2021 News

The CSEP is collaborating with Alyson Santoro on a NSF Convergence Accelerator that will include workforce training for undergraduates.

Quintessent recently announced their partnership with Tower Semiconductor to create the world’s first silicon photonics (SiPho) process with integrated quantum dot lasers.

Arnab Mukherjee has developed a calcium sensor for use in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that he hopes can one day track electrical activity in neurons deep in living brains.

Juan Chamorro has been awarded a Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPS-Ascend) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The National Science Foundation awarded a 3.8-million-dollar grant to New Mexico Highlands University and CNSI / BioPACIFIC MIP partner institutions the University of California Los Angeles and the University of California Santa Barbara.

A recently published paper in the journal of Nature Materials, details a new material developed in the Quantum Foundry as a candidate superconductor that could be useful in future quantum computation.

Recognizing pioneering research.

Congratulations to Marcela Areyano, a sixth-year mechanical engineering PhD student and an NSF LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate Fellow, was awarded a University Award of Distinction for outstanding contributions to advancing underrepresented communities in STEM fields at UCSB.

The PWA Unsung Heroine Awards recognize members of the UCSB community who consistently go above and beyond to make the campus a better place for everyone.