How do you precisely roast beans? What to do with coffee's waste byproducts? The UC Davis Coffee Center is designed to test such questions and other deep, dark coffee mysteries. Between running tests, teaching chemical engineering and sipping black coffee, Professor Bill Ristenpart talks about the college's groundbreaking research center.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Maike Sonnewald weighs in on gaining information from a recent onslaught of storms to provide intel on climate change and make long-range weather forecasts.
Equatic, co-founded by UC Davis materials science engineer Erika La Plante, was recognized for its cutting-edge technology that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and creates hydrogen, a clean energy alternative.
RePurpose Energy, founded by a UC Davis engineer, is recognized as Comstock’s startup of the month for taking retired batteries from electric vehicles and converting them into storage for renewable energy sources like solar and wind.
We developed The Design of Coffee as a freshman seminar for 18 students in 2013, and, since then, the course has grown to over 2,000 general education students per year at the University of California, Davis.
It’s a scorching summer morning at UC Davis, but inside a laboratory at Everson Hall, about 20 students are busy brewing hot cups of joe. They’ve just completed a competition to brew the perfect cup of coffee — and earned college credits at the same time.
AI has affected numerous job markets with Goldman Sachs economists estimating that 300 million jobs across the globe could be automated by AI. However, AI is not always better, faster or cheaper with current iterations prone to mistakes or false information.
During an internship in eastern Uganda in 2018, biosystems engineering Ph.D. candidate Ismael Mayanja first had the idea for what would become Badaye Technologies. This month, Badaye Technologies was recognized by Comstock's Magazine as its startup of the month.
The New York Times spoke with Jeremy Munday, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis, to discuss the environmental and ecological impact of a new, ultra-white paint that can reflect 98 percent of sunlight.
