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.

UC Davis doctoral alumnus and Cornell University emeritus professor Michael Hoffmann, a noted entomologist and climate change educator, warned of the worldwide disastrous effects of climate change when he delivered the Thomas and Nina Leigh Distinguished Award Seminar recently in the Putah Creek Lodge.

“The goal of climate change now is simply, let’s not make it worse,” he said. “Our goal is to stabilize it…we need to confront climate change, meet it head on…. As they say, there's no Planet B.”