Tatiana Mamani, a Ph.D. candidate in physical chemistry working with Professor of Chemistry Davide Donadio, is among 62 Ph.D. students selected nationwide to participate in Department of Energy's Office of Science Graduate Student Research program.

At the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis, researchers are using the power of machine learning to help protect us from the next pandemic, discover and build new materials, and explore the myriad galaxies in the heavens above.

Among the 27 faculty members who won this year’s award, eight were from the College of Letters and Sciences.

In the lab of Professor of Chemistry Davide Donadio, physical chemistry graduate student Maggie Berrens investigates the fundamental properties of the ice surface to better understand how ice acts as a catalyst for environmental reactions.