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Nov 7
2022For decades, environmentalists have decried ocean desalination as an ecological disaster, while cost-savvy water managers have thumbed their noses at desal’s lofty price tag. But as the American Southwest barrels into a new era of extreme heat, drought and aridification, officials and conservationists are giving new consideration to the process of converting saltwater... read more » -
Oct 17
2022By Sue Marek Environmentally friendly or sustainable business practices are an integral part of all industries, and the telecom sector is not immune. Not only is being “green” good for the environment, it’s also good for business because companies that are committed to energy-saving initiatives are popular with consumers and with investors. Frontier Communications, which... read more » -
Aug 30
2022Dear Members of Our Campus Community, In my campus memo of June 21, I shared with you the news that our College of Creative Studies Dean Gerardo Aldana decided to return to teaching and research. We are grateful for his dedicated leadership and service, especially during the challenges of the pandemic. We also announced that our former long-term Dean Bruce Tiffney... read more » -
Aug 8
2022By Harrison Tasoff The economy of Southern Africa is rapidly developing, driving a growing demand for electricity. Efficiently meeting this demand will require balancing social, economic, geographic, technological and environmental considerations. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara led an international team that analyzed the region’s resources and power grid. Using this... read more » -
Jun 16
2022The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) has created a crisis in computing and a significant need for more hardware that is both energy-efficient and scalable. In both AI and ML, a key step is making decisions based on incomplete data, and the best approach for this is to output a probability for each possible answer. Current classical computers... read more » -
Jun 9
2022Faculty at UC Santa Barbara seeking to develop breakthrough energy-efficient software will have the opportunity to receive seed funding thanks to a new $450,000 gift to the College of Engineering’s Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) from the Investment Group of Santa Barbara (IGSB). The firm offers early-stage investments to companies with outstanding business models... read more » -
Mar 15
2022Kerem Çamsari, an assistant professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department, has received a prestigious Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR). One of thirty-two junior faculty nationwide selected by ONR in 2022, he will receive a three-year, $510,000 grant in support of his work to design a probabilistic computer... read more » -
Feb 9
2022"We catch up with the 2006 Millennium Technology Prize winner, Shuji Nakamura, to reflect on the impact of the award, his illuminating LED invention – and what he’s achieved since. Shuji Nakamura astonished the scientific community in 1993. More than a century after Thomas Edison created the incandescent lightbulb, Professor Nakamura took the last step in finding a super-... read more » -
Feb 3
2022Three UC Santa Barbara professors selected to serve as authors on the Fifth National Climate Assessment Three UC Santa Barbara professors — Halley Froehlich(link is external), Eric Masanet(link is external) and Lint Barrage(link is external) — have been selected by the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) to serve as authors for the Fifth... read more » -
Jan 26
2022The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected six faculty from UC Santa Barbara, including John Bowers, a distinguished professor in the Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments, to its newest class of AAAS Fellows, among the... read more » -
Jan 20
2022Lithium (Li) is the active ingredient in rechargeable batteries that power today’s smart phones, laptops and electric vehicles. However, lithium’s scarcity and high price have led researchers to seek another, more abundant element to replace it. Many have turned to sodium (Na), which is below lithium in the periodic table and shares many of its properties. Sodium is... read more » -
Dec 14
2021IEE Director John Bowers has been selected as a top researcher to participate in Intel’s recently opened Intel® Research Center for Integrated Photonics for Data Center Interconnects. This center will focus on research accelerating optical I/O technology innovation in performance scaling and integration. Intel acknowledges that collaboration with academia to develop new... read more » -
Dec 14
2021Four professors in UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering have been recognized by their peers as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical professional organization, announced its major awards and recognitions for 2022. Umesh Mishra, the Donald W. Whittier Distinguished Professor in the Electrical and Computer... read more » -
Dec 13
2021Silicon photonics research and commercialization has intensified as both photonic component performance and photonic integration complexity have been dramatically improved and expanded in the past decade. Silicon photonics enables a wide range of applications from datacom and telecom to sensors including light detection and ranging (LIDAR), gyroscopes, biosensors, and... read more » -
Dec 10
2021Henley Hall was recently the recipient of several awards recognizing its unprecedented design and sustainable architecture. The four most recent awards are as follows, both the AIA Pennsylvania Architecture Merit Award and COTE (Committee on the Environment) Award of Excellence, AIA Santa Barbara Honor Architecture Award, and the AIA Philadelphia Architecture Award. Each... read more » -
Dec 3
2021The sleek and shimmering modern building that houses UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency is earning major accolades for its overall design and for its sustainability features. Designed by the firm KieranTimberlake, a leader in practice-based architectural research and sustainable buildings, Henley Hall has received The American Architecture Award for 2021.... read more »
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