Awards & Recognition

Fourth-year Chemical Engineering Ph.D. Candidate Jared Stimac recently received a Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award. The award supports graduate students to conduct part of their thesis research at a DOE national lab while providing them training and access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources.

Chemical Engineering Distinguished Professor Bruce Gates was recently elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Being elected an NAI Fellow is the highest professional distinction given to inventors in academia. It highlights academic inventors whose outstanding inventions have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and societal welfare.

The UC Davis Department of Chemical Engineering celebrates the careers of Professors Marjorie Longo and Ronald Phillips and Distinguished Professor Robert Powell, who all retired this summer. In over 90 combined years at UC Davis, they made an indelible impact on their fields, on the college and the university, and on the many students they taught and mentored. Their careers are remembered below:

Chemical engineering assistant professors Matthew Ellis, Harishankar Manikantan and Priya Shah were all named 2020-21 UC Davis Hellman Fellows.

Assistant professor of teaching Glaucia Helena Carvalho do Prado joined UC Davis in fall 2021, energized by the opportunity to connect with the diverse campus and share her background in food engineering to show students how to apply their skill sets to a variety of fields.