TopicsAugust 8, 2023
- Message from the Associate Vice-President and Director of Extension
- Congrats to the 2023 Friends of Extension Award Recipients
- Check Out Our Needs Assessment Dashboard
- Welcome Our Extension Newcomers
- Making Professional Websites with Quarto & RStudio
- Application for GALS Camp Now Open
- Time to Update Your Outreach Materials?
- Job Openings
- Photos from the Extension Annual Conference
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Message from the Associate Vice-President and Director of Extension
Last week’s Extension Conference was a great success. Although having the conference on campus meant a few more steps outdoors, I think everyone enjoyed seeing the campus, seeing the changes in the buildings, and reminding themselves that they are part of a much greater whole.
I want to thank University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins for visiting with us and sharing his support for Extension’s great work around the state. I also want to thank Vice-President Shane C. Burgess, Dean of the College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Science, for attending. As he mentioned, this is one of the conferences he enjoys attending because he gets an update on what is happening across the state, and it allows him to visit and catch up with Extension personnel.
Finally, thanks to Susan and Ashley and the entire conference committee, the people behind the conference committee, and then the people we never see but who we all know do so much. Great conferences do not happen on their own, and we appreciate everyone’s effort in making this conference one of our best!
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Ron and Laura James with Dr. Ed Martin, state Director of Extension
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| Congrats to the 2023
Friends of Extension Award Recipients
Ron and Laura James received the award at our Annual Extension Conference last week with a standing ovation from their Extension friends.
In 2012, they helped the university purchase Henry Dahlberg's Camp on top of Mingus Mountain to serve as the heart and hub of Arizona's 4-H Youth Development Program. Since then, the Harold and Mitzie James 4-H Camp & Outdoor Learning Center has served as the premier place for youth from across Arizona to grow as leaders, learn how to respect nature, and form lifelong friendships.
We appreciate all the James family has done for the university, our college, our division, and Cooperative Extension. We are honored to call James family, Friends of Extension.
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The dashboard allows users to examine data by age, county, income level and more.
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Be sure to Check Out OurNeeds Assessment Dashboard
With the dashboard, you can explore how priorities differ among groups – such as rural, older, or low-income residents – across Arizona's 15 counties. The data can help inform programming decisions. Anyone can access the dashboard by completing this online form. See the Cooperative Extension needs assessment page to learn more about the 2022 needs assessment survey that led to the dashboard.
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Welcome Our Extension Newcomers
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Melanie Shea Austin Cantu is the new Associate Specialist in Extension in the School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness. She will be Director for the statewide Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education and Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program. Shea comes to us from the Tennessee State University Cooperative Extension, wherre she was director of the Community Nutrition Education Program, including SNAP–Ed and EFNEP.
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Rodolfo Martinez Morales is the new Director, Santa Cruz County Cooperative Extension, and Associate Agent, ANR and Horticulture. Rodolfo comes to UArizona from Rainbow Acres, a facility he co-founded that provides housing and life-enriching education programs to people with developmental disabilities in a ranch-stytle setting. Before that, Rodolfo was the Invasive Species Coordinator at the Yavapai-Apache Nation, where he helped control or eliminate invasive plants.
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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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Application for GALS Camp Now Open
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Time to Update
Your Outreach Materials?
Explore our new Cooperative Extension template library, which includes event flyer, fact sheet, newsletter and PowerPoint templates. Starting Monday we’ll host 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 specific to Extension, including scores of icons reflecting a range of Extension activities.
What: Template training series
When: All sessions are noon-12:45 p.m. (AZ time)
- Event flyers, Monday, August 14 - Register
- Fact sheets, Monday, August 28 - Register
- Print newsletters, Monday, September 11 - Register
- PowerPoint, Monday, September 25 - Register
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Job Opening
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
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| Extension Annual Conference
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