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PPE: personal protective equipment
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PPE in short supply for farm work during the COVID-19 crisis

April 23, 2020
By Pamela S Kan-Rice, Whitney B Brim-Deforest
While most Californians are staying home to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, California farmers, farmworkers and other agricultural professionals are out in the fields and packing houses working to produce food.
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UC ANR COVID-19 Update: End of year funds

April 23, 2020
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
End of year funds UC ANR leadership has made the difficult decision that due to the current and projected financial demands on ANR resources related to the COVID-19 situation, all unspent FY 19/20 funds from ANR centrally allocated sources (across the entire Division) as of 6/30/20 will not be carri...
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4-H Families Sew Masks for their Community

April 16, 2020
4-H families have been working hard sewing cotton masks for nurses, essential workers, and friends and family! Now that home sewn fabric masks are required in Sonoma County, and N95 masks are reserved for first responders, we are busy sewing up a storm.
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Materials used, cutting the face sheild
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4-Hers 3D Print Face Shields to Help with Shortages

April 13, 2020
By Steven Worker
Golden Hills 4-H club volunteer project leader, Jemetha Cosgrove, and her two children, aged 12 and 7, repurposed their 3D printing equipment part of a 4-H AgTech project to make face shields to help in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Garrett Keating, recipient of Department Citation from the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology for outstanding work.
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Spotlight on Outstanding Student Entomologist: Garrett Keating

April 8, 2020
Senior entomology major Garrett Keating, who performs microbiome/pollinator experiments in the laboratory of community ecologist Rachel Vannette, is the recipient of a Department Citation from the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology for his outstanding work.
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Mapping COVID19: a technology wrap-up

April 8, 2020
Hello everyone, I hope you are all healthy, safe, sane, and if possible, being productive. Here I provide a summary of some of the mapping technology that has been used in the past few weeks to understand the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 map-based data dashboards.
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COVID-19 Resources
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Mapping COVID19: a brief technology overview

April 8, 2020
By Andrew J Lyons, Shane T Feirer, Maggi Kelly
Hello everyone, we hope you are all healthy, safe, sane, and being as productive as possible. Here we provide a summary of some of the mapping technology that has been used in the past few weeks to understand the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This is the coronavirus-equipped mantis that's drawing lots of smiles in the Davis front yard of entomologists Robert and Lynn Kimsey of UC Davis. (Photo by Lynn Kimsey)
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Ever Seen a Coronavirus-Equipped Mantis?

April 6, 2020
Sometimes you just have to display your sense of humor. Take the case of a huge praying mantis sculpture that anchors the Davis, Calif., front yard of entomologists Robert and Lynn Kimsey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
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