Posts Tagged: Meredith Cenzer

Forget the Soaps: Let's Talk Soapberry Bugs!

A soap opera is usually defined as a drama performed as a serial on daytime TV. But soapberry bugs and the people who study them are much more interesting!  Forget the soaps; let's talk about soapberry bugs and an entomologist at the University of California, Davis, who studies them. And why...

Meredith Cenzer in front of her computer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Meredith Cenzer in front of her computer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Soapberry bugs, Jadera haematoloma. (Photos by entomologist and soapberry expert Scott Carroll of UC Davis)

Soapberry bugs, Jadera haematoloma. (Photos by entomologist and soapberry expert Scott Carroll of UC Davis)

Sudden-Death Question

Quick! What's the answer to this question? "I am a blood feeder; I have no hair but have a comb. What am I?" That was the final question posed when the University of California, Davis competed Monday night with the University of Hawai-Manoa team for the championship of the Linnaean Games, Pacific...

Practicing for the Games

COACH Larry Godfrey, Extension entomologist with the UC Davis Department of Entomology, calls out questions during a practice session. The graduate students (from left) are Matan Shelomi, Meredith Cenzer and Emily Symmes. Not pictured is James Harwood. The team just won the Linnaean Games at the Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America and will now compete in the nationals. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Webcasting

JAMES HARWOOD (right), who webcasts many of the UC Davis Department of Entomology seminars, served on the winning Linnaean team with teammates Emily Symmes, Matan Shelomi and Meredith Cenzer. Here he and graduate student Amy Morice set up a camera for a webcast. Both study with major professor James R. Carey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

BYOB Doesn't Mean What You Think

BYOB doesn't mean what you think it does. Ask any entomology student and it means "Bring Your Own Bug." And that's exactly what the UC Davis Linnaean Team did this morning during an interview with the TV anchors of Good Day Sacramento. By request, the team members brought along their favorite...

Bugs R Us

UC DAVIS Department of Entomology faculty member Larry Godfrey (right) answers questions about bugs. Behind him are Meredith Cenzer and Matan Shelomi. (Photo of Good Day Sacramento TV screen by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

About That Insect...

TV ANCHOR Mark Mathias (left) quizzes Ralph Washington (right) about Madagascar hissing cockroaches. Next to him is Andrew Merwin. (Photo of Good Day Sacramento TV screen by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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