ESPM alum Stephanie Lepp (MS '08) is featured in this California magazine article about her podcast Reckonings, which consists of interviews between Lepp and people who want to make amends for past misdeeds and mistakes. Lepp, who currently works as a corporate consultant in her field, sees Reckonings as a compelling and public audio experience around personal insights that lead to transformation.
90.3kazu, NPR for Monterey, Salinas, & Santa Cruz | February 11, 2016
PMB Professor Tom Bruns is quoted in this article about the Santa Cruz Mycoflora Project, an online database of all mushroom species in the county. Bruns commented that this basic research is extremely important because fungi research has such great gaps that it's difficult to know the useful potential of many species.
Nature World News | February 09, 2016
ESPM Professor Tsutsui's research on recognition behaviors in Formica ants is featured in this article. Enslaved Formica worker ants are more genetically and chemically diverse and less aggressive towards non-nest mates than free-living Formica ant colonies, according to his new study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. [JH: Note 2 URLS, 2nd redirects to research article --->]
California magazine | February 09, 2016
ARE alum Doug Parker (Ph.D. '90) is featured in this California magazine article about how spring's seemingly early onset does not mean El Nino is over. Emphasizing the need for more precipitation, Parker stresses the need for a new water ethic and increased groundwater management. Parker, currently director of the California Institute for Water Resources, is a former Berkeley UCCE specialist.
The Guardian (US ed) | February 02, 2016
ESPM Professor Dara O'Rourke, a leading expert on global supply chains, will be leading Amazon's new Sustainability Science team as a senior principal scientist. Amazon has never published a sustainability report, but expects its sustainability operation to grow significantly this year.
Ensia | January 28, 2016
BFI Center for Diversified Farming Systems fellow and ESPM PhD student Maywa Montenegro published an Ensia article discussing how gene editing offers dramatic advances in speed, scope, and scale of genetic improvement, while offering an opportunity for more nuanced GMO governance.
Daily Californian | January 22, 2016
PMB professor Anastasios Melis is quoted in this Daily California article about Berkeley Lab's recent study detailing how chlorophylls can transfer energy very quickly. Melis states that the study "represents a more realistic visualization of the actual early events in photosynthesis."
Public Health Online | January 15, 2016
NST's nutrition program was recently ranked #2 in the country! The wide-ranging curriculum looks at everything from how nutrients get to cells to diet-related diseases. Graduates interested specifically in dietetics go on to become registered dieticians or work in food production, food service and more.
The Nature of All Things (Canadian TV show) | November 01, 2015
ESPM professor Katharine Milton and Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) professor Bruce Ames were featured in a Canadian TV Show, The Nature of All Things. In the episode, The Curious Case of Vitamins and Me, Milton discusses the loss of the ability to synthesize vitamin C in all anthropoids including humans and implications of this loss for humans today and in the recent past.