The Graduate Research Fellowship Program is the oldest program of its kind that directly supports STEM graduate students in the United States, recognizing exceptional individuals who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees.
Department Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering Steve George has been named the Edward Teller Chair for the University of California, Davis College of Engineering.
The Hiruma/Wagner Award celebrates early career researchers who provide outstanding presentations at the Peace Through Mind/Brain Science conference in Hamamatsu, Japan — an event that has sought to bring greater world peace through a deeper understanding of the human mind and brain chemistry since 1988.
A group of UC Davis students carpooled to Nevada last month to compete in the Associated Schools of Construction, or ASC, 2023 Student Competition and Construction Management Conference and came back with a second-place win in the sustainable building competition.
Four College of Engineering faculty members were among those honored with 2023 Academic Senate and Academic Federation awards when laurels were announced this week. The Academic Senate and Academic Federation will hold a joint awards reception in the spring, with details to be announced at a later date.
The College of Engineering is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Graduate Student Excellence Awards: Isabella Loureiro Muller Costa, Peifen Lyu, Patrick Cunningham, and Tanner Finney.
Michael Hurlston, B.S. '88, M.S. '91 in electrical and computer engineering, received the Cal Aggie Alumni Association Outstanding Alumnus Award the organization announced on March 2. This year is the 50th anniversary of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association, or CAAA, honoring the achievements and impact of outstanding alumni and friends of UC Davis.
Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. candidate Cassondra Brayfield was named a recipient of the Cadence Diversity in Technology Scholarship under its Women in Technology program. Brayfield was selected based on leadership skills, recognition of accomplishments, endorsement from professors, and drive to shape the world of technology.
UC Davis College of Engineering double major, fourth-year student Sabrina Yarzada has been named a 2022 Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Distinguished Undergraduate Award recipient—making her the first person from UC Davis to win this prestigious international award.
Bangyan Huang, a second-year doctoral student at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was recently awarded first place in the 2022 Christopher J. Thompson Best Student Paper Award for his oral presentation “Statistical Image Reconstruction of Positron Lifetime via Time-Weighting (SIMPLE).” Huang received the award at the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, which was held both online and in Milan, Italy in November 2022.
