Posts Tagged: crowdfunding
Gearing Up for UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: Crowdfunding Is First
This is a winter event you won't want to miss. The event: The 13th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a Super Science Day. It's an opportunity to see scientists in action. It's day when you can visit such biological museums or collections as the Phaff Yeast Culture Collection, Bohart...
Crowdfunding is underway for the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day.
At the 12th annual Biodiversity Museum Day, children delighted in the science at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Professor, entomologist and UC Davis doctoral alumna Fran Keller, seen here in the Bohart Museum of Entomology, discusses black widow spiders during the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Honey Bee 'High Five'
"Honey bees contribute nearly $20 billion to the value of U.S. crop production," according to the American Beekeeping Federation's Pollination Facts. "This contribution, made by managed honey bees, comes in the form of increased yields and superior quality crops for growers and American consumers....
A honey bee gives a "high five." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Let's Help the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day/Month by Feb. 28
The volunteers--faculty, staff and students--who are presenting science-based information during the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Month are doing an amazing job. As you may remember, over the last nine years, this event was a single day, the Saturday of Presidents' Day weekend when...
Entomologist Jeff Smith, a volunteer, curates the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) section at the Bohart Museum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum specimens include the Xerces blue butterfly, Glaucopsyche xerces, now extinct. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)