Craig Hawker receives the 2012 Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry
May 11th, 2012
The Centenary prize was founded in 1947 to commemorate the centenary of the Chemical Societys founding in 1841, and is awarded to outstanding international chemists, who are also exceptional communicators. The award honors Craig for his outstanding creative development of new strategies for the design of novel polymers which has revolutionized the ...Read More
Ed Kramer Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 17th, 2012
Edward Kramer, professor of Materials and Chemical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, has been elected a fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His selection brings to 29 the number of UCSB faculty that belong to the academy. ...Read More
Carlos Levi Elected Fellow of the American Ceramic Society
April 9th, 2012
Please join us in congratulating Carlos Levi for his election to Fellow of The American Ceramic Society. Congratulations on receiving this important and well deserved honor! ...Read More
Tom Soh receives the Humboldt Research Fellowship
April 9th, 2012
Prof. H. Tom Soh received the 2012 Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation in Germany. As a part of this award, Prof. Soh will be engaged in a collaborative project at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Berlin to develop high-throughput technologies to create novel mol ...Read More
Steve DenBaars Elected to NAE
February 9th, 2012
It is a great pleasure to announce that Steve DenBaars has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, "For contributions to gallium nitride-based materials and devices for solid state lighting and displays." ...Read More
Chris Van de Walle elected Fellow of IEEE
November 21st, 2011
Please join us in congratulating Chris Van de Walle for his election to Fellow of the IEEE. His fellow citation reads: "for contributions to the theory of interfaces, doping and defects in semiconductors". ...Read More
John Bowers receives 2012 John Tyndall Award
November 9th, 2011
The Optical Society (OSA) and the IEEE Photonics Society are pleased to announce that John Bowers, Fred Kavil Chair in Nanotechnology and Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the recipient of the 2012 John Tyndall Award. Bowers is being recognized for “pioneering research in hybrid-silic ...Read More
UCSB Materials Shuji Nakamura to Receive Emmy Award
September 14th, 2011
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has named Shuji Nakamura, professor of materials and of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara, among the winners of the 63rd Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards. ...Read More
Susanne Stemmer awarded Fellow, ACS
September 1st, 2011
We are delighted to learn that Susanne Stemmer has been awarded Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. ...Read More
UCSB Materials has 5 of the top 100 Highest Impact Materials Scientists
July 20th, 2011
UCSB Materials has 5 Professors in the top 100 Highest Materials Scientists List. Heeger, Stucky, Bazan, Wudl, and Hawker. ...Read More
Claude Weisbuch Awarded 20,000 Euro Leon Brillouin Prize
June 20th, 2011
Claude Weisbuch has been awarded the 20,000 Euro Leon Brillouin Prize from Société Française d Optique.
Claude will be honored at the Société Française d'Optique meeting first week in July in Marseille. ...Read More
New Issue of Advanced Materials features UCSB Materials Research
May 24th, 2011
The May 24, 2011 issue of Advanced Materials, one of the highest visibility journals in Materials research, presents a selection of the cutting-edge materials science research carried out at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The issue contains one Progress Report, three Research News articles and seventeen Communications with contributio ...Read More
Chris Van de Walle named a Fellow AAAS
January 3rd, 2011
We are delighted to learn that Chris Van de Walle has also been named a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)!
Chris was cited for "... for pioneering research on the theory of semiconductor interfaces and defects in solids, and for leadership in computational physics and materials science." ...Read More
Art Gossard named a Fellow AAAS
January 1st, 2011
We have just learned that Art Gossard has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
He is cited for his pioneering work on the growth of 2-D semiconductor heterostructures that resulted in the observation of the fractional quantum Hall effect. ...Read More
ZOK Leads winning Team in DARPA Challenge
December 10th, 2010
A UCSB team led by Professor Frank Zok has won DARPA’s Digital Manufacturing Analysis, Correlation and Estimation (DMACE) Challenge and will be awarded a $50,000 prize. The challenge was to predict the maximum compressive load that could be supported by digitally-manufactured titanium spheres and polymer cubes. In addition to Professor Zok, the UCS ...Read More
