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Lucas Erich, a materials PhD student at UCSB and NASA Fellowship recipient

Lucas Erich, a materials PhD student at UCSB, received a prestigious NASA Fellowship connected to making a mission to Mars feasible. 

Sep 18, 2024
Materials PhD Student Receives Esteemed NASA Fellowship

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

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
Four COE Graduate Students Win Prestigious National Defense Fellowships

The fellowship provides full tuition, monthly stipend, travel budget, and health insurance funding for three years.

Materials assistant professor Daniel Oropeza (far right) and his research group (left to right) Anthony Botros, Lucas Erich, and Logan Winston.

Materials assistant professor Daniel Oropeza (far right) and his research group (left to right) Anthony Botros, Lucas Erich, and Logan Winston. 

Sep 09, 2024
Rewarding Innovation and Opportunity

A UC Santa Barbara materials professor receives a junior-faculty award from his peers and a Navy research grant. 

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

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
Jim Speck Wins Vannevar Bush Award

The $3-million award will enable investigation of little-understood physics in gallium-nitride devices.

Arnab Pal

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
Exploiting Atomically Thin Materials for Energy-efficient Electronics

UCSB doctoral graduate receives one of three such prizes awarded world-wide.

Source: UCSB Current
ExFAB staff and senior participants from UC Santa Barbara

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
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.  

A slide at DEF CON announcing Shellphish as a $2 million semifinal winner.

A slide was shown at DEF CON announcing Shellphish as a semifinalist and a winner of $2 million. 

Aug 22, 2024
Success in DARPA Cyberdefense Competition Nets Team a Trip to the Finals — and $2 Million

The team was one of seven (from a field of forty-two) to emerge from the semifinal round.

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.

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.

A microscopy image showing muscle fibers of heart myocardium

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.

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.

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.

 

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.

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.

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

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.

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