Programs

CNSI seeks to foster scientific excellence and impact through investments in students and researchers headed towards careers in academia or industry and in multi-PI and multi-campus initiatives that may grow into new centers of excellence at UC Santa Barbara.

Research Funding & Fellowships

Challenge Grants

Funding support for initiation of large-scale and high-impact collaborations by UCSB faculty.

Climate Innovation Funds

A Proof of Concept funding program supporting the determination of commercial viability and small-scale projects or prototypes in Climate Action.

Climate Innovation Postdoctoral Fellows

Climate Innovation Postdoctoral Fellows work to advance commercialization activities and project development with faculty engaged in highly translatable Climate Action research.

Elings Prize Fellowships in Science

The Elings Prize Postdoctoral Fellowships serve to invest in the next generation of academic researchers.

Heeger Fellowships

The Heeger Fellowships are designed to assist graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to attend a conference to present their research and further develop their professional network.

Workforce Development

CNSI-Propel

Connecting emerging talent with our Region’s most innovative tech companies and PROmoting Professional Experiential Learning.

CC-PRIME

Providing training in nanofabrication skills for community college students.

Innovation Programs

Innovation

Physical and programmatic resources to support innovation.

Sustainability

Glove Recycling

Recycling of uncontaminated nitrile, latex, and vinyl laboratory gloves.