TopicsAugust 22, 2023
- Message from the Associate Vice-President and Director of Extension
- Congrats to the 2023 Heart of Extension Award Recipients
- Nominate Someone for ALVSCE Administrator of the Year
- Application for GALS Camp Now Open
- Making Professional Websites with Quarto & RStudio
- Learn to Make Fact Sheets Using Extension Templates
- 19th Annual RISE Symposium
- Cowman's Reproduction Workshop
- Yuma Fall Vegetable IPM Workshop
- SNRE Seminar Announcement
- SARE Grant Writing Workshop
- Job Openings
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Message from the Associate Vice-President and Director of Extension
Well, it finally happened, that time of year when the parking garages are filled, the lines at the Student Union are long, and trying to cross the street on campus rivals any crosswalk in New York City… the students have returned.
It actually has been great to see everyone walking around campus again. Last week there were students with parents with maps, trying to locate buildings and classrooms before school began. This week, students walk around trying to remember where they were last week. I have always enjoyed this time of year on campus. It sort of reminds me of when I was a freshman at Michigan State University just a few short years ago. – at least in dog years.
On behalf of UArizona Cooperative Extension, Welcome back, students – Bear Down!
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Tamara Floyd with Ed Martin, state Director of Extension
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Heart of Extension AwardsEight Extension teammates from across the state earned Heart of Extension Awards in 2023. Each received a plaque August 4 at the Annual Conference in Tucson. In the coming weeks, TEN will feature the presentation speeches from the conference. Congratulations, Tamara Floyd!
Tamara Floyd,
Community Outreach Professional, Maricopa County
Tamara embodies the heart, soul, and spirit of the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension. As a Community Outreach Professional Tamara reflects enthusiasm for her work, creativity in family engagement, and superior performance in attracting and retaining community partners. She seeks creative ways to partner with SNAP-Ed, EFNEP, 4-H and other programs in the Maricopa County Extension office.
Tamara’s work is embedded in the multicultural community of south Phoenix at the University of Arizona – Roosevelt Early Childhood Family Resource Center. Tamara takes her role seriously as a liaison and cultural guide to the African-American and Black families who reside in the area.
Tamara is a sought-after community partner with many agencies recognizing the benefits of collaborating with the Family Resource Center due to her outgoing demeanor, conscientious work ethic, and can-do attitude. In July 2021, she led a Community Health and Care Fair which brought together 20 community partners and more than 50 volunteers to offer mammograms, EKGs, preventive health tests, oral health and sensory screenings and other activities to more than 300 people. One partner said "lives were saved here today."
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| Nominate Someone for ALVSCE Administrator of the Year
The Division of Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension (ALVSCE) Administrator of the Year Award was created to recognize and honor outstanding achievements and contributions by an administrator in ALVSCE.
This annual award consists of a plaque and a monetary award of $1,000 to be made to the winner’s administrative unit in honor of the recipient. Nominations of candidates for this award may be made by faculty, staff, alumni, students or other administrators in ALVSCE. Nominations for administrators who are not selected will be retained for future consideration by the committee for a total of three years. If you have submitted a nomination in the recent past and would like to add to or edit it, please contact Jean McLain at mclainj@arizona.edu.
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Application for GALS Camp Now Open
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Making Professional Websites with Quarto & RStudio
Professional websites are a useful way to connect and share your work with others. While there are a lot of tools available to create websites, we will show you how to create yours with Quarto. Quarto is a free scientific and technical publishing system for creating documents, presentations, and websites. This platform evolved from R Markdown (though don’t worry if you haven’t heard of either Quarto or R Markdown).
In this workshop, we’ll include the basics of Quarto, and use it to create and customize a website. You will leave this workshop with a published website. This can be used as a personal website, research projects or other endeavors.
Make sure to have all the pre-requisites on the workshop page ready by the workshop! Click here to register.
What: Quarto and RStudio website workshop
When: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, August 23
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Just the FactsLearn how to produce one-page fact sheets using Extension templates
Explore our new Cooperative Extension template library, which includes templates for event flyers, fact sheets, print newsletters and PowerPoint presentations. To guide you through how to use the templates, the Marketing/Communications team set up a series of 45-minute Zoom training sessions – one for each template type – to offer tips to make your outreach more impactful. All of the templates are UArizona branded and specific to Extension, including scores of icons reflecting a range of Extension activities.
