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Quantum Foundry co-directors Ania Bleszynski Jayich (physics) and Stephen Wilson (materials). Photograph by Matt Perko.

Sep 16, 2019
A $25 Million Quantum Leap

UCSB is named the site of the nation’s first Quantum Foundry, an NSF-funded center for developing materials to enable quantum technologies.

Sep 13, 2019
Collaborating to Protect Citrus Industry

An interdisciplinary project, intended to protect the citrus industry from a bacterial disease, is one of four projects to receive seed funding from Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE). 

Sep 10, 2019
Illuminating the Dark Matter

Chemical engineering professor receives National Institutes of Health award to fund research on reporter proteins. 

Professor Michelle O'Malley

Sep 10, 2019
Michelle O'Malley Receives Major DoE Grant for Biofuels Research

The ChemE professor receives a $2.5-million grant to advance biofuels derived from plant waste products.  

Source: UCSB Current
Artist's concept depicting magnetic moments having fluctuating alignments 120 degrees different from those of their neighbors. Illustration by Lilli McKinney

Aug 26, 2019
Seeking Moments of Disorder

UCSB scientists discover a new, long-hypothesized material state having a signature of quantum disordered liquid-like magnetic moments.

Aug 09, 2019
UCSB Named Charter Member of Microsoft's Optics for the Cloud Alliance

UCSB is one of six universities in the world collaborating to design the next generation of the cloud.

Concept illustration of information coming from a keyboard

Jul 31, 2019
Modeling Misinformation

Computer scientist William Wang applies deep-learning to understand how online misinformation spreads.

Source: UCSB Current
Artist's concept depicting block polymers packed together to form, in this case, a new phase of diblock co-polymer. Illustration by Brian Long

Jul 19, 2019
Expanding the Palette

UCSB researchers discover a new phase in block copolymers.

llustration depicting hydrogen-induced degradation of a sodium-ion battery: (1) When hydrogen is present (circled in black), (2) an Mn atom (purple) can move from the MnO2 layer to the Na layer (yellow); (3) Mn can then move within the Na layer, and will be lost. Illustration by Hartwin Peelaers.

Jul 10, 2019
Hydrogen Identified as a Culprit in Capacity Loss of Batteries

UCSB researchers reveal that a common impurity degrades battery electrodes.

Summer GRIT talks feature leading UCSB faculty discussing the the inspiration for their research and the impact it has.

Jun 24, 2019
Summer GRIT Talks Underscore UCSB Researchers' Inspiration and Impact

The annual lecture series features some of UCSB's leading faculty sharing their research. 

Source: UCSB Current
Xin Wang and William Wang on stage with the other winners.

Jun 19, 2019
Best Student Paper Award for Doctoral Student at Top AI Conference

Xin Wang's paper is recognized as the best of the more than 1,300 papers that were accepted for consideration.

Source: UCSB Current
An image from the simulation of a large, spherical cluster of cells responding to an electric pulse. Cells in the aggregate are color-coded by their transmembrane potential (hotter colors on cells imply higher transmembrane potential). The equatorial slice is to illustrate some of the computational techniques used for solving bioelectric interactions on the cell membranes.

Jun 12, 2019
A Large Computational Step Toward Faster Healing and Better Drug Delivery

Professor Frederic Gibou's lab creates the first large-scale simulation of cells’ response to electrical pulses.

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