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UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Leal is a newly selected fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Walter Leal Selected Fellow of National Academy of Inventors

December 3rd, 2019
UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Soares Leal, a leading global scientist and inventor in the field of insect olfaction and communication, is a newly selected fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NIA), which honors and encourages academic inventions that benefit society.
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Forest entomologist/chemical ecologist Steve Seybold with doctoral student Jackson Audley at a downtown Davis tree dying of thousand cankers disease. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Steven Jon Seybold: 1959-2019

November 20th, 2019
Noted forest entomologist and chemical ecologist Steven Jon Seybold, a lecturer and researcher with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and a research entomologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Davis, died Friday, Nov.
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Noted honey bee geneticist checking out a bee swarm at the University of Arizona, Tempe.
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Robert Page Jr. to Deliver BrainFood Seminar Nov. 14 at Alumni Center

November 13th, 2019
Internationally recognized honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr., recipient of the 2019 UC Davis Distinguished Emeritus Award, will present a BrainFood Seminar at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 14 in the Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center on The Social Contract: How Complex Social Behavior Evolves.
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