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Engineering News
Levent Kavvas Receives Prestigious Civil Engineering Award
Civil engineering professor Levent Kavvas has received the 2009 Ven Te Chow Award, the highest honor awarded a hydrologic engineer by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and its specialty organization, the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI).
Q & A with National Medal of Science winner Bernie Alder
Computational pioneer Berni Alder recently received the National Medal of Science, presented by President Obama at a White House ceremony. UC Davis science writer Andy Fell interviewed the emeritus professor about the experience and about his life in science.
Growing Cartilage from Stem Cells
Damaged knee joints might one day be repaired with cartilage grown from stem cells in a laboratory, based on research by Professor Kyriacos Athanasiou, chair of the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering and his colleagues.
Clubs Put Young Engineers on the Fast Track
Airplanes, race cars, kinetic sculptures, underwater vehicles—the projects are all fascinating challenges for UC Davis student engineers. The College of Engineering supports all this creative activity for good reason: It puts young engineers on the fast track.
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Receives GAANN Fellowship Funding
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science has received a U.S. Department of Education GAANN Award to enhance graduate education. The award provides fellowships totaling $174,208 a year for 3 years, with a match of an additional 25 percent of the total from UC Davis.
New Engineering Faculty Welcomed for 2009-2010
The College of Engineering welcomes nine new faculty members across six departments for 2009-2010.
Pan Receives CAREER Award for Printable Lab-on-a-Chip Research
Tingrui Pan, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research using micro-nanotechnology to create cell-analysis tools with an inexpensive customized Xerox office printer.
Neff Receives CAREER Award For Research in Computer Animation
Michael Neff, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award that recognizes and supports promising junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar. The funding supports Neff's research in creating better computer tools for character animation.