PhD student Lauren Washington’s grandmother helped her understand the value, by example, of her presence in any room.
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Third-year bioengineering PhD student Lauren Washington.
PhD student Lauren Washington’s grandmother helped her understand the value, by example, of her presence in any room.
Majorana 1, the eight-qubit topological quantum processor unveiled at Microsoft Station Q's 2025 conference. Used with permission of Microsoft.
A Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists unveils a first-of-its-kind topological qubit, paving the way for a more fault-tolerant quantum computer.
Concept illustration of the electro-optic response in AlScN, by Haochen Wang and ChuanNan Li
Illuminating a path to superior electro-optic performance in aluminum scandium nitride alloys.
Mechanical engineering senior Akinwole Akinbolagbe sees incentives for Black-student leadership as a key to building the campus community.
Eyob Teshome, shown with an illustration evoking Black History Month.
Meet computer science student Eyob Teshome, a Sacramento native who sees incentives for leadership as a key to expanding UCSB's Black community.
Towela Phiri
Meet Towela Phiri, the first of several extraordinary Black students in STEM at UCSB we will introduce in this space over the coming days to celebrate Black History Month.
Craig Hawker
He receives the Herman F. Mark Polymer Chemistry Award, named for a pioneer in the field.
Kerem Çamsari
The associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department receives prestigious recognition for his work on probabilistic computing.
M. Scott Shell, a chemical engineering professor, has been elected a Fellow by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
He developed a novel technique based on relative entropy and numerical optimization algorithms that served advanced multiscale modeling.
Researchers who captured fluid finding its way through a maze now understand what drove the counterintuitive phenomenon.
Explaining a quirky phenomenon from a seven-year-old experiment that became an art piece.
Associate Professor Elliot Hawkes.
Mechanical engineering associate professor is recognized for his “vine” robots and record-setting jumping robots.
Claude Weisbuch, distinguished professor and French Academie des Sciences Medal recipient.
For more than two decades, he has studied fundamental phenomena in semiconductors of the nitride family.