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Brian Long
Co-PI Andrew Jayich will use the new technology to create ion traps like the one shown here, in which colors indicate independent electrodes to control trapped ions.

Galan Moody leads successful effort to secure $1.3 million for advanced 3D printing

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UCSB, Community Environmental Council to hold Living with Fire Summit
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Matt Perko
The scanning ultrafast electron microscope in the Bolin Liao lab

Researchers create the first ever visualization of photoexcited charges traveling across the interface of two semiconductor materials
broadband tower overlooks a rural area

Federal broadband subsidies boosted rural internet, but service faded once funding ended, researchers find
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Elections math is the subject of new graduate seminar
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UC Santa Barbara partners with SB City College to expand workforce training in micro/nanotechnology and semiconductor manufacturing
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James Badham
Yangying Zhu (right), assistant professor in the UCSB Mechanical Engineering Department, receives her award certificate from ARPA-E Program Director Dr. Evelyn Wang at the National Academy of Sciences, in Washington, D.C.

Making desalination more efficient, by way of renewable energy
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Exploiting atomically thin materials for energy efficient electronics
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Jeff Liang
UCSB ExFAB staff and senior participants, from left, Oliver Vining, Elaine Kirschke, Jean-Marie Volland, Nathalie Elisabeth, Sherylle Mills Englander, Max Wilson, Michelle O'Malley, Joel Rothman, Niels Volkmann and Carolyn Mills.

UCSB to lead $22M NSF-funded center on exceptional microbes
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Aspiring engineers receive national research fellowships, with significant funding
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Jeff Liang
Professors Andrew Jayich, left, and Jon Schuller

Two UCSB professors selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to be Experimental Physics Investigators
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Rana Amini/Campàs Lab
Microscopy image of a developing zebrafish retina, with cell nuclei (blue) and membranes (yellow) shown

How cell nuclei organize eyes and brain
A stack of blocks with the rare earth element symbols on them.
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Thibault Renard via iStock
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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