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At the 2016 Championship Linnaean Games, team captain Ralph Washington Jr. (far right) consults wiith fellow team members Emily Bick and Brendon Boudinot. (Photo by Chuck Fazio)
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UC Berkeley-UC Davis Team Wins PBESA Linnaean Games

June 13, 2018
The UC Berkeley-UC Davis Linnaean Games Team, comprised of graduate students from UC Berkeley and UC Davis, won the championship at the regional Linnaean Games hosted by the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America (PBESA) at its meeting June 10-13 in Reno.
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Bruce Hammock
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Bruce Hammock: Keynote Speaker at Fatty Acids/Lipids Conference

May 29, 2018
UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock, who holds a joint appointment with the Department of Entomology and Nematology and the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, will be the keynote speaker at the 13th Biennial Congress of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids...
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The Entomology Band performing! From left are Jill Oberski, Zach Griebenow, Brendon Boudinot, Yao Cai, Wei Lin, Jackson Audley and Christine Tabuloc. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Insect-Attired Doctoral Students Perform as 'The Entomology Band'

May 17, 2018
You've heard such insect-inspired music as Flight of the Bumble Bee, La Cucaracha, Boll Weevil and the The Blue-Tailed Fly, right? But have you ever heard of a song featuring the three-cornered alfalfa hopper, Spissistilus festinus, and another one spotlighting the male insect organ, the aedeagus?
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Doctoral student Maureen Page of the Neal Williams lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is the recipient of a prestigious three-year fellowship, a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, for her research proposal, “Promoting Food Security by Optimizing Wildflower Plantings to Support Wild and Managed Bees.”
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Pollination Ecologist Maureen Page Receives Prestigious 3-Year Fellowship

May 17, 2018
Doctoral student Maureen Page of the Neal Williams lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is the recipient of a prestigious three-year fellowship, a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, for her research proposal, Promoting Food Security by Optimizing Wildflow...
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