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College of Creative Studies biology student Ashley Yeh '24

Creative Studies student earns coveted Knight-Hennessy Scholarship for neuroscience

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A major materials award for Chris Van de Walle
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Scientists will eliminate bottlenecks to breakthroughs with a newly acquired synthetic biology robotics system
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Researchers can now visualize osmotic pressure in living tissue
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UCSB joins a federally sponsored regional innovation hub to help bolster microelectronics technology
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Misha Sra

Computer scientist Misha Sra uses AI to make motor skills training more accessible
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The Materials Research Laboratory receives a six-year, $18 million grant from NSF

Wifi can read through walls
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A quantum magnetometer on a chip

UC Santa Barbara quantum scientists to conduct NSF-funded research to pursue quantum-scale sensor technologies
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With this method, your empty detergent bottle can be turned into more detergent

Our plastic waste can be used as raw material for detergents, thanks to an improved catalytic method
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In this image of the newly developed transmitter assembly, the small, brownish chip on the left is the electronic integrated circuit (EIC), and the larger, black-and-gold chip on the right is the photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The long structure on the left side of the PIC is the modulator, which converts the electrical signal into an optical one. Light gets coupled into and out of the chip through the fibers on the right side of the PIC. Everything is mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB), with gold wire bonds connecting the chips. Data flows from left to right, where the incoming electrical signal gets amplified by the EIC, converted to an optical signal by the PIC, and sent out via fiber to its destination.

Student-led holistic co-design of photonics, electronics and packaging enables faster, more-efficient data transfer
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An AI-generated image depicts engineers working on an AI-enabled robot.

GauchoAI team takes second place in Amazon’s Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge
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Oil and gas extraction infrastructure in the Permian Basin

MethaneMapper is poised to solve the problem of underreported methane emissions
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