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Video capture of liquid finding its way through a maze.

Feb 03, 2025
UCSB Researchers Solve A Fluid -Mechanics Mystery

Explaining a quirky phenomenon from a seven-year-old experiment that became an art piece. 

Source: The Current
A spheroid of mammary epithelial cells encapsulated in a 3D hydrogel simulating the tumor microenvironment.

Jan 07, 2025
A Catalyst to Discovery

Bioengineer Ryan Stowers receives a pair of substantial awards to fund biomedical research.

Andrei Isichenko holds the ultra-high-quality ring resonator (left), which can help turn the "coarse" light from a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode (right) into a low linewidth laser.

Dec 13, 2024
Bringing the Power of Tabletop Precision Lasers for Quantum Science to the Chip Scale

Researchers in Daniel Blumenthal's lab work to re-create the performance of bench-top lasers on tiny devices. 

Source: The Current
Tinish Bhattacharya in his lab

Dec 10, 2024
Innovative Hardware for Rapidly Solving High-order Optimization Problems

PhD student leads development of architecture to compute high-degree polynomial gradients in-memory.

Artist's concept illustration of a photonic memory array. Illustration by Brian Long

Dec 04, 2024
A New Optical Memory Platform for Super-fast Calculations

An international team develops a faster, more durable optical platform for in-memory computation.

UCSB and UCLA faculty involved with the BioPACIFIC MIP collaboration

Dec 02, 2024
UCSB Ranks Eighth Globally for Interdisciplinary Research

The inaugural rankings included nearly 750 universities from around the world. 

Assistant Professor Shiyu Change; photograph by Lilli Walker

Nov 06, 2024
An NSF Early CAREER Award to Improve Large Language Models

Shiyu Chang envisions a future when LLMs are empowered with rapid, accurate error correction and seamless knowledge-updating capabilities.

UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency funds four faculty projects aimed at sustainability.  

Nov 06, 2024
Investing in Social Impact

UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency funds four faculty projects aimed at sustainability.  

 

Daniel Oropeza, assistant professor of materials at UC Santa Barbara

Oct 21, 2024
Breaking the Mold

UCSB materials assistant professor Daniel Oropeza receives a prestigious $1 million grant to pursue research on ultra-high-temperature ceramics.

Photograph of Galan Moody and John Bowers

Oct 15, 2024
A DARPA Award to Squeeze Light for Powerful On-Chip Optical Sensors

The multi-team effort is aimed at making a key photonic device smaller, faster, and more precise.

an image of an internet tower in a rural area

Sep 27, 2024
Federal Subsidies Boosted Rural Internet. Service Faded when Funding Ended.

Does the end of subsidies spell the loss of internet service for some rural areas?

Source: UCSB Current
Image of Ram Seshadri and Raphaele Clément

Sep 27, 2024
UCSB Professors to Collaborate on DOE Aqueous Battery Research

Ram Seshadri and Raphaële Clément join colleagues at multiple universities to address challenges around aqueous rechargeable batteries.

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