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Cassondra Brayfield

How to Persevere

  • by Jocelyn Anderson, UC Davis Magazine
  • May 16, 2023
Materials science and engineering Ph.D. candidate Cassondra Brayfield is on track to finish her degree in August, but she is quick to acknowledge that the road to success has been bumpy.
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Using Machine Learning to Find Reliable and Low-Cost Solar Cells

  • by Andy Fell, UC Davis
  • April 18, 2023
Researchers at the University of California, Davis College of Engineering are using machine learning to identify new materials for high-efficiency solar cells. Using high-throughput experiments and machine learning-based algorithms, they have found it is possible to forecast the materials’ dynamic behavior with very high accuracy, without the need to perform as many experiments.
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2023 Graduate Student Excellence Awards

  • by Matt Murphy
  • March 07, 2023
The College of Engineering is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Graduate Student Excellence Awards: Isabella Loureiro Muller Costa, Peifen Lyu, Patrick Cunningham and Tanner Finney.  
Lyu has created a device that dissolves in water and changes colors in displays.

Innovating for our future

  • by Clémentine Sicard, UC Davis DEVAR
  • February 22, 2023
Peifen Lyu ’19, Ph.D. ’25 has created a magnesium-based nanoscale optical device that dissolves in water and changes colors in displays. It creates a color change across several applications, such as a coating for pills or as sensors in environmental science for testing different chemical compositions.
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Student Spotlight: Ph.D. Candidate Isabella Costa

  • by Ceramic and Glass Industry Foundation (CGIF)
  • February 03, 2023
Meet Isabella Loureiro Muller Costa. Costa is a third year Ph.D. candidate in materials science and engineering at the University of California, Davis. Isabella is in the Ceramic and Glass Industry Foundation, or CGIF, President's Council of Student Advisors and brought CGIF Mini Kits to Brazil last year to expose students to materials science.
Cassondra Brayfield

Cassondra Brayfield Awarded Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship

  • by Matt Murphy
  • January 13, 2023
Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. candidate Cassondra Brayfield was named a recipient of the Cadence Diversity in Technology Scholarship under its Women in Technology program. Brayfield was selected based on leadership skills, recognition of accomplishments, endorsement from professors, and drive to shape the world of technology. 
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Ph.D. Student Isabella Costa Does Outreach in Brazil

  • by Helen Widman
  • September 26, 2022
Children in Maripá de Minas don’t think of pursuing a higher education, likely because they don’t know what opportunities await them in Brazil or beyond. Isabella Loureiro Muller Costa, a third year Ph.D. candidate at UC Davis and Brazil native, plans to show these students what their future could entail with her outreach efforts.
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Developing Life-Like Synthetic Cells

  • by Noah A Pflueger-Peters
  • July 05, 2022

Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. candidate Pallavi D. Sambre is taking the first steps toward engineering lifelike artificial materials that reconstitute a cell’s ability to change their membrane shape to move from one part of the body to another.

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Student Spotlight: Sevag Momjian

  • by Noah A Pflueger-Peters
  • June 27, 2022
The natural curiosity about the world Sevag Momjian '22 has always had led him to materials science and engineering, and he's excited to help the field realize its potential to solve some of the greatest challenges of the 21st Century.
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