Nearly thirty students and alumni received one of STEM’s most competitive honors, a fellowship worth up to $159,000.
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Fourteen current students received 2026-27 National Science Graduate Research Fellowships, including (top row, l to r) Christopher Koh, Keyes Eames, Naomi Rehman, Ethan Chen, Trevor Hagan (middle row, l to r) Rohil Shah, Roenigk Straub, Karlee Macaw, Ben Kunimoto, Roland Yin; (bottom row, l to r) Anika Jena, Ava Salami, Andres Torres, Christopher Xu
Apr 19, 2026
Taking on the World: Team UCSB-WA (from left) Wesley Hung, Ezra Furtado-Tiwari, Om Mahesh and David Qiao.
Apr 14, 2026
Team UCSB-WA earns its spot after a top-20 finish at the North America Championship.
Six graduate programs in The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara placed among the nation's best, as did the college itself. Photo Credit: Matt Perko
Apr 07, 2026
The latest U.S. News & World Report assessment underscores the university’s influence in engineering
Professor Michelle O'Malley was named one of the Top Women of 2026 by the primary weekly business journal in the tri-counties.
Mar 31, 2026
Professor Michelle O'Malley was named one of the Top Women of 2026 by the primary weekly business journal in the tri-counties.
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Mar 24, 2026
Inventor of the blue LED and winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, Nakamura will receive Oxford's most prestigious award.
Steven DenBaars, winner of two different 2026 Holonyak prizes.
Mar 19, 2026
Steven DenBaars receives one Nick Holonyak Award from Optica, and another from IEEE.
James Buckwalter, new NAI senior member.
Mar 19, 2026
The ECE professor and entrepreneur becomes a member of the National Academy of Inventors.
Mar 12, 2026
UCSB professor is one of sixty-three scholars recognized for excellence, originality, service, and leadership in the microbial sciences.
From left: Umesh Mishra, Frank Koenig, B.S. Manjunath, Luke Theogarajan. Photo by Mia Nie.
Feb 20, 2026
ECE professor known for computer vision and neural networks research is honored as one of four endowed chairs in the department.
Alan Heeger (center) with his wife, Ruth (right), and UCSB chemistry professor and polymer expert Thuc-Quyen Nguyen. Photograph by Matt Perko.
Feb 05, 2026
A science-based birthday bash for the materials-chemistry giant who gave us conductive polymers.
Ryan Berry (left) and Norleakvisoth Lim are presented with their awards by Manabu Ihara, director of the Institute of Science Tokyo's Academy of Energy and Informatics.
Feb 05, 2026
The chemical engineering PhD students were recognized for their presentations on catalysis and energy-efficient chemical processes.
UCSB undergraduates at the MESA Student Leadership Conference, where Katherine Santiago (third from left) received an award from the MESA Idea Accelerator Program
Jan 07, 2026
A second-year engineering student and her team thrive in the MESA Idea Accelerator Program.
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