An international team of researchers reveals the pivotal role of tunneling in charging the diamond NV center.
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An electron tunnels from an individual nitrogen atom (N, orange) to a nitrogen-vacancy center (NV, blue) in diamond. Below the lattice, the energy landscape: the electron cannot climb over the barrier between the two defects, so it passes straight through it. (Image credit: Lukas Razinkovas)
Oct 05, 2026
ECE assistant professors Nina Miolane (seated) and Haewon Jeong are two of the four UCSB faculty members who are collaborating on a new $1 million NSF award. Photo credit: Matt Perko
Oct 05, 2026
Powerhouse team of UCSB professors wins NSF award to use AI to discover scientific laws for group interactions.
Bolin Liao and his team developed one of the nation’s few scanning ultrafast electron microscopes (SUEM), which Liao will continue to use as part of research funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Photo credit: Matt Perko
Oct 02, 2026
As a 2026 Experimental Physics Investigator, Bolin Liao will develop platform for imaging and controlling quantum interactions with 2D materials.
As part of the Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes program, ECE professor Daniel Blumenthal will work on photonic integration of lasers and photonics for quantum optical clocks, atom interferometers and experiments for fundamental science involving neutral atoms and trapped ions. Photo credit: Matt Perko
Oct 01, 2026
Electrical and computer engineering professor Daniel Blumenthal is part of $290 million renewal of quantum science program.
Materials professor Craig Hawker speaks to participants in Innovation 360, the training program that Michelle O’Malley will expand through her AIChE fellowship to help more early-career researchers explore how scientific discoveries can move toward real-world use.
Sep 28, 2026
AIChE fellowship will support Michelle O’Malley’s efforts to broaden early-career researchers’ view of how discoveries move from the lab into the world.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus John Bowers was recognized by the University of California with its 2026 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovation. Photo credit: Matt Perko, UCSB
Sep 28, 2026
The University of California honors John Bowers for a career that transformed optical communications and carried university discoveries from the laboratory into the marketplace.
Applications are now open for UC Santa Barbara’s new online Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership (METL) program, launching in fall 2027.
Sep 28, 2026
New professional degree combines advanced technical education with leadership and management training.
"We created this seminar to help students understand AI beyond the headlines, demystify how it actually works, and give them a broader view of where the field is heading," said computer science professor Xifeng Yan, who will be teaching the seminar. Photo credit: Shutterstock
Sep 22, 2026
New freshman seminar gives UCSB’s first artificial intelligence majors a broad view of the field.
UC Santa Barbara vision scientist Miguel Eckstein (left) and computer scientist Arpit Gupta will discuss AI as a research tool.
Sep 21, 2026
UCSB Library speaker series features computer science faculty member Arpit Gupta on Sept. 29.
“What I’ve always appreciated about chemical engineering as a field is its value of the elegance and impact of working out difficult problems from a fundamental point of view,” says UCSB chemical engineering professor Scott Shell, winner of the 2026 Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering. Photo credit: Lilli Walker
Sep 18, 2026
Chemical engineering professor Scott Shell receives AIChE award for advances in molecular simulation and multiscale modeling.
UCSB faculty member Emilie Dressaire will use her recent NSF CAREER award to work on flows in microgels. Made of soft, slippery particles, these gels more closely resemble the body's extracellular environment than many traditional gels used to study cells, cell aggregates and microbes. Image credit: Brian Long
Sep 16, 2026
UCSB’s Emilie Dressaire receives an NSF CAREER award to study transport in microgels that may help cancer research.
UC Santa Barbara engineering faculty members (from left) Daniel Oropeza and Yangying Zhu recently received an award from the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU) to investigate a reusable thermal protection system that could protect Earth-bound spacecraft from the heat of re-entry. Photo credit: Lilli Walker
Sep 14, 2026
UCSB engineering team receives inaugural award to design reusable systems for spacecraft returning to Earth.
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