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Lower Emissions, More Heat: Climate Change Update

US carbon pollution dropped by 10.3% in 2020 to the lowest level in three decades, according to an estimate from Rhodium Group…

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Recognizing Innovation

COVID-19 can be transmitted when an infected…

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Royal Recognition

Joining such notables as Nelson Mandela, Marie Curie and Adam Smith, industrial ecologist Sangwon Suh has become an invited…

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Power, Water and Climate

As the planet continues to warm, the twin challenges of diminishing water supply and growing energy demand will intensify. But water and…

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Henley Hall Laboratory Update - Dec 2020

With the Institute for Energy Efficiency’s state-of-the-art Henley Hall now up and…

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Institute for Energy Efficiency settles into its state-of-the-art new home, donor-funded Henley Hall

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - Santa Barbara, CA:  Their award-winning research has been the foundation for numerous energy-saving…

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An emerging generation of artificial intelligence could get one step closer to passing the Turing test — a means of determining whether…

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Institute for Energy Efficiency Announces 2020-2021 Excellence in Research and Frenkel Foundation Fellows

IEE selected this year’s Excellence in Research and Frenkel Foundation fellows. The IEE Excellence in Research Graduate…

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Excellence Cited

Clarivate Analytics names 14 UC Santa Barbara scientists and social scientists, including IEE Director John Bowers, to its 2020 list of…

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2020 Emerging Technologies Review

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IEE Awards Seed Funding to Three High-Impact Efficiency Projects 2020-2021

Three projects with high-impact potential seeking to solve grand challenges of energy efficiency have been awarded seed funding from UC…

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From the Poles to the Stars

On November 16, 2019, pilot and author Robert DeLaurentis took off on an ambitious adventure. Setting out from San Diego county’s…

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Moving Bits, Not Watts

The phrase “too much of a good thing” may…

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Quantum Future

The nation is poised to usher in a new era of knowledge and innovation in the quantum sciences, thanks to a new crop of federally-funded…

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Building An Ideal MOSFET

As our electronics continue to proliferate…

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