Posts Tagged: Thomas and Nina Leigh Distinguished Alumni Seminar
He'll Give the Leigh Distinguished Seminar
It's quite an honor to be singled out to deliver the Thomas and Nina Leigh Distinguished Alumni Seminar, hosted annually by the UC Davis Department of Entomology. This year's recipient is Marc Tatar, an authority on the aging of insects. Tatar, a professor in the Division of Biology and...
Professor Marc Tatar of Brown State University, Providence, R.I., will deliver the Thomas and Nina Leigh Distinguished Alumni Seminar at UC Davis on Dec. 5.
In Pursuit of Ants
Ants are such tiny critters. But they're much more than that. Much more. Ant specialist Brian Fisher, an entomologist with the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, describes ants as "industrious, tenacious workers who live in colonies and obey a hierarchy of rulers." And they're also...
Ants crawl along a vine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)