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A group of undergraduate volunteers pose in front of the chemistry building at UC Santa Barbara.
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SciTrek founder Norbert Reich (center back) poses with some of the over 280 undergraduate volunteers who make the program possible.

SciTrek, UCSB’s largest education outreach program, garners new funding to expand

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A stack of blocks with the rare earth element symbols on them.
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Scientists and engineers would love if separating rare earth elements were as easy as picking one out of a stack of blocks.

A cleaner, more efficient way to process and recycle rare earth elements
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‘Going green always wins’: Bruce Lipshutz makes the case for green chemistry in drug manufacturing for low-income countries
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Four junior faculty members win Sloan Research Fellowships
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Shining a light on new chemical reactions
Two workers in white coveralls and masks examine solar cells in a cleanroom.
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Alternatives to silicon-based solar cells could allow solar panel production to move out of cleanrooms like this.

UCSB pioneers a low-energy process for high-performance solar cells
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Researchers uncover a potential method for interrupting the misfolding of tau protein that underlies neurodegenerative disease
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UC Santa Barbara selects inaugural Public Voices Fellows
three blue-gray petri dishes against a black background testing the resistance of bacteria to antimicrobials

Researchers develop molecules for a new class of antibiotics that can overcome drug resistant bacteria
The 14 members of the Biopacific Group pose outside Elings Hall
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The NSF BioPACIFIC MIP group.

BioPACIFIC MIP unites two UC campuses to advance a new model for materials research
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National Academy of Inventors recognizes Professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
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Chemistry professor Yang Yang receives a 2023 Packard Fellowship
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The Materials Research Laboratory receives a six-year, $18 million grant from NSF
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