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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.

 

A microscopy image showing muscle fibers of heart myocardium

Aug 07, 2024
The Beat Goes On

Beth Pruitt’s lab develops new software to accelerate studies of cells responsible for heart contractions.

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.

James B. Rawlings, UCSB chemical engineering professor

Jul 30, 2024
Excellence in Education

Chemical engineering professor James B. Rawlings has received the nation's highest honor in chemical engineering for education.

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
Kerem Çamsari (left) and Shaila Niazi

Jul 22, 2024
A Probabilistic Certainty

Kerem Çamsari's lab has proven the value of an old algorithm in training deep-learning models for AI.

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
Image of Shuji Nakamura holding a blue laser

Jul 16, 2024
Shuji Nakamura to Be Inducted into Engineering and Science Hall of Fame

He is honored again for his world-changing invention of the blue LED.

Source: UCSB Current

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.

An images suggesting heat being transformed into electricity

Jul 01, 2024
Tapping Waste Heat for Electricity

Bolin Liao and collaborators investigate the thermoelectric properties of cadmium arsenide thin films.

Source: UCSB Current

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