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Donna Billick: Crossing Disciplines and Borders

Donna Billick with her ceramic mosaic sculpture of a honey bee in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It's a wonderful, well-deserved honor that pays tribute to her amazing talents. Donna Billick,...

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Posted on Friday, December 28, 2012 at 11:11 AM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity and Community (1), Diane Ullman (25), Donna Billick (33), UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program (11)

Unwrapped!

Beneath these weather-protective tarps: bee-box pillars. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

For more than a week, tarps protected the art from the elements. The artists would work on the...

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Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 10:04 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Andrea Wagner (1), Diane Ullman (25), Donna Billick (33), Mark Rivera (2), UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program (11), UC Davis Department of Entomology (2)

'A' Is for Almonds; 'B' is for Bees

Sign at the entrance to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis depicts honey bees, a skep, DNA and almond blossoms. It is the work of Donna Billick of Davis (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It's the Big 4-0 for the Almond Board of California's annual almond industry conference this...

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Posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 10:10 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Almond Board of California (1), almond industry (1), Donna Billick (33), Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility (5)

Prepare to Be Dazzled!

Entomology student Whitney Krupp at work on her display for the show,

Glow-in-the-dark organisms? Art made of fungus? Tales about insects? That will all take place...

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Posted on Friday, December 7, 2012 at 10:15 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Anna Davidson (4), Diane Ullman (25), Donna Billick (33), Organism Show (1), UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program (11)

Adopt a Bug

Kathleen Socolofsky, director of the UC Davis Arboreteum, at a ceremony honoring the donors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Wouldn't you know it, the Argentine ant is among the last to go. Nature's Gallery, a ceramic...

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Posted on Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 10:23 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Diane Ullman (25), Donna Billick (33), Kathleen Socolofsky (1), Nature''s Gallery (2), UC Davis Arboretum (1)

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