Posts Tagged: graduate student

Lawn-pocalypse! Surviving Drought

Ah, summer! The season of sunburns, pool parties, and… lawn droughts. If your once lush, green carpet now looks like a crunchy brown doormat, you're not alone. Let's dive into why your yard is staging a dramatic death scene and what you can do to...

Bermuda grass and weeds overtaking drought stressed turf grass.

A patch of former lawn, mostly dead, with a few green weeds and Bermudagrass

Deniz Inci, WSSA graduate student of the month

From the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) Graduate Student Organization newsletter (Feb. 2024) * * * * * * Graduate Student of the Month Deniz Inci, Ph.D. Candidate with the Al-Khatib Lab at UC Davis, is the Weed Science Society of America...

The Beatles vs. The Beetles: This T-Shirt Never Fails to Draw Smiles

Remember the celebrated image of George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon crossing Abbey Road in single file outside their studios in London?   It's the cover of their final album, "Abbey Road," released...

A close up of the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association's all-time best-selling T-shirt, "The Beetles." Each image bears the family name: Phengogidae, Curculionidae, Cerambycidae and Scarabaeidae.

A close up of the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association's all-time best-selling T-shirt, "The Beetles." Each image bears the family name: Phengogidae, Curculionidae, Cerambycidae and Scarabaeidae.

How to Have a 'Buggy' Holiday Season

Want to have a "buggy" holiday season? And ensure others do, too? There's plenty to love and purchase in the Bohart Museum of Entomology gift shop and on the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA) website. EGSA members design...

Doctoral students Mia Lippey (right) and Iris Quayle show some of the EGSA T-shirts for sale. Lippey is EGSA president, and Quayle, treasurer.

Doctoral students Mia Lippey (right) and Iris Quayle show some of the EGSA T-shirts for sale. Lippey is EGSA president, and Quayle, treasurer.

A stuffed toy animal (mosquito) available at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. It comes complete with viruses.

A stuffed toy animal (mosquito) available at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. It comes complete with viruses.

Some of the T-shirt designed by members of the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association. The shirts are for sale on the EGSA website.

Some of the T-shirt designed by members of the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association. The shirts are for sale on the EGSA website.

Insect and Arachnid-Inspired T-Shirts Are All the Fashion

Love insects and arachnids? Members of the Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA)  of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology design insect and arachnid-themed T-shirts that are all the fashion. The critters climb, crawl,...

UC Davis doctoral students Iris Quayle (left) of the Jason Bond lab and Mia Lippey of the labs of UC Davis distinguished professor Jay Rosenheim and assistant professor Emily Meineke, show some of the EGSA T-shirts. Lippey serves as EGSA president, and Quayle as treasurer.

UC Davis doctoral students Iris Quayle (left) of the Jason Bond lab and Mia Lippey of the labs of UC Davis distinguished professor Jay Rosenheim and assistant professor Emily Meineke, show some of the EGSA T-shirts. Lippey serves as EGSA president, and Quayle as treasurer.

These are some of the T-shirts that EGSA sells as part of their year-around fundraising project.

These are some of the T-shirts that EGSA sells as part of their year-around fundraising project.

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