Marshall McMunn, assistant professor of teaching and coordinator of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's 2025-26 seminars, has announced the fall seminar schedule.

Seminars will begin on Monday, Oct. 1 and will take place on Mondays at 4:10 p.m.  in Room 122 of Briggs Hall. The exception: the Thomas and Nina Leigh Alumni Seminar, which will be held in the UC Davis Student Community Center. See information below.)

UC Davis alumna Hannah Burrack, professor and chair of the Department of Entomology at Michigan State University since 2022 and recipient of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology’s 2025 Thomas and Nina Leigh Distinguished Alumni Award, will be honored at a seminar and dinner on Monday, Oct. 6.

Her public lecture is at 4 p.m. in the multipurpose room of the UC Davis Student Community Center. It will be followed by a reservations-only dinner.

The UC Davis Bee Haven will be part of the 2026 campuswide UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, set Saturday, Feb. 21.

The new inclusion means that the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology will contribute three museums or collections to the Biodiversity Museum Day: 

Joseph Tauzer, manager of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, drew widespread applause when he accepted a service award from Chancellor Gary May at the UC Davis Staff Assembly’s Citation of Excellence Program.

The event took place Sept. 10 at the chancellor's residence.

Noted UC Davis forensic entomologist Robert “Bob” Kimsey, a past president of the North America Forensic Entomology Association (NAEA), will join seven death industry experts at the Vacaville Museum’s “Art of Death” panel discussion on Thursday, Sept. 18.

Professor Jason Bond of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology is completing a project at the National Institute of Biology (NIB), Slovenia, as part of his Fulbright Specialist Program award.

The Bohart Museum of Entomology has announced its schedule of open houses and special events for the 2025-26 academic year.

The open houses. free and family friendly, are held on weekends at the Bohart base, Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane, UC Davis campus. Admission and parking are free.

The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, is showing several insect-themed displays in the Vacaville Museum’s six-month-long gallery exhibit, “The Art of Death," underway through Nov. 15 at 213 Buck Ace., Vacaville.

The Bohart Museum, home of a global collection of eight million insect specimens, is sharing educational information involving multiple insect species, as well as the specimens.

Staff research associate Joseph Tauzer, who manages the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility and who serves three labs within the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is a winner in the UC Davis Staff Assembly's coveted 2025 Citations of Excellence Awards Program.

A Staff Assembly panel selected Tauzer for the No. 2 award in service awards category. He will receive $1000 cash prize and special recognition at the Staff Assembly Awards Ceremony, set Wednesday, Sept. 10 at the residence of UC Davis Chancellor Gary May.

Meet UC Davis doctoral alumnus Marshall McMunn, one of the newer members of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT) faculty.

McMunn, who joined the ENT faculty in October of 2023, is an assistant professor of teaching, skilled in field biology instruction and data analysis, with key interests in technology-enhanced learning and equity in education.