Students

Congratulations to Bipin Kumar, a postdoc in Professor Ning Pan’s lab, who won the UCD Award for Postdoctoral Research Excellence 2015-2016!

Dr. Bipin Kumar (R), is a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellow and started working in Dr. Pan’s group in September of 2014.  His research focuses on biomedical applications of memory polymers.

Congratulations to Sanliang Zhang, who’s project, Super Lithium Technology, placed in the top 5 of 42 entries.  In addition, the project won the Clean Tech Award!

Sanliang worked on the project with Colin Lewis, a Fiber and Polymer Science major.  Dr. Ning Pan was the faculty leader for the project.

Marianne Scokzek wrote the following about it for the UC Davis News website:

Thuy Tuong Nguyen, a postdoc in Professor David Slaughter’s lab, won the Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research, presented by the department of Graduate Studies. This award is offered to recognize the vital role that Postdoctoral Scholars play in maintaining the reputation of excellent research at the University of California, Davis.

Congratulations to Amanda Hildebrand, a PhD student in Biological Systems Engineering, who was named recipient of the 2016 Kinsella Memorial Prize by the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences.

The ASABE California-Nevada Section meeting on February 10 in Tulare attracted a good turnout.

Congratulations to the graduate student teams and their advisors for their winning entries in the poster competition.  First and second prizes in the graduate poster category were awarded to:

Congratulations to former undergrad Josh Goldschmid, who’s now a PhD candidate at Missouri University of Science and Technology.  He was honored with the Steven M. Atkins Ability and Achievement in Science, Engineering, and Technology (AASET) Award during the SAE International AeroTech Engineering Congress held recently in Seattle.

Read more about Josh’s award here.

BAE undergraduate Mitchell McCarthy is making news!  He was recently on the cover of the Sacramento Bee, and is featured in a UC Davis video.

McCarthy is involved in work on a mobile chicken coop, to transport pasture-raised chickens to various farms where they can be of use.  The project is a collaboration between several departments, and is led by Deb Niemeier of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Maurice Pitesky of Veterinary Medicine, and our own Jean VanderGheynst of BAE.

UC Davis biological and agricultural engineering (BAE) graduate student Lauren Jabusch seems to be everywhere these days.

Akshata Mudinoor, Maria Cardona, Nardrapee Karuna, Chris Roberts and Scott Strobel are graduate and undergraduate students in the Jeoh Lab, and make up team Sensozyme in this year’s Big Bang! Business competition held by the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.  The team is one of five finalists in the annual competition, which provides a forum for the UC Davis community to collaborate, develop and test business visions and plans.  The winner of the competition receives $10,000.

BAE grad student Lauren Jabusch has been elected as a recipient of the Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity and Community for 2014-2015 in the Graduate Student category.  This award recognizes  contributions in enhancing inclusiveness and diversity within the campus community.