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Exciting News! 🎓✨ Our new online professional master’s program—the Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership (METL)—is launching in Fall 2026: We Are Hiring its Executive Director! Join us in building the future of engineering @ucsantabarbara : lnkd.in/gbe5fhHUJoin

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Excited to share our new paper in @PNASNews doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…! Ice cubes often appear cloudy because, as water freezes, air bubbles get trapped and scatter light. But how does freezing rate affect the shape of the bubbles? @UMDResearch @UCSBengineering @PMMH_lab @poftwente

Congratulations to @UCSBChE Professor M. Scott Shell for being elected a Fellow of the AIChE, @ChEnected! This honor recognizes his groundbreaking work in multiscale modeling, revolutionizing how scientists study complex molecular systems. 🧪🥼 ow.ly/gPIe50V741a

Read materials professor emeritus and Nobel laureate Alan Heeger's biography:

"I was born on a bitter cold morning... When my father went out to visit his wife and newborn first son, his car would not start. He walked to the hospital; his ears were frostbitten on the way." Read chemistry laureate Alan Heeger's biography: bit.ly/35GFB9S

Join us for Gauchos In Tech 3.0: Your Future Career in Tech!👩‍💻 Gain insights, connect with professionals, and explore career opportunities in tech. The event will include a networking lunch reception. Register here: buff.ly/4hk5j9a

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Since its inception 25 years ago, UCSB’s SSLEEC has generated leading-edge results through sustained collaborations. Breakthrough advancements include an increase in LED efficiency, the development of MicroLEDs, and novel applications in high-electron-mobility transistors.

We are extremely proud of the fact that we innovate for social impact in UCSB’s College of Engineering. One prime example of this is the decades of research in the domain of gallium nitride, or GaN.💡

@UCSBBioE @AmericanCancer @NIH Stowers and his co-principal investigator, Beth Pruitt, a mechanical engineering professor and chair of @ucsbbioe, also recently received a grant from @nih_nhlbi. The pair will receive nearly $430,000 over 2 years to gain insight into cardiomyopathy.🫀

Ryan Stowers, an assistant professor in the departments of @ucsbbioe and Mechanical Engineering, recently received a boost of nearly $600,000 in combined funding from the @AmericanCancer Society and the @NIH for his work in mechanobiology.👏 Read more: buff.ly/4arH1Y4

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Emilie Dressaire, assistant professor in the @UCSantaBarbara Mechanical Engineering Department, sent nine experiments to the International Space Station (ISS) last year to research the use of surfactant replacement therapy (SRT) in treating respiratory distress syndrome (RDS).🚀

@ucsbece “These smaller lasers will enable scalable solutions for actual quantum systems, as well as lasers for portable, field-deployable and space-based quantum sensors,” said Andrei Isichenko, a graduate student researcher in Blumenthal’s lab. Read more: buff.ly/4haLros

While conventional lab-scale laser technology is currently confined to bulky, costly tabletop systems, the team in @ucsbece professor Daniel Blumenthal’s lab is working to recreate the performance of these lasers on lightweight devices that can fit in the palm of your hand.

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Winter quarter is the perfect time to cozy up with our newest issue of Convergence magazine!❄️ This edition highlights how UCSB solidified itself as a hotspot in #quantum research by securing a $25-million @NSF grant to establish the nation’s first NSF Quantum Foundry (QF).🏆

Life update: Excited to announce that I’ll be joining UCSB CS (@ucsbcs) as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2025—where my research dream began! If you’re interested in PhD research (3+ openings) on multimodal, GenAI, or agents (embodied/digital), apply to UCSB CS by Dec 15! 1/n