With the prestigious early-career faculty grant, the assistant professor of chemical engineering will investigate complex fluid dynamics of microscopic particles and support underrepresented transfer students in their STEM education.
In 2008, John Bissell, a senior in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, and a group of his peers were encouraged by Frank Loge, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, to enter a project into the Environmental Protection Agency's People, Prosperity and the Planet Award.
Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, Distinguished Professor in the University of California, Davis, Department of Chemical Engineering, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement by a Woman Chemical Engineer by the American Institute of Chemical Engineering.
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.
Patrick Negulescu is the 2023 recipient of the College of Engineering's Jeffery C. Gibeling Master's Thesis Excellence Award. Negulescu completed his Master of Science degree in chemical engineering in 2022 and was supervised by Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering Karen McDonald and adjunct professor Somen Nandi.
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.
Scott Mauger, M.S. ’10, Ph.D. ’13 was one of two NREL scientists recognized at this year’s International Society of Coating Science and Technology (ISCST) Symposium for their contributions to coating science and technology.
Mauger—a scientist in the Thin Film and Manufacturing Science Group within the Materials Science Center at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL)—received the L.E. Scriven Young Investigator Award, a prestigious recognition awarded to early-career researchers for outstanding achievements in continuous liquid film coating science and technology.
Chemical engineer and microbiologist Priya Shah has been awarded $40,000 for her project that unravels the essential aspects of arbovirus replication, and aims to thwart a major source of emerging disease by identifying novel therapeutic targets.
Matt McNulty, Ph.D. ’22 is this year’s recipient of the UC Davis Graduate Studies Allen G. Marr Prize for dissertation excellence. McNulty is a cutting-edge researcher in plant molecular farming and a founder of the emerging field of space systems bioengineering with a passion for helping others.
Dr. Jovana Veselinović is the 2022 recipient of the College of Engineering's Zuhair A. Munir Award for best doctoral dissertation. She conducted groundbreaking interdisciplinary work on using nanoporous gold to detect biomarkers of disease while falling in love with Davis. She is the third straight chemical engineer to receive the honor.