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Bruce Damonte
Henley Hall, home to UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency, is LEED Platinum certified, underscoring the institute’s focus on reducing the energy demands of advanced technologies

Institute for Energy Efficiency invests in energy-efficient AI, data centers and quantum technologies

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The internal structure of a jet engine

Materials scientist Daniel Oropeza receives prestigious award to advance high-temperature 3D ceramics
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Aqueous Battery Consortium

A new aqueous battery research collaboration to advance clean energy
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Materials scientist Chris Van de Walle receives top computational physics award from the American Physical Society
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Kaustav Banerjee named a JSAP Fellow International
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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
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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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