Awards and competitions

Amir Saeidi, assistant professor of teaching in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was selected as one of eight Public Scholarship Faculty Fellows the University of California, Davis Office of Public Scholarship and Engagement announced the 2023-24 cohort on Tuesday.  

Every year, outstanding individuals are recognized for their dedication to guiding and mentoring graduate students. The winners of the 2023 Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award were commended for their unparalleled dedication and commitment to the growth and success of others.

Robert Caligiuri '73, who has been named a 2023 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal winner, would not be where he is today without the late Distinguished Professor of the University of California, Davis, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Amiya Mukherjee.

During an internship in eastern Uganda in 2018, biosystems engineering Ph.D. candidate Ismael Mayanja first had the idea for what would become Badaye Technologies. This month, Badaye Technologies was recognized by Comstock's Magazine as its startup of the month.

Biomedical engineering seniors at the University of California, Davis, have received the 2023 Sandia Engineering Design Award for a capstone project that may transform how doctors treat elevated intracranial pressure, a severe condition where pressure continues to develop in someone’s head due to a tumor, brain infection or neurological injury.

UC Davis doctoral graduate Abby Niesen, M.S. '21, Ph.D. '23 is arguably one of the most productive doctoral students in the history of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and quite possibly the College of Engineering, according to faculty who have been associated with UC Davis for nearly 50 years.

Trevor Price, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, was recently awarded an appointment to Sandia National Laboratories by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research, or SCGSR, Program.

The winning photo illustrates the first-in-human evaluation of novel radionuclides ⁶⁸Ga and ¹⁷⁷Lu to diagnose and treat metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Setareh Rafatirad was announced as a recipient of the 2023 Chancellor's Fellowships for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion by Chancellor Gary S. May and the Academic Senate's Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity.  

PLASMA is a competitive, twelve-week program for students to grow their technology startups at the University of California, Davis. Biomedical engineering undergraduates made up the majority of its 2023 cohort, with one of their teams winning second place for its business idea.