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An image of the ProFoldBio team after the New Venture Competition finals, standing on a deck next to the UC Santa Barbara lagoon

The ProFoldBio team at the 2024 New Venture Competition finals. From left: Samuel Lobo, Devon Callan, Erica Keane Rivera, Ventura Rivera, Austin Dubose.

Jan 28, 2026
UCSB Startup Builds Software to Speed Drug Discovery

The platform enables a quicker path to viable treatments for Alzheimer’s and other diseases.

Engineers Without Borders UCSB Team with Solar Table

Front row (L to R): Lily Chen, Ava Graef, Arjun Gunda, David Bogdanovic
Second row (L to R): Marc Osborn, Camden Smith, Will Morgali, Riley Tang, Michael Krumland-Dunning.

Jan 23, 2026
Student Engineers Build and Install Solar-Powered Table

The Engineers Without Borders project gives students real-world experience. 

Poster for Agentic AI Summit at UCSB

Jan 22, 2026
Shaping the Next Frontier of AI: UCSB Hosts Inaugural Agentic AI Summit

Leading voices from industry and academia will address the future of agentic AI.

Gregorz (Greg) Mazur

Gregorz (Greg) Mazur

Jan 21, 2026
Gregorz Mazur Brings Intellectual Muscle to the Pursuit of Topological Superconductors

He is one of several new materials faculty who focus on the rare materials. 

Jan 15, 2026
AI Powers New Research on Covert Attention

William Wang and colleagues find new neuron types tied to driving and other activities that involve shifting attention without shifting gaze. 

Source: The Current
Simon Billinge

New materials professor Simon Billinge will lead CNSI.

Jan 12, 2026
New Materials Professor Is Also the New Director of CSNI

After 17 years at Columbia University, Simon Billinge heads west to lead the Califorinia NanoSystems Institute.

UCSB undergraduates at the MESA Student Leadership Conference, where Katherine Santiago (third from left) received an award from the MESA Idea Accelerator Program

Jan 07, 2026
MESA Accelerates Student Success

A second-year engineering student and her team thrive in the MESA Idea Accelerator Program. 

A group of students attends the Future Makers program at UC Santa Barbara

Glen City Elementary students attend UCSB's Future Makers Program with Innovation Lab manager Brian Dincau and members of Los Ingenieros.

Jan 06, 2026
New Future Makers Program Broadens STEM Opportunities for Underserved Youth

CNSI's Innovation Workshop welcomes elementary and middle school students to STEM exploration events.

Source: The Current
Kevin Plaxco

Kevin Plaxco.

Dec 15, 2025
Kevin Plaxco Elected Fellow of National Academy of Inventors

The honor comes thanks to a sensor, developed in the Plaxco lab, that promises more precise dosing of medicinal drugs.

Linda Petzold Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science

Linda Petzold, Mehrabian Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science.

Dec 11, 2025
UCSB Professor Linda Petzold Elected Fellow of IETI

Linda Petzold is among seventy scholars elected for their global influence.

An illustration of a highly precise chip-based magnetometer based on a special material that changes optical properties in response to a magnetic field

Researchers developed a highly precise chip-based magnetometer based on a special material that changes optical properties in response to a magnetic field. Credit: Brian Long, UCSB

Dec 11, 2025
Chip-Scale Magnetometer Uses Light for High-Precision Magnetic Sensing

Based on a magneto-optic material, the precision magnetometer could enable light-weight and low-power sensing for space, navigation and medical applications

Axel Palmstrom, a UC Santa Barbara graduate

Axel Palmstrom, a UC Santa Barbara graduate, has been named as one of the world’s most cited researchers by Clarivate.

Dec 11, 2025
UCSB Graduate Named One of the World’s Most Cited Researchers

Axel Palmstrom is among those recognized for important contributions in their fields of research.

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