UC Santa Barbara materials scientist Chris Van de Walle receives top computational physics award given by American Physical Society.
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Stephen Wilson, professor of materials at UC Santa Barbara
Oct 08, 2024
Peers recognized him for his pioneering work on quantum materials.
Lucas Erich, a materials PhD student at UCSB, received a prestigious NASA Fellowship connected to making a mission to Mars feasible.
Sep 18, 2024
Lucas Erich will pursue research connected to making a mission to Mars feasible.
2024 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship recipients (clockwise from top left) Wesley Mills, Max Emerick, Griffin Tong, and Joshua Baston
Sep 09, 2024
The fellowship provides full tuition, monthly stipend, travel budget, and health insurance funding for three years.
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, Van de Walle group.
Sep 06, 2024
The $3-million award will enable investigation of little-understood physics in gallium-nitride devices.
Arnab Pal, the only student in the Americas and one of only three world-wide to receive this fellowship from the IEEE EDS.
Sep 05, 2024
UCSB doctoral graduate receives one of three such prizes awarded world-wide.
NSF ExFAB BioFoundry staff and senior participants from UC Santa Barbara (l to r) - Oliver Vining, Elaine Kirschke, Jean-Marie Volland, Nathalie Elisabeth, Sherylle Mills Englander, Max Wilson, Michelle O'Malley, Joel Rothman, Niels Volkmann, Carolyn Mills.
Aug 28, 2024
UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, and Cal Poly Pomona receive a six-year, $22 million grant to establish a first-of-its-kind biofoundry.
A slide was shown at DEF CON announcing Shellphish as a semifinalist and a winner of $2 million.
Aug 22, 2024
The team was one of seven (from a field of forty-two) to emerge from the semifinal round.
UCSB chemical engineering professor James B. Rawlings has received the nation's highest honor for education in chemical engineering.
Jul 30, 2024
Chemical engineering professor James B. Rawlings has received the nation's highest honor in chemical engineering for education.
Shuji Nakamura with a laser his blue LED made possible.
Jul 16, 2024
He is honored again for his world-changing invention of the blue LED.
Mechanical engineering professor Yangying Zhu in her lab with some of her current graduate students.
Jun 18, 2024
All five UCSB engineering programs evaluated this year, and the COE itself, ranked in the top 16 among public universities, with one in the top 2 and three in the top 13.
2024 Outstanding Teaching Assistants (clockwise from top left) Cassidy Tobin, Anders Seawright, Eric Hsieh, Junrui Liu, Kunjesh Agashiwala
Jun 10, 2024
Graduating seniors recognize one teaching assistant from each undergraduate degree program.
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