- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Ullman, elected to the Section on Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources, focuses her research on the interactions among insects, viruses and plants. She also studies the development of strategies for managing disease-causing microorganisms that are transmitted to plants by insects.
Earlier this month she received the 7000-member Entomological Society of America's distinguished achievement award in teaching at ESA's meeting in Portland, Ore.
AAAS will present each of the 401 new fellows in the Class of 2014 with a certificate and gold-and-blue rosette pin on Saturday, Feb. 14, during the association's annual meeting, to be held in San Jose. UC Davis now has a total of 152 AAAS fellows.
Ullman is the former associate dean for undergraduate academic programs, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and is the co-founder and co-director of the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program.
Highly honored for her work, Ullman was named a fellow of ESA in 2011. She received the UC Davis Chancellor's Achievement Award for Diversity and Community in 2008; the USDA Higher Education Western Regional Award for Excellence in College and University Teaching in 1993; and the Hawaiian Entomology Society Entomologist of the Year Award in 1992, among her many awards.
Ullman joined the UC Davis Department of Entomology (now Entomology and Nematology) in 1995. She served as the department's vice chair from 2001 to 2004, and as the 2004-05 chair. Ullman obtained her bachelor's degree in horticulture from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 1997 and her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis in 1985.
Ullman is one of 11 fellows from the UC Davis Department of Entomology (now the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology) since 1976. Two have since joined other departments and one is deceased. They are:
- Distinguished Professor James Carey, elected in 2011
- Professor Hugh Dingle, elected in 1976
- Professor Rick Karban, elected in 2009
- Professor Walter Leal, (now with the UC Davis Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology), elected in 2005
- Professor and former department chair Donald McLean (1928-2014), elected in 1983
- Professor and former chair Robert Page Jr. (now provost of Arizona State University), elected in 2007
- Professor Jay Rosenheim, elected in 2009
- Distinguished Professor Thomas Scott, elected in 2007
- Distinguished Professor Art Shapiro (now with the UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology), elected in 1987
- Distinguished Professor Frank Zalom, elected in 2011
In addition, Maurice Tauber (1931-2014), an associate of the Department of Entomology and Nematology at the time of his death, achieved AAAS fellow status in 1981.
According to the website, election as a fellow of AAAS is an "honor bestowed upon a member whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished and who has been a continuous member for the four year period leading up to the year of nomination."
Each fellow nomination packet must include a nomination form; a list of the nominee's top ten most significant publications; a comprehensive CV, which includes a complete list of publications; and four from each of the three sponsors.
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See UC Davis news story on the list of six fellows