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 The nation’s outgoing energy czar, Steven Chu, came to Santa Barbara on Wednesday to kick off the UC Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency, a two-day conference at the Fess Parker Doubletree focused on innovations in the development of materials “for a more sustainable energy future.”
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 UC Santa Barbara was ranked #2 in the latest rankings by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands, second only to MIT. The Ranking is a compilation of the top 500 universities worldwide with the largest publication output in the Web of Science database.
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 Institute faculty Galen Stucky has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for his contributions to research in materials, inorganic chemistry, and other fields. Membership in the NAS is one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States.
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 The Alliance Commission on National Energy Efficiency Policy has released Energy 2030: a set of policy recommendations to reach a goal of doubling U.S. energy productivity by 2030. Click here to download the report.
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 The Institute is pleased to announce that Daniel Morse, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, has recently been selected as a Lifetime Fellow of the Materials Research Society.
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 The Institute convened 27 leading stakeholders from the field of Information and Communications Technologies for a workshop on Feb 7-8. Discussions focused on needed advancements in technology and architecture to develop scalable, energy-efficient, future core networks.
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