The National Science Foundation awards millions of dollars to two partnerships involving UC Santa Barbara.
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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.
The National Science Foundation awards millions of dollars to two partnerships involving UC Santa Barbara.
A microscopy image showing muscle fibers of heart myocardium
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
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.
Could a cart on tracks be used to speed drives across a data center? Balkind-lab researchers investigate.
UCSB chemical engineering professor James B. Rawlings has received the nation's highest honor for education in chemical engineering.
Chemical engineering professor James B. Rawlings has received the nation's highest honor in chemical engineering for education.
The luminescence of fireflies in Thailand, photographed with a long exposure, are one expression of synchrony in nature.
Francesco Bullo, Kerem Çamsari, and colleagues seek to understand synchrony in oscillatory systems.
P-bit pros: Kerem Çamsari (left) and third-year PhD student Shaila Niazi, who used p-bits to create images that were not part of a machine-learning training data set.
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)
The collection, donated by his daughters, contains a wide range of printed materials related to Herb Kroemer's career.
Shuji Nakamura with a laser his blue LED made possible.
He is honored again for his world-changing invention of the blue LED.
Concept illustration depicting a quantum defect emitting a single photon. Image by Mark Turiansky
When — and why — does a photon emitter not emit? Research at UC Santa Barbara illuminates the issue.
Bolin Liao and collaborators investigate the thermoelectric properties of cadmium arsenide thin films.
Neuromorphic computing has emerged as a promising way to bridge the energy efficiency gap.
The ultra-energy efficient platform has energy requirements within two orders of magnitude of the human brain's.