Posts Tagged: STEM

UC Davis Puts the 'Bio' in Biodiversity Museum Day

"Bio" means "life" or "living things," and that's just what you'll see on Saturday, Feb. 18 at the sixth annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. You'll see plenty of life and previous life, from bugs to bones--that is, from walking sticks to dinosaur...

Butterfly specimens will be showcased at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Butterfly specimens will be showcased at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Sue Bohannan of Fairfield examines plants in the Botanical Conservatory. She was at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day to lead a Solano County 4-H STEM Project. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Sue Bohannan of Fairfield examines plants in the Botanical Conservatory. She was at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day to lead a Solano County 4-H STEM Project. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Going Native with the Native Bees

If you want to learn more about native bees, mark your calendar for Saturday, April 23.  That's when the Davis Science Collective, a group of STEM graduate students at UC Davis who like to get together and do science outreach in their spare time,...

Male mountain carpenter bee, Xylocopa tabaniformis orpifex, nectaring on salvia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Male mountain carpenter bee, Xylocopa tabaniformis orpifex, nectaring on salvia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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