Posts Tagged: AAAS

The Good, the Sad and the Bad

It's been a good-news-sad-news-bad-news kind of day. Professor Frank Zalom (right) an integrated pest management (IPM) specialist with the UC Davis Department of Entomology for three decades, was among the 503 people selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...

Frank Zalom

PROFESSOR Frank Zalom, noted integrated pest management (IPM) specialist, in a strawberry field in Watsonville during an agricultural field day. (Courtesy Photo)

'A Nose for Insects' Sense of Smell'

"He is slim and intense, with graying hair and clipped sentences jagged with inflections from his years in Brazil and Japan. And he does not, perhaps cannot, quit." So wrote freelance journalist Carrie Peyton Dahlberg, formerly with the Sacramento Bee, in her excellent profile of chemical...

Walter Leal

CHEMICAL ECOLOGIST Walter Leal, professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, working in his lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Double Honor

It's quite an honor to be elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). And it's a double honor when two persons from the same department at the same university receive the honor the very same year. That's what happened today. Professors Richard "Rick"...

Jay Rosenheim

JAY ROSENHEIM, shown here talking to a colleague at a meeting of the Entomological Society of America, is a newly elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He joined the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty in 1990. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Rick Karban

RICK KARBAN, known for his work on plant-herbivore interactions, is a newly elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He joined the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty in 1982.

Read more