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Sheila Barry, UCCE livestock and natural resources advisor in the Bay Area, and Stephanie Larson, UCCE livestock and range management advisor in Sonoma County, won the Gold Award for Outstanding Educational Material in the Promotional Materials category from the Association of Natural Resource Exten...

You may not be able to get close enough to take a selfie with a honey bee foraging on your flowers, but you'll be able to take a selfie of a bee at the California Honey Festival. With the costumed bee mascot.

Veterinarians in California and Oregon will soon receive honey bee education as part of a two-year $483,278 grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to principal investigator Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Nio of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

Here's why you should bee-coming to the second annual California Honey Festival, set from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, May 5 in downtown Woodland. Think fun, food, friends, family, and free. The honey-of-an-event--attendance is free--promises to be both entertaining and educational.

It's all the buzz. The second annual California Honey Festival, sponsored by the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center and the City of Woodland, will offer scores of entertainment and educational activities and food and drink from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, May 5 in downtown Woodland.

The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology won two of the six special exhibit awards given at the 104th annual UC Davis Picnic Day, held April 21.

Last week, I held my first California Cattle Grazing School at the UC Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center in Browns Valley. The two-day school, an adaptation of Roger Ingram's long-running California Grazing Academy, included classroom talks and field-based learning activities.

Community ecologist Louie Yang of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is the newly announced recipient of an international award for his outstanding academic advising activities.

This geneticist is creating gene-edited animals for our plates (Ozy.com) Marissa Fessenden, April 29 Animal geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam has six calves that are rather unusual.

(Editor's Note: An indepth story on the UC Davis award winners is pending.