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Fostering Future Faculty
Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from across the country found the support and guidance through a new FAME program geared to recruit and mentor future faculty mentors.
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Revved Up on Robots
Brandon Marcus's robotics and artificial intelligence research and recent co-authorship of a major paper accepted to the 2025 CASE conference mark a few of his successes as the second BCOE student to graduate with a bachelor's degree in robotics.
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Solid-state batteries charge faster, last longer
Solid-state batteries are poised to transform everything from electric cars to consumer electronics, and represent a transformational leap in energy storage.
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Banking on the Future
BCOE alum Shrina Kurani (BS, Mechanical Engineering, ’13) was appointed as the deputy director of venture capital for the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, and will lead a program that promotes investments across the state, with a focus on underrepresented entrepreneurs and fund managers, underinvested regions, and climate equity and justice
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Ready to Launch
The IGNITE Student Professional Conference provided students with inspiration, learning, and networking during a professional development event that featured breakout sessions, an alumni panel, a career exhibition, and mock interviews.
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Women’s pelvic tissue tears during childbirth unstudied, until now
Millions of women undergo episiotomies during childbirth every year, yet the mechanics behind these surgical cuts remain largely unstudied. A new research project is poised to change that, addressing this significant gap in women’s healthcare.
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Winston Chung Global Energy Center
Winston Chung Global Energy Center announces new directors
BCOE faculty members Juchen Guo and Hamed Mohsenian-Rad are the new co-directors of the Winston Chung Global Energy Center.
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Cengiz Ozkan named National Academy of Inventors fellow
UC Riverside professor Cengiz Ozkan has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a prestigious honor recognizing outstanding academic inventors whose innovations have made a significant societal impact.
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