PECASE Award for Elliot Hawkes
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
He is recognized for his “vine” robots and record-setting jumping robots
Continue ReadingA Renovated Machine Shop for Mechanical Engineering Students
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Donors, faculty, students and staff recently celebrated the opening of the modernized space
Continue ReadingA Major Award to Improve Desalination
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Yangying Zhu is named one of the first 13 academics to receive a new ARPA-E IGNIITE grant
Continue ReadingA Catalyst to Discovery
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
New awards to study cancer dynamics and cardiac cells
Continue ReadingStudying 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 the ISS.
Continue ReadingResearchers 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.
Continue ReadingMaking 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
Continue ReadingBolin 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".
Continue ReadingRhythms of Nature: Understanding Synchrony in Oscillatory Systems
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Fireflies, pendulum clocks, our heart muscles and the neurons regulating our daily internal processes: these things all have a tendency toward synchrony.
Continue ReadingYangying Zhu Receives Two Early Career Awards
Friday, June 28, 2024
Yangying Zhu receives ARPA-E IGNIITE Early Career Award and the Outstanding Early Faculty Award at the µFIP Conference.
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