300 people log in for two UC Davis prelims, followed by the main event
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They reached across the ocean, 5,000 miles away, and delighted in the challenge, the congeniality and the conviviality of the final event in the Eric Conn Memorial Biochemistry Quizzes.
The final, last Wednesday (March 10), not only memorialized a UC Davis plant biochemist, but offered “Zoom fatigue relief” for UC Davis undergraduate students and Cardiff University students, said the organizer and moderator, Walter Leal, UC Davis distinguished professor of molecular and cellular biology.
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Professor Conn (1923-2017), a UC Davis faculty member for 43 years, was the third recipient of the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement. He received the Academic Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1974 and the senate’s highest honor, the Faculty Research Lecturer Award (now called the Faculty Distinguished Resea