Nutrition & Health

A newly published book on biodemography by James R. Carey of UC Davis and Deborah A. Roach of the University of Virginia effortlessly sets the standard as the definitive text for the important, emerging field of biodemography, according to a prominent entomologist.

He says it well. Jefferson Wright, the eighth grader at Emerson Middle School, Davis, who is pictured on the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day website, says: "I have always liked museum day and every year it gets better and better.

'Tis the season of giving, and the ninth annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, set for Saturday, Feb. 15, needs donors. Make that "urgently needs donor pledges." The pledge deadline of Jan. 6 looms. The free, science-based public event drew more than 4,000 visitors in 2019.

The ninth annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a free public event showcasing 13 museums or collections, urgently needs sponsors to pledge by Jan. 6, organizers said today. The event, to be held Saturday, Feb.

Postdoctoral researcher Antoine Abrieux of France, an international scholar in the Joanna Chiu lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is one of two recipients of an Innovator Fellow Award from the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health (IIFH).

Mark your calendars. You and your family and friends will soon be in for an entertaining and educational time. And it's free.

A small edible garden has started in the Eastside neighborhood of Riverside with funding from the City of Riverside's Small Spark Community Development Block Grant.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture has declared a quarantine following the detection of Huanglongbing (HLB) in multiple residential citrus trees in Corona (Riverside County). This is the first time HLB has been detected in Corona.

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