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Leah Stokes: 2024 Stephen Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication

Climate One is delighted to present the 2024 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication to political…

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Professor John Bowers Honored as One of The Photonics100 for 2025

We are thrilled to announce that Professor John Bowers has been recognized as one of The Photonics100 for 2025. This prestigious…

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National LED Light Day

October 7th marks National LED Light Day, a celebration of one of the most significant advancements in lighting technology. LEDs, or…

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Professor Leah Stokes Named a Forbes Sustainability Leader

Forbes has honored Professor Leah Stokes, the Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics at UC Santa Barbara, as one of…

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Yangying Zhu (right), assistant professor in the UCSB Mechanical Engineering Department, receives her award certificate from ARPA-E Program Director Dr. Evelyn Wang at the National Academy of Sciences, in Washington, D.C.

Making desalination more efficient, by way of renewable energy

With freshwater becoming an ever scarcer resource, desalination of ocean water is increasingly…

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IEE Professor Raphaële Clément Wins Highly Esteemed 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

Raphaële Clément, Assistant Professor of Materials at UCSB and IEE-affiliated faculty member, recently won the 2024 Camille Dreyfus…

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IEE's M. Scott Shell elected AAAS Fellow

Two professors in UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering, Beth Pruitt and M. Scott Shell, have received a…

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IEE Faculty William Wang Receives Prestigious Early Career Award

Author: Sonia Fernandez for UCSB's The Current

 

As artificial intelligence…

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IEE Faculty Eric Masanet Appointed to Federal Advisory Committee To Reduce Emissions Across the Industrial Sector

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the appointment of 18 science, business, academic, and industry leaders to the…

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Bowers Selected for 2024 IEEE Nishizawa Medal

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IEE Postdoc Chen Shang Receives 2023 Tinge Li Innovation Prize

Chen Shang, a Postdoctoral Scholar in Professor John Bowers' group, has received the 2023 Tingye Li Innovation Prize at CLEO! This award…

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IEE Professor Jon Balkind Receives NSF CAREER Award to Develop New Application for Cloud Computing

Jonathan Balkind, an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at UCSB was recently awarded an NSF Early CAREER Award for "Enhancing…

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IEE Professor William Wang Receives the Karen Spärck Jones Award

When UC Santa Barbara computer science professor William Wang(link is external) received a call from an unfamiliar number at 7…

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The Association for Computing Machinery names IEE Professor Tim Sherwood as a 2022 ACM Fellow

Tim Sherwood, a Professor in Computer Science at UCSB, was recently selected as a 2022 ACM Fellow by the Association for Computing…

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Insight and Influence: Clarivate Analytics names 10 scientists and social scientists to its 2022 list of highly cited researchers

Ten UC Santa Barbara researchers have been named among the most influential scientists in the world, according to the 2022 Highly Cited…

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John Bowers Elected AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the…

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