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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 ‘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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Jessie Ward O'Sullivan

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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Filming Proteins in Motion: Physics researchers inch closer to an ambitious goal
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Carlos G. Levi and Thuc-quyen Nguyen

Professors Thuc-Quyen Nguyen and Carlos G. Levi are elected to the National Academy of Engineering
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