UCSB materials assistant professor Daniel Oropeza receives a prestigious $1 million grant to pursue research on ultra-high-temperature ceramics.
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Galan Moody (left) and John Bowers
Oct 15, 2024
The multi-team effort is aimed at making a key photonic device smaller, faster, and more precise.
The success of a federal program is found to be funding-dependent.
Sep 27, 2024
Does the end of subsidies spell the loss of internet service for some rural areas?
Ram Seshadri and Raphaële Clement will work with colleagues to develop new battery technologies.
Sep 27, 2024
Ram Seshadri and Raphaële Clément join colleagues at multiple universities to address challenges around aqueous rechargeable batteries.
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.
Materials assistant professor Daniel Oropeza (far right) and his research group (left to right) Anthony Botros, Lucas Erich, and Logan Winston.
Sep 09, 2024
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, 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.
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
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
The National Science Foundation awards millions of dollars to two partnerships involving UC Santa Barbara.
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
UCSB researchers develop novel technique to determine how faithfully DNA modifications are copied from one cell generation to the next.
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