Outreach Events and Activities

Our big outreach activity for the year is Cal Day, a campus-wide open house. Graduate students, staff, and faculty welcome members of the community with talks, bug hunts, and displays of insects around the world, insects of California, insects as food, insect art and much more. Cal Day this year will be Saturday, April 12th 2008.

Graduate students also participate in Bug Day at Randall Museum in San Francisco. Geared toward grade school kids, this event features cockroach races, insect petting zone, insect art, and many displays.

Graduate student Allison Purcel leads a CalDay bug hunt, a mother and daughter check out an Essig Museum display.

Kids wait in line at CalDay for graduate student Ainsley Seago to paint their faces.

Graduate students Caterina Nerney (left) and Paul Cross (right) help kids create insect art at CalDay.

Graduate student Nicole VanderSal races beetles and roaches in the "arthropod speedway" (left). Professor Alexander Purcell explains how insects feed on plants while leading a CalDay bug hunt.

Graduate student Pete Oboyski looks at insects collected on a field trip to Sagehen Natural Reserve with students from Pittsburg High School (left). A Pittsburg High student checking her catch at Sagehen as part of the UC GK-12 program.

Students from Richmond High School collect insects and spiders at the Berkeley campus as part of the UC Berkeley GK-12 program that puts graduate students in local schools to teach about science and research.

Graduate student Sean Schoville gives a tour of the UC Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology to Richmond High School students. Pittsburg High School students sketch insects during a tour of the Essig Museum of Entomology.

For questions or comments regarding this website contact: Pete Oboyski :: Last updated: April 2004