Strong Signals: ECE Professor Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award

Less than one year after joining the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as an assistant professor, Loai Salem has received the DARPA Young Faculty Award.

Chemical Engineering Student "Mussels" in to Win 2019 UCSB Grad Slam

George Degen takes home grand prize and $5,000 for three-minute talk about his research into mussels' ability to adhere to wet surfaces.

A Top Ten Robot

Mechanical engineer's pneumatic-powered soft robot is named one of Science Robotics’ “Ten robotics technologies of the year.”

Glimpsing the Future

UCSB engineering professor John Bowers’ group develops a high-performance mode-locked quantum-dot laser on silicon, enabling blazing data-transmission rates.

The Olefin in the Room

At a polymer-upcycling workshop, members of academia, national labs, and industry take on one of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Moving Precision Lasers from Bench Scale to Chip Scale

Shrinking a high-performance laser paves the way for broader applications of the powerful technology.

Anonymous but Trustworthy

UCSB Researchers create an app that ensures anonymity and trustworthiness for minority groups using social media in authoritarian countries.

Putting Cells under Stress

UCSB professor Beth Pruitt and collaborators create a device to help understand how cells communicate to form tissues under loading.

The Builder and the Regulator

Researchers develop new knowledge about how messenger RNAs and micro-RNAs in drive and control cell production during brain development.

Umesh Mishra's Faculty Research Lecture: "Thank God for GaN"

The professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering describes what makes gallium nitride a superior semiconductor.

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