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UCSB has recieved a $2.2 million in funding from Assembly Bill 2664, which will help foster growth in the Technology Management Program, California Nanosystems Institute and the Bren School, among many other campus programs.

FLOW provides non-equity money for start-ups to field test and develop a commercial product. Application open until March 1st!

Two UCSB Graduate school programs are ranked in the top ten in the nation, with the Materials program coming in at number one among public institutions.

AIM Photonics has announced a project with the Department of Defense to help develop sensors for applications in environmental monitoring, detection of chemical and biological weapons, disease diagnosis, and food safety.

On Tuesday March 21st, graduate students from the UCSB Student Chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society hosted a demo table at the 2017 OFC “optical fiber communications” conference in Los Angeles.

The Institute for Energy Efficiency is excited to announce a new self-nominating fellowship opportunity for continuing graduate students! Please find criteria and proposal instructions below.

The Szilagyi Energy Breakthrough Fellowships are made possible through the generous support of Gary and Tammy Szilagyi. These fellowships for continuing graduate students are intended as seed funding for new energy breakthrough ideas leading to potential commercialization. Now accepting applications for 2017-18, submissions due by 5/29/17. 

A utility-scale microgrid in Illinois could help the technology gain wider adoption. 

“Drawdown,”a new book edited by green entrepreneur Paul Hawken, analyzes 100 potential solutions, ranks them, and reaches some conclusions about the most effective ways to fight global warming. Can you figure out which ones are top ranked?

"Drawdown," a book edited by green entrepreneur Paul Hawken, measures, models and describes the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming. This table provides the detailed results of the Plausible Scenario, which models the growth solutions on the Drawdown list based on a reasonable, but vigorous rate from 2020-2050. 

Solar capacity is set for a 17-fold increase globally by 2050 owing to falling technology costs, particularly in battery energy storage, and a decline in the levelised cost of electricity (LCOE), according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).