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Walter Leal is a newly inducted member of Gamma Sigma, Delta, the international honor society of agriculture. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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DAVIS— Chemical ecologist Walter Leal, professor and chair f the University of California Department of Entomology and widely known for his research on how insects detect smells, is among the newly inducted members of the international Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society of agriculture.
Leal researches sensory physiology-based approaches aimed at the discovery of novel attractants. His most recently published research, with UC Davis genetics researcher Deborah Kimbrell, showed that genetically engineered fruit flies responded to the silkworm moth scent of a female.
Leal and 28 others selected for membership, including A. G. Kawamura, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, were inducted at the Davis chapter’s sixth annual banquet, held Dec. 7 in the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center, UC Davis.
Gamma Sigma Delta includes chapters at 53 land-grant universities and colleges throughout the United States. The honor society began enrolling members on an international scope in 1957.
UC Davis affiliates inducted at the banquet:
Karen Klonsky, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Michael Delwiche, Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Michael Plesha, Chemical Engineering
Charles Bamforth, Glenn Young and Moshe Rosenberg, Food Science and Technology
Terrence Nathan and Daniel Geisseler, Land, Air and Water Resources
Daniel Potter and John Yoder, Plant Sciences
Virginia Hinshaw, provost and executive vice chancellor
Barbara Horwitz, vice provost, academic personnel
Rowena Romano, Biological Systems Engineering
William Lucas and Jean Shepard, Plant Biology
John Pascoe, School of Veterinary Medicine
Nicole Sadler, Plant Pathology
Andrew Waterhouse, Viticulture and Enology
The faculty-governed Gamma Sigma Delta, founded in 1905 at Ohio State University, is comprised of faculty, alumni, students and professionals in agriculture and related fields, all selected for outstanding accomplishments in scholarship, research, teaching and/or extension.
Gamma Sigma Delta translates in Greek to “The binding together of earth, the mother of all, and the practice of agriculture, and the arts relating thereto for the welfare of mankind.”
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