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The 2024–25 CITRIS Aviation Prize brings together students, researchers and professionals from diverse backgrounds to design critical aviation simulations and subsystems, integrating air transit into campus transportation networks and empowering efficient intercampus travel.

This competition is open to all students at the four CITRIS campuses at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz.

Developed in part with support from a 2022 Seed Award, the Interactive Care Platform — called I-Care for short — responds to the needs of a growing population of older adults with cognitive impairment, allowing them to continue to live safely in their own homes for as long as possible.

Shima Nazari, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Davis, works on the electrification of off-road machinery.

You get bonus points for owning an emergency radio or having a go bag on hand. Need to wrangle multiple stressed-out pets? Start off with a penalty.

ACTIVATE, a public-private initiative that works to bridge telehealth technology gaps in California’s Central Valley, has placed third in the Prime Health Innovation Challenge in California.

Erin Hestir, director of CITRIS at UC Merced and an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Susan Ustin, a professor of environmental and resource sciences at UC Davis, are collaborating with CSIRO, the Australian national science agency, to test and improve a service to deliver water qua

Alyssa Weakley, a neuropsychologist at UC Davis Health and 2022 CITRIS Seed Award recipient, is acutely aware of the difficulty of long-distance caregiving.

Saif Islam, campus director of CITRIS at UC Davis, has been awarded the 2024 Aden and Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. He was honored for his innovative work in ultra-fast and highly efficient photodetectors enabled by photon-trapping structures.