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UCSB Faculty receive Department of Energy research grants to advance the future of energy

With energy demand growing rapidly and fossil-fuel combustion driving climate change, it is increasingly critical that we transform how…

In the News, Research

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UCSB Faculty receive Department of Energy research grants to advance the future of energy

With energy demand growing rapidly and fossil-fuel combustion driving climate change, it is increasingly critical that we transform how…

In the News, Research

8/2018 newsletter

Newsletter: August 2018

IEE has released it's quarterly newsletter featuring news and research from April through July 2018. View the full newsletter at the…

Newsletter

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Rallying UC Campuses for Carbon Neutrality

Achieving the University of California’s goal of carbon neutrality by 2025, as proclaimed in its Carbon Neutrality Initiative, will…

In the News

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Engineering high-power hybrid battery-capacitor systems

Professor Galen Stucky and his team released their results on a new approach to making hybrid battery-capacitor systems using stacked…

Research

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Falling Costs will see Solar, Wind and Batteries Dominate Global Generation by 2050

Solar capacity is set for a 17-fold increase globally by 2050 owing to falling technology costs, particularly in battery energy storage…

General

NVC finalists

Photovoltaics efficiency technology takes top spot at 2018 New Venture Competition

Thanks to lightweight material and innovative and durable design along with a solid business plan, UC Santa Barbara student tech…

coral reef

Zegar Family Foundation gifts UCSB $1.04 million to address climate change through science

With a brilliance so stunning and species diversity so vast, coral reefs are perhaps the ocean’s most iconic ecosystem. Home to a…

In the News

Mengya Tao

Mengya Tao wins grand prize for her presentation at UCSB's 6th annual Grad Slam

Getting into graduate school can be very competitive, but once there, the students find the competition can be, well, downright fun — at…

Awards and Accolades, Graduate

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Shrinking the Optical Synthesizer

Only a few decades ago, finding a particular channel on the radio or television meant dialing a knob by hand and then making small…

In the News, Research

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Shrinking the Optical Synthesizer

Only a few decades ago, finding a particular channel on the radio or television meant dialing a knob by hand and then making small…

In the News, Research

rich wolski

Computer scientist Rich Wolski named to the Duval Family Presidential Chair in Energy Efficiency

Currently, data centers consume 1.5 percent of global energy use. A 1,000-fold increase in the volume of data is predicted by 2025, with…

Awards and Accolades

craig hawker

Materials Professor Craig Hawker Elected to 238th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Professors Leon Balents, Craig J. Hawker and Edward E. Telles have been elected members of the 238th class of the American…

Awards and Accolades, In the News

umesh mishra

Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Umesh Mishra to Deliver 2018 Faculty Research Lecture

As we hurtle into a future dominated by the Internet of Things, in which countless devices streamline our lives while producing a…

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