Nutrition & Health

The nematode collection displayed at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Sunday, March 6 in the UC Davis Conference Center will feature mostly root-knot nematodes and Ascaris (roundworm) nematodes, according to nematologist Shahid Siddique, assistant professor, and doctoral student A...

BioDivDay is Sunday. March 6 at the UC Davis Conference Center: Can't wait to see you! That's the message the organizers of the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day are spreading throughout social media.

After harvesting and cooking their produce, students ask for seconds of kale How do you get notoriously finicky sixth graders to eat their leafy greens? Have them grow the vegetables themselves.

Despite a recent study suggesting that children drink fewer sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) the longer they participate in the federal Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), new findings from a study conducted with a large sample of WIC-participating families...

Congrats to Professors Diane Ullman and Joanna Chiu of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and UC Davis Distinguished Professor Walter Leal, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and a former chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology.

UC Davis Distinguished Professor Walter Leal of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and a former chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, is the recipient of the Academic Senate's 2022 Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award for his series of webinars educating the public ab...

Entomologists, horticulturists, botanists, anthropologists, paleontologists, nematologists, biologists, ornithologists and other scientists are gearing up for the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, set from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Spanish click here Today, amid a pandemia-battered labor market and a deep crisis across the food industry chain, it is crucial to reduce barriers to employment and pay attention to the problem of sexual harassment.

A pesar de los enormes retos que enfrentan los agricultores en la actualidad, sequa, plagas, escasez de mano de obra y alto costo de la tierra, hay aspectos positivos que estn ocurriendo alrededor de la produccin de alimentos: Hay ms entrenamientos en espaol para los agricultores latinos, un grupo h...

A supportive environment can bring out the best in an individual even for a bird. After an E.coli outbreak in 2006 devastated the spinach industry, farmers were pressured to remove natural habitat to keep wildlife and the foodborne pathogens they can sometimes carry from visiting crops.