Powerhouse team of UCSB professors wins NSF award to use AI to discover scientific laws for group interactions.
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ECE assistant professors Nina Miolane (seated) and Haewon Jeong are two of the four UCSB faculty members who are collaborating on a new $1 million NSF award. Photo credit: Matt Perko
Oct 05, 2026
An electron tunnels from an individual nitrogen atom (N, orange) to a nitrogen-vacancy center (NV, blue) in diamond. Below the lattice, the energy landscape: the electron cannot climb over the barrier between the two defects, so it passes straight through it. (Image credit: Lukas Razinkovas)
Oct 05, 2026
An international team of researchers reveals the pivotal role of tunneling in charging the diamond NV center.
Bolin Liao and his team developed one of the nation’s few scanning ultrafast electron microscopes (SUEM), which Liao will continue to use as part of research funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Photo credit: Matt Perko
Oct 02, 2026
As a 2026 Experimental Physics Investigator, Bolin Liao will develop platform for imaging and controlling quantum interactions with 2D materials.
As part of the Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes program, ECE professor Daniel Blumenthal will work on photonic integration of lasers and photonics for quantum optical clocks, atom interferometers and experiments for fundamental science involving neutral atoms and trapped ions. Photo credit: Matt Perko
Oct 01, 2026
Electrical and computer engineering professor Daniel Blumenthal is part of $290 million renewal of quantum science program.
Materials professor Craig Hawker speaks to participants in Innovation 360, the training program that Michelle O’Malley will expand through her AIChE fellowship to help more early-career researchers explore how scientific discoveries can move toward real-world use.
Sep 28, 2026
AIChE fellowship will support Michelle O’Malley’s efforts to broaden early-career researchers’ view of how discoveries move from the lab into the world.
Applications are now open for UC Santa Barbara’s new online Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership (METL) program, launching in fall 2027.
Sep 28, 2026
New professional degree combines advanced technical education with leadership and management training.
UC Santa Barbara vision scientist Miguel Eckstein (left) and computer scientist Arpit Gupta will discuss AI as a research tool.
Sep 21, 2026
UCSB Library speaker series features computer science faculty member Arpit Gupta on Sept. 29.
UCSB faculty member Emilie Dressaire will use her recent NSF CAREER award to work on flows in microgels. Made of soft, slippery particles, these gels more closely resemble the body's extracellular environment than many traditional gels used to study cells, cell aggregates and microbes. Image credit: Brian Long
Sep 16, 2026
UCSB’s Emilie Dressaire receives an NSF CAREER award to study transport in microgels that may help cancer research.
UC Santa Barbara engineering faculty members (from left) Daniel Oropeza and Yangying Zhu recently received an award from the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU) to investigate a reusable thermal protection system that could protect Earth-bound spacecraft from the heat of re-entry. Photo credit: Lilli Walker
Sep 14, 2026
UCSB engineering team receives inaugural award to design reusable systems for spacecraft returning to Earth.
The new production method improves heating efficiency and also produces a byproduct, graphite, that has potential use in battery production. Photo credit: iStock/ Scharfsinn86
Sep 03, 2026
Chemical engineering professor Eric McFarland co-authors Science paper outlining a highly efficient, low-emission approach to producing hydrogen.
Anaerobic fungi form intricate networks that help break down tough plant material. UCSB researchers will pair these fungi with specialized bacteria to study how microbial partnerships can convert plant waste into useful chemicals. Image courtesy of ExFAB.
Aug 27, 2026
UCSB researchers are taking cues from microbes to explore more sustainable ways to make fuels, materials, and other products.
Javier Read de Alaniz, left shows Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, right, around the UC Santa Barbara OASIS facility after an announcement of federal money to the university. (Photo by Angel Corzo/Santa Barbara News-Press).
Aug 23, 2026
The four-year grant will fund an AI-programmable cloud laboratory at the UCSB facility that can be accessed remotely by any researcher in the country.
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