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The Interactive Learning Pavilion, opened in 2023, is UCSB’s first all electric facility.

Reaching net zero for emissions will bring major cost savings to campus

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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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A ‘toolbox of biocatalysts’ improves control over free radicals
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Professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen receives double honors for her work on organic photovoltaics
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A game-changing method of “upcycling” plastics helps clear the path toward a circular economy
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A University of California multi-campus initiative strives to boost diversity within its STEM teaching faculty ranks
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Simply seeing a machine might not convey what it does.

Filming Proteins in Motion: Physics researchers inch closer to an ambitious goal
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Professors Thuc-Quyen Nguyen and Carlos G. Levi are elected to the National Academy of Engineering
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An Overlooked Phenomenon

Not Just for the Gods
Fullbright Award recipients

Research on the Road
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