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By Tyler Barzee

Congratulations to Biomilitus, a team comprised of BAE grad students, a BAE researcher, and a Department of Entomology grad student student, for winning big in the UCDavis Big Bang! Business Competition.  The team won six awards at the competition, including the People’s Choice Award, $7,500; the Central Valley Innovation Award, $10,000; the Food, Ag + Health Innovation Award, $3,000; two prizes totaling $1,500 in a Little Bang!

By Noah Pflueger-Peters

Chemical and Biological Engineering Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Nill won the 2019 student poster competition at the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB)’s Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals (SBFC) for her poster, “A multi-scale study to elucidate the role of cellulose physiochemical properties in productive binding of cellulases.”

UC Davis Give Day begins on April 12th at 12 p.m. and runs through Picnic Day, April 13th, ending at 5 p.m. This year's Give Day features a challenge for the SmartFarm Initiative. The challenge is a great opportunity to help support exciting new agricultural solutions.  To make your contribution, go to UC Davis Give Day and look for the SmartFarm Initiative.