Education & Outreach

Children in Maripá de Minas don’t think of pursuing a higher education, likely because they don’t know what opportunities await them in Brazil or beyond. Isabella Loureiro Muller Costa, a third year Ph.D. candidate at UC Davis and Brazil native, plans to show these students what their future could entail with her outreach efforts.

Engineering in the food industry requires a knowledge of food processes, science, chemical engineering principles and culture. This spring, chemical engineering undergraduate students learned about all four during a guest lecture and Native American cooking demonstration from Café Ohlone, the world’s first and only Ohlone restaurant.

The UC Davis Center for Neuroengineering and Medicine (NE&M) hosted their inaugural Research Symposium in partnership with the UC Davis College of Engineering in June 2022, with more than 80 faculty, students and invited guests attending.

In this episode, Kenneth at Umble Coffee sits down with Professor William Ristenpart, director of the UC Davis Coffee Center, to discuss the efforts that are being made to engineer a better cup of coffee. They explore how the industry is working to reduce the level of waste generated and make better use of the byproducts. Currently, humans only consume around 3% of the coffee cherries that are harvested. That is why the industry is exploring new ways to use those waste materials and enhance the fermentation and roasting processes so that less energy is consumed.

The University of California, Davis and Tecnológico de Monterrey (Tec) established a general institutional agreement of cooperation signed by Joanna Regulska, vice provost and dean of Global Affairs at UC Davis, and Manuel Zertuche, dean of the School of Engineering and Science at Tec de Monterrey, in a virtual ceremony on August 11, 2022.

After only the first lecture on the first day, UC Davis undergraduate Cem Nesiri already knew enrolling in the Quarter at the Aggie Square was the best thing he could have done.

When Dr. Richard Corsi floated an idea on Twitter for a highly effective, inexpensive, DIY air purifier to help lower the risk of COVID, his light-bulb moment went viral in the best possible way. Now many of America’s top scientists—and even the White House—are touting the invention, and people all over the planet are thinking inside the box.

After a two-year hiatus, the UC Davis Drone Academy returned to campus this week for a four-day camp. The academy, which began in 2018 with support from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), serves high school students from under-represented backgrounds. It is co-sponsored by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and the UC Davis Early Academic Outreach Program.

The UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering recently received a $3 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to create a new graduate-level training program that stands to transform the field of neuroengineering.