DAVIS--Steve Heydon, senior museum scientist at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, has been named the recipient of a Citation for Excellence Award, a coveted honor awarded annually to outstanding UC Davis staff. The awards are sponsored by the UC Davis Staff Assembly.
Heydon, who began working for the Bohart Museum in 1990, will be honored at the annual Citation for Excellence Awards, set for Thursday, Aug. 2 at the chancellor's residence, the home of Chancellor Linda P. B. Katehi and her husband, Spyros Tseregounis, UC Davis professor of chemical engineering.
Heydon was nominated by communications specialist Kathy Keatley Garvey, UC Davis Department of Entomology; and the Bohart Museum's program representative Tabatha Yang and junior specialist Andrew Richards, with input from colleagues and Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology.
Heydon has one son, James, 11, a frequent visitor to the Bohart Museum. His late wife, Stella Heydon, worked for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and received the 2010 ECE Staff Recognition Award for her excellent work.