Thousands of dollars in cash prizes will be awarded during the in-person event, to be held May 19 in Corwin Pavilion. 

The grant will accelerate IEE's pioneering research into improving the energy efficiency of data centers and AI. 

The ION™ is the first product from the company that was launched at UCSB.

Larry Coldren was honored at a symposium: titled “A History of PICs (Photonic Integrated Circuits) and VCSELs (Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers)."

Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the blue LED. Here, he writes about the global impact of the energy-efficient lights.