Materials PhD Student Receives Esteemed NASA Fellowship Lucas Erich will pursue research connected to making a mission to Mars feasible. Read more about Materials PhD Student Receives Esteemed NASA Fellowship
Rewarding Innovation and Opportunity A UC Santa Barbara materials professor receives a junior-faculty award from his peers and a Navy research grant. Read more about Rewarding Innovation and Opportunity
Jim Speck Wins Vannevar Bush Award The $3-million award will enable investigation of little-understood physics in gallium-nitride devices. Read more about Jim Speck Wins Vannevar Bush Award
Exploiting Atomically Thin Materials for Energy-efficient Electronics UCSB doctoral graduate receives one of three such prizes awarded world-wide. Read more about Exploiting Atomically Thin Materials for Energy-efficient Electronics
A Major Award for Desalination Research Yangying Zhu is named one of the first 13 academics to receive a new IGNIITE grant. Read more about A Major Award for Desalination Research
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. Read more about UCSB to Lead $22M NSF-Funded Center on Exceptional Microbes
Partners with a Purpose The National Science Foundation awards millions of dollars to two partnerships involving UC Santa Barbara. Read more about Partners with a Purpose
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. Read more about A Novel Approach to Moving Huge Data Sets for Machine Learning
Keeping the Faith UCSB researchers develop novel technique to determine how faithfully DNA modifications are copied from one cell generation to the next. Read more about Keeping the Faith
Rhythms of Nature Francesco Bullo, Kerem Çamsari, and colleagues seek to understand synchrony in oscillatory systems. Read more about Rhythms of Nature