UCSB doctoral student Elizabeth Murphy has won the 2025 Henkel Award for her exceptional work in developing a versatile strategy to accelerate the discovery of block copolymers.
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2025 Connie Frank Fellowship recipients (left to right) Renata Dos Reis Marques, Gabriela Villapando Torres, Gianna Gathman
Apr 16, 2025
Engineering graduate students awarded fellowships to further investigate cardiac disease, fibrosis, and tissue self-regeneration.

2025 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipients (left to right) Kyle Lee, Jordan Prescott, Anya Mulligan
Apr 14, 2025
Fellows receive three years of financial support, totaling nearly $150,000, in the form of an annual stipend, tuition, and fees.

The Materials Department ranked first among public universities in the latest rankings of engineering graduate programs.
Apr 08, 2025
Five graduate programs in the College of Engineering rank among top 15 at public universities, including two in the top nine of their fields.

Fourth-year PhD student Lisa Mansson, who moves on to the UCSB finals after winning Round 3 of the 2025 UCSB Grad Slam.
Mar 18, 2025
Lisa Månsson wins Round 3 of UCSB Grad Slam for her talk about glioblastoma research.

Jeffrey Stewart, a professor in the Black Studies Department, has been named UCSB's new Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. He served as the Interim Vice Chancellor for DEI from January 2022 through June 2024.
Dec 02, 2024
Stewart served as the Interim Vice Chancellor for DEI from January 2022 through June 2024.

A collaboration between UCSB and UCLA faculty, known as the BioPACIFIC MIP, to design novel materials is one of many examples of the interdisciplinary sciences research being conducted on the UCSB campus.
Dec 02, 2024
The inaugural rankings included nearly 750 universities from around the world.

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.

2024 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship recipients (clockwise from top left) Wesley Mills, Max Emerick, Griffin Tong, and Joshua Baston
Sep 09, 2024
The fellowship provides full tuition, monthly stipend, travel budget, and health insurance funding for three years.

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.

Mechanical engineering professor Yangying Zhu in her lab with some of her current graduate students.
Jun 18, 2024
All five UCSB engineering programs evaluated this year, and the COE itself, ranked in the top 16 among public universities, with one in the top 2 and three in the top 13.

2024 Outstanding Teaching Assistants (clockwise from top left) Cassidy Tobin, Anders Seawright, Eric Hsieh, Junrui Liu, Kunjesh Agashiwala
Jun 10, 2024
Graduating seniors recognize one teaching assistant from each undergraduate degree program.
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