{"id":230,"date":"2020-12-08T18:47:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T18:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/risbud-new\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2023-03-24T12:03:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T19:03:53","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/risbud\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Educational Background<\/span><\/h3>
  • B.Tech., 1969, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay<\/li>
  • M.S., 1971, University of California, Berkeley<\/li>
  • Ph.D., 1976, University of California, Berkeley<\/li><\/ul>

    Honors and Awards<\/h3>
    • Blacutt-Underwood Endowed Professorship in Materials Science (2009)<\/li>
    • UC Davis Academic Senate Distinguished Graduate\/Professional Teaching Award (2008)<\/li>
    • Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Engineering, UC-Davis (2005)<\/li>
    • Norbert Kreidl Award, Optical Materials Division, American Ceramic Society (2002)<\/li>
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      \u00a0Biography<\/h3>
      Subhash Risbud wears many hats, only one of which involves his academic responsibilities in the UC Davis Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. He\u2019s also director of the campus\u2019 Internship and Career Center, and \u2014 far more intriguingly \u2014 a devoted cultural ambassador for the Indian classical music that has fascinated him since 1988, when he joined a weekly class in Sacramento.<\/span><\/div>
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      For the past several years \u2014 in addition to his College of Engineering coursework \u2014 Risbud has taught a freshman seminar titled Exploring the Soul of an Ancient Culture through Indian Classical Music. The increasingly popular class helps students learn the basic structure of ragas, while exploring the cultural context of the songs presented.<\/div>
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      Risbud also offers concerts in his own home, when schedules allow him to host artists touring from India.<\/div>
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      \u201cA lot of nuances of classical Indian music are enjoyed through some level of eye-to-eye contact with the listeners,\u201d he explained, in a 2005 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. \u201cThe intimacy you get at a house concert isn\u2019t possible in a large auditorium.\u201d<\/div>
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      In 2009, Risbud led a Summer Abroad program to Mumbai, India, where he taught a course titled Music and Culture: From Sitar to Bollywood. Students stayed at Mumbai\u2019s Indian Institute of Technology (ITT), and Risbud arranged for voice training and supplemental instruction to be taught by Shubhangi Sakhalkar, a professional Indian classical musician.<\/div>
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      For Risbud, it was something of a homecoming. He completed his undergraduate work at that school, then came to the United States and in 1971 earned his master\u2019s degree in materials science and engineering at UC Berkeley. He remained at Berkeley and obtained his doctorate in 1976, in materials science with a focus on glasses and ceramics. He then began his academic career at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, rising from assistant professor to a tenured position in the Department of Ceramic Engineering.<\/div>
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      He transitioned to the University of Arizona in 1985, where he served as a professor of materials science and engineering. In collaboration with the university\u2019s optical scientists, he worked on the synthesis of quantum dots in glasses, in a program that was supported by the National Science Foundations\u2019 Industry-University Optical Circuitry Cooperative.<\/div>
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      Risbud was made a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 1989. As time passed, he served as a consultant to many companies in the fields of glasses, thin films, gradient index glasses and ceramic substrate technologies.<\/div>
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      He moved to UC Davis in 1990, joining what then was the Division of Materials Science and Engineering, in the Department of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Materials Engineering. In the lab, he continued his work on glasses, quantum dots and ceramics; administratively, he became a crucial part of major changes within the College of Engineering. In the summer of 1993, Risbud became vice-chair of the newly merged Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. He rose to department chair in 1996, a position he held until 2002.<\/div>
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      During his tenure as chair, Risbud was twice honored by the American Ceramic Society, receiving an Outstanding Educator Award in 1998; and the Norbert Kreidl Award, Optical Materials Division, in 2002.<\/div>
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      Risbud\u2019s profile as an extremely popular and talented professor continued to grow within the UC Davis community. The College of Engineering granted him an Outstanding Teaching Award in 2005; this was followed, in 2008, with a UC Davis Academic Senate Distinguished Graduate\/Professional Teaching Award. In 2009, he received the Blacutt-Underwood Endowed Professorship in Materials Science.<\/div>
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      \u201cI will register for any of Professor Risbud\u2019s classes, regardless of content or relevancy to my degree,\u201d wrote one student, \u201csimply on the caliber of his instruction.\u201d<\/div>
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      In 2005, Risbud expanded his outreach activities by becoming faculty director of the UC Davis Internship and Career Center (ICC), which provides campus-wide advising and placement services for undergraduate, graduate and professional students, along with postdoctoral fellows and alumni. Although hired for a three-year term, the position has proved a comfortable fit, and Risbud remains director to this day. He has aggressively marketed ICC Career Fairs, touting them as \u201cprecious resources\u201d that have become more valuable in today\u2019s world of tightened job markets.<\/div>
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      Last \u2014 and certainly not least \u2014 Risbud is a top-flight cricket player, a sporting passion he developed as an undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Technology. Despite the rigors of the engineering coursework, he nonetheless served as opening bowler \u2014 akin to a starting pitcher, in baseball \u2014 for the institute\u2019s intercollegiate cricket team. He continued playing cricket while at UC Berkeley, and also joined a team comprising the best players from all over Northern California.<\/div>
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      Once in Davis, Risbud\u2019s schedule forced him to cut back, but he still managed occasional \u201cfriendly\u201d matches with the Davis Cricket Club.<\/div>
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      Contemplative time, he has found, is best spent walking along Putah Creek.<\/div>
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      \u201cI love the Shakespearean-style bridges,\u201d he once commented. \u201cAnd in the wintertime, when there\u2019s fog, it\u2019s a very pretty place.\u201d<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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