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This is the mural newly installed in the hallway of the the UC Davis Environmental Horticulture Building. The tiles are the work of top (from left) Heewon Shin, Diane Ullman, and Mai Xiong; center (from left) Jason Hu, Emma Stone, and Analiese Ignacio, and bottom (from left) Anushka Vispute, Gale Okumura, and Leslie Briceno-Marquez.
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UC Davis Mural: 'When Words Are Not Enough'

November 20th, 2020
It's titled When Words Are Not Enough. A newly installed UC Davis mural created by students enrolled in a remote-instructed class on symbolism and design is more than enoughit's considered gorgeous, awesome and amazing.
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A screen shot of the finals at the Virtual Entomology Games. (Image by Jill Oberski)
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UC Davis Entomology Team Makes the ESA Finals

November 18th, 2020
The first sighting of emerald ash borer in North America occurred in 2002, when it was discovered attacking ash trees in Ontario, Canada and what U.S. state? If you answered Michigan, as the UC Davis Entomology Team did, you're right.
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The walnut twig beetle, Pityophthorus juglandis, in association with the fungus, Geosmithia morbida, causes the insect-pathogen complex known as "thousand cankers disease," which wreaks havoc on walnut trees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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UC Davis Forest Entomologists Publish Two Papers on Walnut Twig Beetle

November 10th, 2020
Two UC Davis forest entomologists who studied with the late chemical ecologist Steven Seybold, a faculty-research associate with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, have published two complementary papers on the walnut twig beetle that shed more light on the invasive pest.
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