January 7, 2013
It is our great pleasure to announce
that Prof. Megan Valentine has been
awarded the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Her proposal is titled: CAREER: An Integrated Approach to Neuron
Mechanics: Deciphering the Functional, Mechanical, and Structural Interactions
between Microtubules and Actin. The abstract for her award is available here.
March 1, 2011
March 1, 2011
Per Danzl is the recepient of the 2011 Best PhD Thesis Award in
Mechanical Engineering at UCSB, for his dissertation entitled "Dynamical Characterization and Feedback Control of Oscillatory Neural Systems," completed in Spring 2010.
January 19, 2011
The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded the UCSB campus $1,000,000 for a
project entitled: "Nanoelectrofluidic Systems: New Tools for
Nanoparticle Analysis." The PI's are: Sumita Pennathur (ME), Frederic Gibou (ME),
Todd Squires (ChemE), Paul Atzberger (Math and ME), and Andrew Cleland (Physics).
We are very excited about this team, and about the scientific
breakthroughs that this sort of funding will enable. The abstract of
this new project is given below:
ABSTRACT OF PROPOSAL:
October 19, 2010
On September 28, 2010, The National Research Council (NRC) published its
long-awaited report evaluating over 5,000 doctoral programs in 62 fields
at 212 universities in the United States.
April 19, 2010
Please join us in congratulating Professor Hyongsok (Tom) Soh for being named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2010. Professor Soh was only one of two Engineers to receive the award.More information can be found at the official UCSB press release and at the webpage of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
