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The chemical element nickel denoted the number 28 from the periodic table
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Adding nickel atoms to improve a silver catalyst

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Researchers propose the next platform for brain-inspired computing
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Haewon Jeong

Dirty data: an opportunity for cleaning up bias in AI
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Satish Kumar

With the clock winding down on his doctoral degree, Satish Kumar scores a prestigious research fellowship
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NVC Finals judge Jason Rollman (left, in blue shirt) congratulates EyeClimate, the 2024 New Venture Competition Finals champions (from second to left) Bowen Zhang, PhD student; Max Gordon, undergraduate student; and Satish Kumar, PhD student

An entrepreneurial eye for solving climate change
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College of Creative Studies biology student Ashley Yeh '24

Creative Studies student earns coveted Knight-Hennessy Scholarship for neuroscience
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
Researcher's new book and portrait

How to build and protect skills in our modern workplace, a world filled with AI and robots
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M. Scott Shell, left, and Beth Pruitt, right

A prestigious career honor for two elite engineers
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Computer scientist William Wang receives prestigious early career technical achievement award
2024 Goldwater scholars
Clockwise, from left: Matthew Unger, Riya Nilkrant, Xuanwei Liang, Isaac Hair, Anika Jena

Five UC Santa Barbara undergraduates named Goldwater Scholars
the cellular development of an embryonic tooth
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Tooth epithelium (cell surface; yellow) and mesenchyme (cell surface; magenta). Proliferating cells (cyan) expand the tissue, generating a mechanical pressure at the tissue center that drives the formation of the main tooth signaling center or organizer, the enamel knot.

Pressure determines which embryonic cells become ‘organizers’
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A seed grant for light-driven catalysis
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