the California School Garden Network to host the California School Garden Training Program. 

The California Roundtable on Water and Food Supply released a set of proposed strategic actions to increase water security for California agriculture while maintaining or improving other beneficial uses.

The ASI external advisory board (EAB) held its midyear meeting in early May, and focused on the following four objectives:

How will we manage nitrogen in California agriculture over the next 20 years?

This afternoon and all day Thursday, 30 leaders in agriculture from around the state will gather in conjunction with staff from the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis to discuss this question in a scenarios exercise.

Come see ASI director Tom Tomich speak on Weds., September 29, about "Linking Science with Action: Insights from Sustainability Science," as part of the UC Davis Graduate Group in Geography fall quarter speaker series.

Date: September 29, 2010
Time: 4:10 - 5:30 p.m.
Location: Wellman 00115
UC Davis Campus

This talk is part of the UC Davis Graduate Group in Geography's Fall Quarter speaker series titled "Geography of Sustainability: Science and Practice."

ASI is hiring a Communications Coordinator (Public Information Representative)  - 100%  (This position is located in the ANR Building on Hopkins Road.)