Thursday, November 17, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
UC Davis has a new IGERT!
Eighteen new IGERT NSF grants have been awarded including our colleagues in the Dept of Land, Air and Water Resources, led by PI Graham Fogg and Program Coordinator Carole Hom:
- IGERT: Climate Change, Water, and Society (CCWAS), University of California-Davis
PI: Graham Fogg
Partners: Colorado School of Mines
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Congratulations NSF NCIIA awardees
Congratulations to two of our NSF CREATE-IGERT trainees on their recent NSF National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) awards!
IGERT Trainee Lucas Arzola and team:
“Inserogen is a biotech startup that aims to commercialize SwiftVax, a technology that enables the use of non-transgenic tobacco plants as protein biofactories. This proprietary technology platform is a disruptive innovation that can revolutionize biomanufacturing. Our capabilities of high-volume, cost-efficient, and accelerated manufacturing would enable the production of live saving vaccines in response to outbreaks, such as the H1N1 pandemic. The SwiftVax manufacturing platform can be customized for production of any high-value recombinant protein, and it would enable new markets in both developed and developing countries.”
IGERT trainee Mark Lemos and team:
Helios - University of California-Davis http://nciia.org/node/1708
“Despite the indisputable need for the development of renewable energy sources, the current options for renewable fuel (ethanol, butanol, biodiesel, methane, and hydrogen) are heavily based on food crops. One promising option is cellulosic biofuels, which have the potential to replace 30% of current demand for transportation fuels. However, the decomposition of cellulosic biomass presents a formidable challenge that requires costly, energy-intensive and environmentally detrimental pretreatment steps….This team is researching the viability of duckweed, a tiny, stem-less monocot plant that grows on the surface of ponds, as a cellulosic biofuel. Duckweed has a 2-3 day doubling time, utilizes non-arable land, can grow all year round and does not require extensive biomass pretreatment for biofuel production.”
If you have news to share with our IGERT community, please let me know and I will circulate to the listserv.
Cheers,
Denneal
Denneal Jamison-McClung, PhD
Associate Director, UC Davis Biotechnology Program
301 Life Sciences, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616
TEL (530) 752-5090 | FAX (530) 752-4125 | dsjamison@ucdavis.edu
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Call for entries: The Art of Symbiosis - Everyday Choices for Sustainability Video Contest
Together with colleagues from the energy efficiency and art and design communities, I recently joined a committee organizing a video contest called The Art of Symbiosis – Everyday Choices for Sustainability.
The project invites students, faculty, and staff on California college campuses to share their stories about the ideas, people, projects, technologies, and ways of living that could shift our direction toward a more positive future and to make the greater community aware of the ripple effect of daily choices. This could be any daily choice made, from lighting (a personal favorite of mine, of course) to water use, to transportation decisions. We selected a video contest because we believe it is an affordable and effective method to share these visions.
Through short video submissions, we are seeking the voices of campus communities to inspire awareness and catalyze choices. Videos can be up to 2 minutes in length. Feel free to upload up to three (3) entries per group or individual.
The juried contest will be presented through the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference at California State University, Long Beach, July 10-12, 2011. Prizes will be awarded.
For details on the contest visit: http://
Please circulate this email and enclosure freely and I hope you will consider participating. This contest is an effort to bring creative expression and personal stories about sustainable living to the 10th annual California Higher Education Sustainability Conference and to the greater community, something I feel is worthwhile.
Grab your iPhone, Flip Video, or video camera and make something.
Best regards,
Kelly
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Outreach Director
California Lighting Technology Center, UC Davis
633 Pena Drive / Davis, Ca 95618
530-747-3824
Monday, May 23, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
UC Davis Team Wins EPA P3 Award
Congratulations to UC Davis student team (seniors Lynn Nguyen, Nancy Lei, and Matt Ong, and graduate students Steve Zicari and Kelly Williams) of the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering who won an Honorable Mention Award at the EPA P3 Conference at the National Mall, Washington DC on April 15-16. Congratulations also to Ruihong Zhang, the team's advisor and sponsor!
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| Photo Credit: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/p3/ |
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| Photo Credit: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/p3/ |
UCD Students Won EPA P3 Award
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| Photo Credit: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/p3/ |
Details:
http://www.epa.gov/ncer/p3/project_websites/2011/su834729.html
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Julia Fan has been selected as a UC Davis Hellman Fellow
The Hellman Fellowship is funded by the Hellman Family Foundation to provide support and encouragement for the research of promising faculty at the Assistant Professor rank who exhibit potential for great distinction in their research and for whom the Hellman funding will have a significant impact.
Hellman Fellowship Program, 2011-2012, Criteria and Deadlines
Hellman Fellowship Program, 2011-2012, Criteria and Deadlines
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Our research: Climate summit posters
UC Davis is probing for climate change solutions on many fronts, offering hope for a greener, healthier tomorrow. To make this research accessible to all, the campus presents on the Web a series of 49 educational posters that showcase projects, programs, technologies and accomplishments in three broad areas: energy, environmental sciences and stewardship, and sustainable food and agriculture. The posters debuted at Governors' Global Climate Summit 3, held at UC Davis in November 2010. [ More… ]
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Undergraduate energy minors in Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in the Built Environment are now available
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Energy Science and Technology and Energy Policy Minors are now available and will be administered by UC Davis Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering . Review the details and requirements .
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
UC Davis Professor Louise Berben wins NSF Career Award for Electrocatalytic Multielectron Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Fuels Using Small Metal-Metal Bonded Clusters.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Newly launched, the UC Davis Blum Center for Developing Economies links world-class faculty; inspiring new curriculum; and innovative technologies, services and business models to create real-world solutions for developing economies
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