CITRIS

Keep your eyes on the skies: The 2026–27 CITRIS Aviation Prize has launched!

Students at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz are invited to advance air mobility at the University of California by submitting designs for critical aviation simulations and subsystems by Nov. 23.

Read the full RFP and register your team: citris-uc.org/aviation-prize/

We invite P*s at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz, Berkeley Lab and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to submit proposals for the CITRIS-CDSS Innovation Fellowship program and the AIC Awards, offering up to $200,000 over two years to help translate laboratory research into viable commercial solutions for society’s most pressing challenges.

Applications are due Oct. 8.
Review the RFP: citris-uc.org/aic-awards

We are grateful to Jeppesen Foreflight, our latest CITRIS Aviation Prize sponsor, for its generous support of our student innovators!

Learn more about the 2025–26 Aviation Prize, which challenges University of California student teams to design critical aviation simulations and subsystems: https://citris-uc.org/research/aviation/aviation-prize/

The countdown is on: One week remains for principal investigators to submit CITRIS Seed Funding proposals. ⏳

Receive up to $60K for projects in aerospace/aviation, AI/robotics, climate resilience, digital health. Open to P*s at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Davis Health, UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz.

Apply by April 22: bit.ly/citris-26seed-funding