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How to retire coal, smarter and faster: New UCSB study offers data-driven strategies for shuttering America’s remaining coal plants

Even as coal power continues its steady decline in the United States, more than a hundred plants still have no retirement plans — a gap…

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Three UCSB Teams Receive IEE Seed Funding for Energy Efficiency Research

This month, three UCSB projects received awards from the Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE). The IEE’s Research Seed and…

Awards and Accolades, General, In the News, Newsletter, Research

Professor Daniel Blumenthal's lab develops chip-scale components that can bring the power and precision of quantum science outside of the tightly controlled environment of the lab.

Chip-scale Cold Atom and Trapped Ion Experiments Can Unleash the Power of Quantum Science in the Field

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the Universe and exploring the quantum…

In the News, Research

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Professor Shuji Nakamura featured as the Thomas A. Edison Memorial Lecturer in Washington DC

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) proudly hosted the Thomas A. Edison Memorial Lecture, featuring Professor Shuji Nakamura, 2014…

Alumni, Awards and Accolades, In the News, Research

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GM’s Home-Grown LMR Battery Opens New Front in EV Competition

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01 JUL 2025

Lithium iron phosphate (LFP)…

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xGFabric

This initiative is part of a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant to research and develop the next generation of distributed…

Research

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Engineering Social Impact at UCSB


With the continuing federal assaults on science, you might think climate science research has ground to a halt. Fortunately, UCSB…

Awards and Accolades, In the News, Research

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John Bowers honored with 23rd William Gould Dow Distinguished Lectureship

Bowers gave an overview of historical and current research on integrating silicon photonics and lasers into circuits.

Awards and Accolades, Research

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Quantum entangled photons on demand

Entangled photons are at the heart of a variety of different and powerful quantum applications. By…

In the News, Research

Lithium-ion batteries power everything from cell phones to laptops

Lithium shows its metal, paving the way for better batteries

Lithium-ion batteries today are nearly ubiquitous, powering everything from cell phones to laptops. Small wonder, then, that scientists…

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Inspired by early biomimetic approaches, Kerem Çamsarı’s work evokes features of neural connectivity

By harnessing the power of randomness, Kerem Çamsarı and his research team are paving the way for technology that mimics the human brain…

Research

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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…

Awards and Accolades, Research

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UCSB's Team Klaatu Designs Innovative Farming Robot, Gort

Team Klaatu, a team comprised of students from UCSB and advised by Professors Chandra Krintz and Rich Wolski, recently designed an…

General, Research

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2023-2024 IEE Seed & IGSB SW Impact Grant Applications Are Now Open!

The Institute for Energy Efficiency is pleased to announce that applications for our 2023-2024 Seed Grant and IGSB SW Impact Grant are…

Research

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Researchers Develop a Scaled-up Spintronic Probabilistic Computer

Researchers at Tohoku University, the University of Messina, and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have developed a…

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