Content Marked with: Alumni
Investing in Ingenuity
Student professional organizations raised more than $119,000 for the five-week Match Challenge annual fundraiser, with donations covering the cost of student projects, attending conferences and participating in competitions, and leadership and professional development activities.
Character Building
Paul DiLorenzo's (PhD, Computer Science, ’08) interest in computers and computer graphics took root at a young age and took off as a doctoral student in computer science — paving the way for a successful career run at DreamWorks.
Digital Protector
Annie Du has turned her passion for fighting off hackers into a successful career as a cybersecurity expert and Netflix engineer
By Gale Hammons |
Infinity Stores
UCR Bourns College of Engineering researchers develop concept for breakthrough data-storage with the capacity to hold all humanity’s information on flash drive-sized device.
Cultivating Community
Rose Hack, billed as the first women-centric hackathon in the Riverside and San Bernardino counties region, was launched to encourage women and others underrepresented in STEM to gain experience and pursue innovation via participation in a hackathon.
By UCR Bourns College of Engineering |
Mentorship and Molecules
Profile of Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering bioengineering alum Jaimie Marie Stewart, how her grandmother inspired her to pursue engineering, and how she continues the cycle of mentorship.
By UCR Bourns College of Engineering |
Smashing Success
Alumnus Garrett Milliron co-invented a materials science technology that was inspired by the “smasher” mantis shrimp and was recently used to develop a "bioinspired marvel," high-performance, impact-resistant hockey equipment
Heart Smart
UCR Bourns College of Engineering students participated in the Data Science Challenge, a two-week summer internship at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that this year prompted them to use data science and machine learning as tools to tackle a real-world problem in the biosciences; the limitations of the electrocardiogram.
From Hesperia to Harvard, via UCR
At Harvard-MIT, alumna Kimberly Bennett is researching treatment for pediatric brain tumors through three fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Mechanical engineering student Ani Tangirala prepares student organization vehicle for national competition and excels in internships
Third-year Mechanical Engineering student Anirudh Tangirala is an Aerodynamics lead for Highlander Racing, FSAE, interned at Chenbro Micom, and will be interning at Howmet Aerospace.