Designed for students without an engineering background, a new master’s program at UC Davis prepares graduates to meet the rising demand for the workforce across energy, biotech and advanced manufacturing.
The Faculty Fellows Program has selected Assistant Professor Surl-Hee (Shirley) Ahn and Associate Professor Jiandi Wan, who will collaborate with investigators at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on research and workforce development in the fields of energy resilience and battery technology.
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to develop new technologies and workforce training programs to grow plants in low-resource environments both on Earth and in space.
Driven by a desire to cure diseases, Kevin Zhongchao Zhao joins UC Davis as a chemical engineering faculty member who aims to create targeted therapies for cancer by engineering virus-like nanoparticles.
A new Scientific Reports study by UC Davis Coffee Center researchers shows that coffee beans follow a universal color curve during roasting, offering significant implications for the coffee industry and how “light,” “medium” and “dark” roast levels could be more consistently defined.
