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Lucas Erich, a materials PhD student at UCSB and NASA Fellowship recipient

Sep 18, 2024
Materials PhD Student Receives Esteemed NASA Fellowship

Lucas Erich will pursue research connected to making a mission to Mars feasible. 

Materials assistant professor Daniel Oropeza (far right) and his research group (left to right) Anthony Botros, Lucas Erich, and Logan Winston.

Sep 09, 2024
Rewarding Innovation and Opportunity

A UC Santa Barbara materials professor receives a junior-faculty award from his peers and a Navy research grant. 

Concept illustration of non-radiative recombination, in which electron-hole interaction at a defect in the atomic structure results in heat, rather than light, being emitted. Jim Speck will use his Vannevar Bush Award to advance understanding of the physics of such interactions. Illustration by Fangzhou Zhao

Sep 06, 2024
Jim Speck Wins Vannevar Bush Award

The $3-million award will enable investigation of little-understood physics in gallium-nitride devices.

Arnab Pal

Sep 05, 2024
Exploiting Atomically Thin Materials for Energy-efficient Electronics

UCSB doctoral graduate receives one of three such prizes awarded world-wide.

Source: UCSB Current
ExFAB staff and senior participants from UC Santa Barbara

Aug 28, 2024
UCSB to Lead $22M NSF-Funded Center on Exceptional Microbes

UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, and Cal Poly Pomona receive a six-year, $22 million grant to establish a first-of-its-kind biofoundry.  

Yangying Zhu (right), assistant professor in the UCSB Mechanical Engineering Department, receives her award certificate from ARPA-E Program Director Dr. Evelyn Wang at the National Academy of Sciences, in Washington, D.C.

Aug 19, 2024
A Major Award for Desalination Research

Yangying Zhu is named one of the first 13 academics to receive a new IGNIITE grant.

Jackson State student KC Sims (right) works alongside mentor Aria Ghasemizadeh, a UCSB PhD student, during her summer internship as part of the NSF-funded Partnership for Research and Education in Materials Science.

Aug 07, 2024
Partners with a Purpose

The National Science Foundation awards millions of dollars to two partnerships involving UC Santa Barbara.

 

This image shows a DNA molecule that is methylated on both strands on the center cytosine. DNA methylation plays an important role for epigenetic gene regulation in development and cancer

Aug 01, 2024
Keeping the Faith

UCSB researchers develop novel technique to determine how faithfully DNA modifications are copied from one cell generation to the next.

Jonathan Balkind (center) and student co-lead authors (from left), Isaac Hair and Guillem López-Paradis with the poster of the paper they presented at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture.

Aug 01, 2024
A Novel Approach to Moving Huge Data Sets for Machine Learning

Could a cart on tracks be used to speed drives across a data center? Balkind-lab researchers investigate.

An image of fireflies in Thailand.

Jul 29, 2024
Rhythms of Nature

Francesco Bullo, Kerem Çamsari, and colleagues seek to understand synchrony in oscillatory systems.

Source: UCSB Current
Nobel Laureate and professor emeritus Herbert Kroemer (1928-2024)

Jul 19, 2024
UCSB Library Receives Papers of Nobel Laureate Herb Kroemer

The collection, donated by his daughters, contains a wide range of printed materials related to Herb Kroemer's career. 

Source: UCSB Library

Jul 08, 2024
Bright Prospects for Engineering Quantum Light

When — and why — does a photon emitter not emit? Research at UC Santa Barbara illuminates the issue.

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