2022 Awards

UC-NATIONAL LAB IN-RESIDENCE GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS

Seven UC students were selected from among a highly competitive pool of applicants as recipients of In-Residence Graduate Fellowships. These Fellows will have the unique opportunity to conduct research and receive training at a national laboratory.

• Andrew Chio, UC Irvine (Los Alamos)
  Project Title: Integrating Model and Data-Driven Methods in IoT-enabled Resilient Infrastructure
• Alex Hitomi, UC Davis (Los Alamos)
  Project Title: Investigation of Productive Binding Sites on Cellulose Towards Improving Biofuel Production
• Meghann Ma, UC Davis (Lawrence Livermore)
  Project Title: Flow-Directed Electrochemical Rejuvenation of Lithium Ion Batteries
• Haotian Mao, UC San Diego (Los Alamos)
  Project Title: Kinetics of fusion plasma cooling by frozen pellets
• Nadia Miranda, UC Merced (Lawrence Livermore)
  Project Title: Coccidioidomycosis: Granulomas and lung microenvironmental signals controlling infection
• Pallavi Sambre, UC Davis (Lawrence Livermore)
  Project Title: Motile Matter: Reconstituting Cell Motility using Osmotic Robots
• Cindy Yanez, UC Irvine (Los Alamos)
  Project Title: Plant Radiocarbon as an Indicator for Urban Decarbonization

UC Multicampus-National Lab Collaborative Research and Training Awards

Five proposals, totaling almost $19 million over three years, were awarded in three targeted areas of research that leverage UC-national lab synergy: clean, renewable energy and decarbonization; frontiers of mesoscale materials and high energy density science; and pandemic preparedness and biosecurity. Collaborations represent genuine engagement among faculty, laboratory scientists and students across UC campuses and Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.

DIRECT PRODUCTION OF RENEWABLE FUELS AND CHEMICALS FROM CAPTURED CO2

• Lead Principal Investigator: Louise Berben, Ph.D., UC Davis
• Collaborating Sites: Berkeley, Irvine, UCLA, Merced, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore

CALIFORNIA’S DEEP DECARBONIZATION PATHWAYS: A HOLISTIC MULTI-LAYER ASSESSMENT

• Lead Principal Investigator: Rajit Gadh, Ph.D., UCLA
• Collaborating Sites: Berkeley, Merced, Riverside, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore

MULTISCALE INTERACTION AND INVERSE DESIGN OF METALLIC MESO-ARCHITECTED MATERIALS FOR DYNAMICS

• Lead Principal Investigator: H Alicia Kim, Ph.D., UC San Diego
• Collaborating Sites: Irvine, Santa Barbara, Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore

IMPROVING PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS AND HEALTH EQUITY THROUGH WASTEWATER-BASED EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Lead Principal Investigator: Kara Nelson, Ph.D., UC Berkeley
• Collaborating Sites: Davis, San Francisco, Lawrence Livermore

Coastal Wetland Restoration: a Nature Based Decarbonization Multi-Benefit Climate Mitigation Solution

• Lead Principal Investigator: Adina Paytan, Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz
• Collaborating Sites: Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Santa Barbara, Los Alamos, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore