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By Greg Watry

A $1.5 million grant from the United States Department of Defense (DoD) will help UC Davis Professor Lee Miller, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior and the Center for Mind and Brain, expand his lab’s research on hearing loss, an issue of relevance to both aging populations and military personnel. Dr. Hilary Brodie in the Department of Otolaryngology / Head and Neck Surgery is a co-investigator on this grant. 

By Noah Pflueger-Peters

By Adil Abbuthalha

Please join us in celebrating Prof. Erkin Şeker as a 2020 recipient of the Graduate Studies Distinguished Graduate and Postdoctoral Mentorship Award!

By Adil Abbuthalha

Please join us in congratulating Professor Carolynn Patten for receiving a renewal of her Research Career Scientist (RCS) award from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Rehabilitation Research & Development Service (VA RR&D). 

By Sarah Colwell for Public Scholarship and Engagement.

Imagine turning on your computer and moving the cursor without ever touching it.

By Noah A Pflueger-Peters

A team of UC Davis researchers look to give humanity an extra hand—literally. A new, NSF-funded collaboration between the Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior (NPB) plans to develop and test a robotic fifth limb to give humans extra capabilities in extreme environments.

By David Slipher

By Noah Pflueger-Peters

If space is the final frontier, UC Davis is taking giant leaps to reach it. With expertise in human-machine cooperation, control systems and materials under extreme conditions, the university aims to make itself a rising star in space engineering and play a crucial role in the next generation of space exploration.

By Noah Pflueger-Peters

As artificial intelligence improves and becomes more prominent, researchers try to make these machines more responsive, more receptive and, ultimately, more human. However, giving a machine that human touch requires understanding what that is in the first place. New computer science professor Randy O’Reilly plays a key role in this as a part programmer, part neuroscientist working to understand how the brain works through computer models.

By Noah A Pflueger-Peters

Caitlin Banks, a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering under the mentorship of Dr. Carolynn Patten, was recently awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research. Her fellowship is co-sponsored by Dr. Carolynn Patten and Dr. Monica Perez.

By Noah A Pflueger-Peters

Humans and machines communicate using different languages, and like any language barrier, it can be reduced through mutual understanding and translation. New mechanical and aerospace engineering assistant professor Dr. Jonathon Schofield aims to break down this barrier by improving communication between humans and robotic rehabilitation technologies. 

UC Davis professors Karen Moxon, PhD, Ignacio Saez, PhD, and Jochen Ditterich, PhD, are authors of the article "Mind Over Matter: Cognitive Neuroengineering", published in Cerebrum, published by Dana Foundation. 

Link: https://www.dana.org/article/mind-over-matter-cognitive-neuroengineerin…

Posted by Adil Abbuthalha

Weijian Yang, an assistant professor of the electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis, is the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award – the Early CAREER Award -- for his research on “Agile multiplexed multiphoton microscope for interrogation of neural circuits.”