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Department of Materials Science and Engineering Earns Top UC Davis Safety Awards

  • by Department of Materials Science and Engineering Earns Top UC Davis Safety Awards
  • October 20, 2025
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Professor Yayoi Takamura’s lab has been named this year’s winner of the Grand Prize for Lab Safety at UC Davis. Undergraduate Lab Manager Bill Doering was also recognized with this quarter’s Safety Star.
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Blog: Good Vibes at My Internship with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • by Jack Hervey
  • October 17, 2025
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At LBNL’s mechanical engineering summer internship, undergraduate student Jack Hervey learned how much he enjoys the hands-on aspects of engineering, from modeling support structures to vibration testing, which involves hitting things with a sledgehammer.
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Federal Contract for up to $40 Million Fuels Research to Revolutionize Clean Indoor Air and Defend Against Next Pandemic

  • by Melody Warnick, Virginia Tech College of Engineering
  • October 16, 2025
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With a contract for up to $40 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an ambitious multi-institutional research team led by Virginia Tech and including researchers at the University of California, Davis, aims to create just such a system.
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New Generation of Co-Directors Lead Research Center in Transportation Solutions

  • by Jessica Heath
  • October 13, 2025
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New co-directors of UC Davis’ AHMCT, Shima Nazari and Iman Soltani, will expand on implementing automation, electrification and AI technologies with Caltrans — building on a 30-year legacy of collaboration, mentorship and smarter transportation solutions.
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A Stretchy Protein Senses Forces in Cells

  • by Andy Fell, UC Davis News & Media Relations
  • October 10, 2025
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How does skin hold you in? How do heart cells beat together? Researchers at the University of California, Davis, Department of Biomedical Engineering, are exploring how structures called desmosomes, which stick cells together, function and react to mechanical stress.

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New Program to Prepare Local High School Students for Leadership in Biotechnology

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New Generation of Co-Directors Lead Research Center in Transportation Solutions

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From Labs to Lives

How Research Funding Solves Real-World Problems
Below, our engineering researchers describe the impact of their work, and the consequences if federal support for this cutting-edge research were reduced or eliminated.
 
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Groundbreaking Imaging Technology Created through Federal Funding

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering Simon Cherry co-developed the world’s first total-body PET scanner, thanks to support from the National Institutes of Health. With its increased image clarity and low radiation doses, the technology has transformed how doctors diagnose and treat conditions, such as cancer and heart disease. 

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Kent Leach
Federal Support of Biomedical Research Invests in Health of Americans, National Economy

Professor of Biomedical Engineering Kent Leach's NIH-funded lab develops biomaterials to help the body heal damaged bone, crucial innovations for the 1 in 2 American adults with a musculoskeletal disorder. In 2034, when seniors will outnumber children in the U.S., these breakthroughs will have significant implications for the national economy. 

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Vladimir Filkov
Federally Funded Open Source Software Project Crucial to World Infrastructure

In a recent Labs to Lives video, Professor of Computer Science Vladimir Filkov details his multidisciplinary NSF-funded initiative, which develops AI algorithms and software analysis tools to help open-source software projects stay on sustainable trajectories. These projects are an integral part of innovation in the digital landscape.  

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‘Jelly Ice’ Is a Weird New Kind of Ice That Never Melts

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An astronaut called a satellite ‘impossible.’ With UC Davis, he’ll help launch it

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Cristina Davis Receives Career Achievement Award
At the 2025 International Association of Breath Research Summit, the professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering was presented with the Anton Amann Award. The award is given to scientists, engineers or physicians who have made an outstanding contribution to the field of breath research.
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Alum Raises $9.2M for Sacramento-Based Medical AI Startup
Tanishq Abraham, who received his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of California, Davis, at the age of 19 in 2023, is a co-founder of Sophont. The company builds open source foundational AI models for medical use cases, such as understanding brain scans, pathology and clinical text.
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Thrilling Progress in Brain-Computer Interfaces from UC Labs
Tyler Singer-Clark, a Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering, shone a spotlight on twenty years of UC Davis research to restore speech to those with paralysis. He also discussed his work to enable control of a computer mouse with the same brain-computer interface. “Users don’t have to choose between speech or computer control,” he said.

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