Posts Tagged: health

Food Waste Project: Emma Vazquez on the Mike!

Over the Thanksgiving holiday week, American consumers tossed out about 200 million pounds of turkey, according to the Natural Resources Defense...

Bruce Hammock and 'Why Science Is Full of Surprises'

It's good to see UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock and his 50-plus years of incredible research in the news. Reporter...

UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock is interviewed by Juliette Smith of Fox40 News. (Screen shot of Hammock in his lab, courtesy of Fox40 News)

UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock is interviewed by Juliette Smith of Fox40 News. (Screen shot of Hammock in his lab, courtesy of Fox40 News)

MSU Soil Scientist to Discuss Nematodes as "Bioindicators of Soil Health and Climate Resiliency'

Nematodes, says soil scientist Christine Sprunger of Michigan State University, East Lansing, are "bioindicators of soil health and...

Soil scientist Christine Sprunger (left) and lab manager of the W. K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS), Michigan State University, collecting soil samples. (Photo courtesy of KBS)

Soil scientist Christine Sprunger (left) and lab manager of the W. K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS), Michigan State University, collecting soil samples. (Photo courtesy of KBS)

From Butterfly Research to High-Sugar Diet Research

What does butterfly metamorphosis have to do with high-sugar diet research? Well, you never know where research will take you. UC Davis...

UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock (seated) with Jun-Yan Liu, professor at Chongqing Medical University, China, and a former research scientist (7.5 years) in the Hammock lab.

UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock (seated) with Jun-Yan Liu, professor at Chongqing Medical University, China, and a former research scientist (7.5 years) in the Hammock lab.

This 2010 image of Jun-Yan Liu shows him as a postdoctoral fellow working in the Bruce Hammock lab. He is now a professor at Chongqing Medical University, China. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This 2010 image of Jun-Yan Liu shows him as a postdoctoral fellow working in the Bruce Hammock lab. He is now a professor at Chongqing Medical University, China. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This archived image (2018) shows UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock (seated) with Hammock lab researcher Sung Hee Hwang (center) and former Hammock lab researcher Guodong Zhang, now on the UC Davis Department of Nutrition faculty. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This archived image (2018) shows UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock (seated) with Hammock lab researcher Sung Hee Hwang (center) and former Hammock lab researcher Guodong Zhang, now on the UC Davis Department of Nutrition faculty. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It All Began with Bruce Hammock's Curiosity

What an incredible story! It all began with insects and an entomology graduate student's curiosity of how caterpillars turn into...

A monarch caterpillar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A monarch caterpillar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A newly eclosed male monarch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A newly eclosed male monarch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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