What: Template training
When: Noon-12:45 p.m. (Arizona time)
- Fact sheets – Monday, August 28 - Register
- PowerPoint – Monday, September 25 - Register
- Print newsletters – Monday, September 11 - Register
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19th Annual Symposium
The 19th annual Research Insights in Semiarid Ecosystems (RISE) Symposium will be October 21 on the University of Arizona campus.
The objectives of the symposium are to share recent results of research at the USDA-ARS Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed and the University of Arizona Santa Rita Experimental Range, to encourage future research activities at the WGEW and the SRER, and to promote the WGEW and the SRER as outdoor scientific laboratories.
The Symposium will feature invited speakers presenting recent or ongoing research on the WGEW, the SRER or other outdoor laboratories in the region. There is also a student poster competition with monetary awards. Speakers will include Nico Franz describing the NEON Biorepository, Michael Kututwa Johnson describing what we can learn from indigenous ingenuity, Joel Biederman describing early results of a precipitation manipulation experiment, and Betsy Arnold describing the diversity soil microbes and mushrooms.
When: 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, October 21
Where: Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona Marley Building Auditorium (Room 230)
Click here to view the RISE program, register for the symposium, submit poster abstracts or enter the student poster contest, or view talks and posters from past years.
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This year's workshop will revisit Artificial Insemination (AI). The workshop will begin with registration at 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, September 5 (Utah time) at Town Hall, 10 S. 100 W Street, Alton, Utah.
Everyone is welcome to this free workshop with breaks, lunch, and door prizes. Please share the information!
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| Yuma Fall Vegetable IPM Workshop
Join us Wednesday, August 23 to learn about University and industry updates on the latest Integrated Pest Management products and practices. 4.0 AZ ,CA, and CCA CEU credits requested.
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| SNRE Seminar
Dr. Flavie Audoin, candidate for Rangeland Management Extension Specialist Position - Plant-Herbivore Interactions & Targeted Grazing
When: 1:30-2:30 p.m., August 23
Where: ENR2, room N595
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| Grant Writing Workshop
Western Sustainable Agriculture and Research Education (WSARE) will be hosting a grant writing workshop for all SARE grant opportunities.
This cost-free workshop will be hosted at the University of Arizona Maricopa Agricultural Center, 37860 W. Smith Enke Road, Maricopa, Arizona on September 14. The workshop will begin at 10 a.m. and conclude with a Q&A dinner that will end by 6:30 p.m. Both lunch and dinner will be provided and sponsored by the Western SARE Arizona State Implementation program.
Workshop leaders will include Jenna Meeks, WSARE-PDP Coordinator, and Miranda Kersten, WSARE Farmer/Rancher Program Manager. Join us and learn more about WSARE grant opportunities and how to navigate the process of applying for them. Pre-registration is required and can be completed at this link. For more information regarding this workshop, follow this link.
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Job Openings
Assistant/Associate Agent, Agronomy, Pinal County – Cooperative Extension is seeking a self-driven, hard-working, creative, cooperative and dynamic person to serve as the Assistant/Associate Extension agent position for our Agronomy program. This position is continuing-eligible (i.e. comparable to tenure) position, located in Casa Grande, Arizona. The Agent in this position is responsible for developing and delivering science-based Extension programs targeting the production of agricultural crops in the desert southwest. Check out the posting on the UArizona Talent website (#req16939) and share with those you feel meet the qualifications. If you have any questions, contact Anne LeSenne at annelesenne@arizona.edu.
Assistant/Associate Agent (ANR), Pima County – This continuing eligible Assistant/Associate Extension Agent position will work with a dynamic team of professionals developing and delivering community outreach programs that provide research-based, objective informal agriculture and natural resources education in Pima County, Arizona. The primary focus of the position will be to develop and deliver education and assistance to small-scale and urban growers in Pima County. In addition, the agent will engage and collaborate with urban food systems work conducted at the Pima County Cooperative Extension (PCCE), The Garden Kitchen, and 4-H farm-focused youth workforce development at PCCE Tucson Village Farm. The Agent will also oversee the Master Gardener Program located at PCCE as well as other natural resources programming related to the environment and natural systems. In addition to outreach, the agent will develop and conduct applied research, produce scholarly Extension publications, present at conferences and meetings, and pursue grant funding to support research and program work. This position is administratively and programmatically responsible to the County Extension Director and the Director of Arizona Cooperative Extension and is located at Pima County Cooperative Extension. Please visit the UA Talent website for more information or to apply. If you have any questions, please contact Debbie Curley.
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