News & Events

• Computation Pioneer Elected to American Academy
  Berni J. Alder, professor emeritus in the Department of Applied Science and a researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is widely regarded as the founder of molecular dynamics, a type of computer simulation used for studying the motions and interactions of atoms over time.
• Nanotechnology in Reverse Uses Cell to Calibrate Tools
  Volkmar Heinrich, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and graduate student Chawin Ounkomol are turning the rules of nanotechnology around. Their research shows how they can use a red blood cell to calibrate a sensitive instrument, an atomic force microscope. Ounkomol's work is supported by the highly competitive Graduate Research and Education in Adaptive bioTechnology (GREAT) Training Grants, awarded by the UC Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program.
• Amit Kanvinde Receives 2008 Norman Medal
  The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has awarded the prestigious Norman Medal to Amit Kanvinde, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, and his former advisor Gregory G. Deierlein for the paper, “The Void Growth Model and the Stress Modified Critical Strain Model to Predict Ductile Fracture in Structural Steels.” The Norman Medal is cited by ASCE in recognition of a paper that makes a definitive contribution to engineering science.
• Student Team Wins National EPA Award For Sustainability
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) annual People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) competition plants the seeds for future technologies that are both environmentally friendly and profitable. One of the top six national competition winners, a UC Davis student design team, demonstrated how to develop technology that produces plastic from wastewater.