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Tracy Dyson conducts experiments in space

Studying Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Space

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Emilie Dressaire, an assistant professor in the UCSB Mechanical Engineering Department, had an intimate look at the International Space Station (ISS) last year, spending time inside it via Zoom as she worked with an astronaut to fix a problem with one of nine onboard experiments she had sent to t

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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

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

The Bolin Liao lab has achieved the first-ever “movie” of the phenomenon.

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Yangying Zhu Accepting Award

Making Desalination More Efficient, By Way of Renewable Energy

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Mechanical engineer Yangying Zhu is among the first 13 academics to receive the inaugural IGNIITE grant

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Bolin Liao Awarded NSF Grant on AI-Enhanced Material-Device Codesign of Boron Arsenide as the Next-Generation Semiconductor

Friday, September 20, 2024

Team led by Bolin Liao has been awarded a $1.9M NSF grant on "AI-Enhanced Material-Device Codesign of Boron Arsenide as the Next-Generation Semiconductor". 

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