ESPM undergrad Avery Hardy is part of the UC Berkeley "Unbound" team, which took 2nd place in the EPA's Campus Rainworks Challenge. Their project envisioned a new design for the Wickson Meadow area of Strawberry Creek.
Alum Hope Jahren ('Ph.D. '96) is on Time Magazine's 100 Most Important People list. Listed as one of 21 Pioneers, Jahren is noted as a scientist who is "both a leader in her field and a great writer," who uses her platform to talk about widespread sexual harassment and discrimination in science.
ARE grad student Andrew Stevens and alum Sergio Núñez De Arco (B.S. '95) are featured on Eat This podcast on quinoa, the trendy Andean superfood. Stevens' research focuses on the effect of quinoa price increases on people of the Puno region of Peru. Núñez De Arco is the largest importer of quinoa into the US, and sees quinoa as a method of helping Bolivian farmers out of poverty
ERG grad student Ian Bolliger is featured in this Oakland North article on tiny houses. Bolliger's project Tiny House in my Backyard (THIMBY) is a showcase of efficient low-cost design, with a footprint about the size of two parking spaces. The article discusses where tiny houses such as the THIMBY project currently fit into CA's housing codes.
ESPM alum Hamutahl Cohen (B.S. '11) is featured by UC Newsroom for her work with the Student Organic Garden Association. She has delved into issues around food access for her Global Food Initiative fellowship and is researching bee microbiomes as a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz.
CNR researchers (ESPM professors Jillian Banfield and Ron Amundson, ESPM grad student Kari Finstad (B.A. '09), PMB grad students Alex Hernsdorf and Chris Brown) are featured in the New York Times for their new research that unveiles a new tree of life. Their research redraws the tree originally conceived in the 1970s to account for over 1000 new types of bacteria and Archae that have been discovered over the past 15 years.