Posts Tagged: Chancellor Gary May
UC Davis Students Video Their Impressions of Emeriti Presentations
What a great idea! When UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Leal of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology organized and hosted an emeriti celebration honoring professors who recently transitioned to emeriti, he didn't stop when the presentations ended. Leal...
A male monarch butterfly nectaring on Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Legendary Robbin Thorp: A Tribute Well Deserved
When UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Leal created a video tribute honoring the UC Davis faculty who recently transitioned to emeriti, he singled out one very special emeriti as an example of tremendous community, academic and scientific...
The legendary Robbin Thorp in front of an almond tree on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis campus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Magic of a Mural
The magic of a mural! It was quite a celebration during the unveiling of a UC Davis ceramic-mosaic mural, The Secret Life of Vineyards, took place at a Napa Valley organic vineyard. The 10 x 6-foot mural, which graces an outer wall of the Matthiasson Winery on Dry Creek Road, Napa, depicts...
Posing for a celebratory photo are five mural participants with Chancellor Gary May and UC Davis distinguished professor Diane Ullman. From left are Kerry Lin, Sierra Deaver, Alia Tu, Chancellor May, Zoe Meilandt, Lily Nugent and Professor Ullman. (Photo courtesy of Jael Mackendorf, UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Meet Brennen Dyer of the Bohart Museum: An Award-Winning Entomologist
UC Davis entomology alumnus Brennen Thomas Dyer, a Bohart Museum of Entomology laboratory assistant, is fond of wearing insect-themed t-shirts created and designed by Bohart associates. So when the 2018 Paradise fire, known as “The Camp Fire,” destroyed his home, all his...
UC Davis entomologist Brennen Dyer, a lab assistant at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, with UC Davis Chancellor Gary May. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Reaching Across the Ocean, 5000 Miles Away....
They reached across the ocean, 5000 miles away, and delighted in the challenge, the congeniality and the conviviality. The event, the Eric Conn Memorial Biochemistry Games, not only memorialized a UC Davis plant biochemist, but offered “ZOOM fatigue relief” for UC Davis...
UC Davis team leader Catherine Rodriguez answers a question. The answer: (C) Asn. (Screen shot)
Spokesperson Jessie Vaughan of the Cardiff University team is introduced. (Screen shot)
Dr. Dean Blumberg of UC Davis Health fields questions on COVID-19 vaccines. (Screen shot)
Shown on the screen, while the clock is ticking off the time allocated: an overview of the UC Davis campus. The answer to the question: Tyrosine. (Screen shot)
A photo of a Madagascar hissing cockroach from the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology fills the screen as Wynand van der Goes van Naters, a lecturer at Cardiff University, reads the question. The answer: (B) In the C-terminus of S1. (Screen shot)