UC Davis
UC Davis is widely known for its tradition of partnerships that stretch across 100 academic majors, 87 graduate programs, and professional schools in business management, education, law, medicine, nursing and veterinary medicine.
The campus links the population-dense Bay and Sacramento urban areas, remote and wild parts of the Delta and the Sierra Nevada, and the Central Valley. CITRIS @ Davis exploits this unique position to apply its own academic specialties in IT, engineering, nanoscience, law, and medicine to address challenges facing society, including energy and environmental concerns, urban stresses like the need for fresh water and clean air, and the needs of rural communities for access to adequate health care.
UC Davis is a global leader in applied technology and sustainability-related research. The university is currently constructing UC Davis West Village, a 220-acre mixed-use community that will serve as a laboratory for sustainable living. West Village will employ CITRIS-type tech solutions to create an energy-neutral (or even energy-productive) development for student and faculty housing. Another example of Davis’s innovative application of technology is the Center for Health and Technology’s California Telehealth Network, which employs advanced networking technologies to connect the State’s top urban medical centers with community hospitals and clinics, allowing specialists to consult with community physicians and their patients via interactive videoconferencing. The network is already vital—celebrating its launch in August of 2010 and also serving as the testbed for the development and analysis of cutting-edge innovations in telemedicine. CITRIS @ Davis is also working closely with the John Muir Institute of the Environment to apply IT monitoring and analysis techniques to track and evaluate environmental quality, including the supply and condition of the State’s water resources. Working in collaboration with researchers in the three other CITRIS campuses, Davis engineers are also developing new sensor and networking technologies that apply to all these applications and more.
The ingenuity, persistence, and commitment at CITRIS is helping California, and the nation, navigate a course to a cleaner, more peaceful way of life.
This year's competition was extremely close with excellent student proposals and presentations.
Please join us in learning about this year's finalists for the $45K prize money.
This could be the basis of a paradigm for making the work on other artists more accessible and collaborative
The new CITRIS@Davis director is compelled to get involved in research that will “have real world impact in other areas.”