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Kimiora Ward: UC Davis Outstanding Award

Staff research associate Kimiora Ward of the Neal Williams lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology, has been selected a recipient of an Outstanding Citation for Excellence, sponsored by the UC Davis Staff Assembly. Ward, a recognized leader in the development of native plants for pollinators and methods for their restoration, will be one of 15 staff members honored Thursday, May 23 at a ceremony at the Gunrock campus pub and restaurant. Chancellor Linda Katehi traditionally pays tribute to the outstanding staff.
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Frank Zalom: Outstanding Mentor

UC Davis entomology professor Frank Zalom, an internationally known integrated pest management (IPM) specialist, is one of this year's   five outstanding mentors on the UC Davis campus, as selected by the Consortium for Women and Research. He was honored at the consortium’s annual spring reception, Wednesday, May 15 in the Recreation Pool Lodge. Others honored were Cecilia Colombi, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Diana Davis, Department of History; Annaliese Franz, Department of Chemistry; and Archana Venkatesan, Department of Comparative literature and religious studies. The outstanding mentor award provides “recognition and research money to faculty who have been outstanding in the mentoring of women graduate students and postdocs at UC Davis,” according to consortium director/sociology professor Laura Grindstaff. -more-  

Tom Scott: Dengue Now Affects Half the World's Population

Dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease known as “breakbone  fever,” is three times more prevalent than originally thought, according to a research paper published April 7 in Nature and co-authored by dengue expert Thomas Scott of UC Davis. An 18-member team, in research titled “The Global Distribution and Burden of Dengue,” said that their estimate of 350 million people infected each year more than triples the World Health Organization’s current estimate of 50 to 100 million. “Dengue takes an enormous toll on human health worldwide, with as many as 4 billion people at risk,” said Scott, professor of entomology at UC Davis and chair of the mosquito-borne disease modelling group in the Research and Policy for Infectious Disease Dynamics (RAPIDD) program. -more-

Louie Yang Receives Prestigious NSF Career Award

Community ecologist Louie Yang, assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Entomology has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award of $600,000. He is one of four young UC Davis faculty members selected for the award. Others are Ken Loh, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who received $400,000; Stephen O'Driscoll, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, who received $400,000; and Ilias Tagkopoulos, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and the UC Davis Genome Center, who received $600,000. Together they received $2 million. -more-

Fran Keller: Exit Seminar on May 29

Fran Keller, doctoral candidate in entomology, will present her exit seminar on Wednesday, May 29 from 12:05 to 1 p.m. in Room 1022 of the Life Sciences Addition, corner of Hutchison and Kleiber Hall drives. Her topic: "Taxonomy of Stenomorpha Solier, 1836 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Asidini." Host is her major professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and UC Davis professor of entomology. 

In the Spotlight

• New Ant Book (free): Photos by Alex Wild
• Bohart Museum Featured in Imperial Valley News Story
• Bruce Hammock Lab in the News: Epoxide Hydrolase Inhibitions
• Nor Cal Entomology Society to Meet May 2 at Laidlaw Facility
• Eric Mussen Interviewed on NPR's Science Friday
• Eric Mussen Quoted in New York Times on Declining Bee Population
• Alex Van Dam: NSF Fellowship
• Robert Kimsey, Alexander Nguyen on KQED Program
• Brittany Nelms Publishes in Journal of Medical Entomology
• Recruitment Under Way for Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology
• UC Davis Entomology Club (Undergraduate)
• Rob Page Authors Book, Spirit of the Hive
• UC Davis to Co-Host World Malaria Day, Bay Area Symposium
• The Butterfly Effect: NCSE Spotlights Work of Art Shapiro
• See Louie Yang's Ecology 180 class blogs
• Guided tours of Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven began March 1, 2013. Contact Christine "Chris" Casey at cacasey@ucdavis.edu.
• Advanced Honey Bee Classes. Bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey's popular queen bee-rearing and instrumental insemination classes pending in this area. See WSU website. Email her at scobey@mac.com for further information.

Newsletters

• Eric Mussen's from the UC apiaries, March/April 2013
• Honey and Pollination Center, May 2013
• Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, Spring 2013

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