Yangying Zhu and Ryan Stowers 2023 Hellman Family Faculty Fellowship Recipients

Monday, May 8, 2023

Two faculty members received Hellman Family Faculty Fellowships this year:  Yangying Zhu for a project entitled “Blood-vessel-inspired cooling of batteries using internal convective flow”, and Ryan Stowers for a project entitled “Engineered 3D platform for ex vivo patient-derived tumoroid culture”.

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New Assistant Professor Ousmane Kodio Article Selected for Cover of Physics Review Letters

Friday, May 5, 2023

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Capstone in the News

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

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Congrats! Professor Enoch Yeung has won a NSF Career Award

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Professor Enoch Yeung has won an NSF Career Award!  The title of his project is "A Novel Framework for Measuring and Engineering Twisting and Writhing in DNA". 

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Congratulations Anna and Daniella- NSF GRFP 2023 Recipients!

Friday, April 21, 2023

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Congratulations, Younghoon Kwon: Emerging Soft Matter Excellence Award Finalist

Friday, March 24, 2023

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Highlighting UCSB Soft Matter

Friday, March 24, 2023

Two papers from the UC Santa Barbara Mechanical Engineering Department have been selected by the Soft Matter Editorial Board as part of their 2022 Highlights Collection.  According to the journal: this online collection of twenty papers “features some of the most exciting articles published in Soft Matter during 2022.”  Al Crosby (Editor in Chief) reflects: “2022 was an exciting year for Soft Matter! So many great papers advancing the field and demonstrating its extensive, positive impact. To try to capture this exciting year in Soft Matter, the Editorial Board has selected these Soft Matter papers as a highlight collection”. 

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The Future of Touch Researchers uncover physical limitation in haptic holography

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Haptic holography promises to bring virtual reality to life, but a new study reveals a surprising physical obstacle that will need to be overcome.

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Congratulations Alban Sauret: APS Gallery of Soft Matter Winner

Monday, March 13, 2023

Congratulations Alban Sauret: APS Gallery of Soft Matter Winner

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Congratulations Irene Beyerlein: 2023 TMS Fellow Award

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Congratulations to Professor Irene Beyerlein for being named a 2023 Fellow of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS)

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