The achievements of UCSB Materials graduate students speak for themselves: significant contributions to their disciplines, groundbreaking research, and prestigious fellowships. Our graduate students engage in interdisciplinary research collaborations unique to the UCSB environment. Mentored by world-class faculty and researchers, our students and are the scientists and engineers making global contributions to the field of materials. Here are some highlights of achievements over the years, and our most recent achievement news headlines.
Graduate Student Honors
BRIDGE TO DOCTORATE
- Eliovardo Gonzalez-Correa (2018)
doe computational science graduate fellowship
- Jonas Kaufman (2017)
Doe NNSA stewardhip science graduate fellowship
- Lauren Smith (2019)
HERTZ FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP
- Nicole Michenfelder-Schauser (2016)
NASA SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
- Caelin Muir (2019)
- Jeffrey Rossin (2018)
- Bhavana Swaminathan (2017)
NATIONAL DEFENSE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS
- Lillian Hughes (2021)
- Emily Morgan (2021)
- Virginia Collier (2019)
- Flynn Walsh (2018)
- Rhys Kennard (2017)
- Brandon Leu (2017)
- Sean Murray (2017)
- Claire Weaver (2017)
- Eric Yao (2016)
National Science Foundation Fellowships
- Patrick Getty (2021)
- Binghao Guo (2021)
- Lillian Hughes (2021)
- Emily Morgan (2021)
- Kaitlyn Mullin (2021)
- Allison Chau (2020)
- Emily Foley (2020)
- Justin Mayer (2020)
- Colleen Reynolds (2020)
- Rebecca Vincent (2020)
- Virginia Collier (2019)
- Jacob Ewing (2019)
- Steven Gomez (2019)
- Eliovardo Gonzalez-Correa (2019)
- Alexander Lygo (2019)
- Yuzki Oey (2019)
- Tyler Pardue (2019)
- Elias Sebti (2019)
- Vincent Wu (2019)
- Julia Zuo (2019)
- Victoria Christensen (2018)
- Brian Haidet (2018)
- Nelson Moreno (2018)
- Samuel Teicher (2018)
- Mikayla Barry (2017)
- Veronica Reynolds (2017)
- Jordan Smith (2017)
- Ryan White (2017)
- Mayela Aldaz-Cervantes (2017)
- Elayne Thomas (2017)
- Sara Messina (2016)
- Glenn Balbus (2016)
- Mitchell Bordelon (2016)
- Nicole Michenfelder-Schauser (2016)
- Andrew Rowberg (2016)
- Christian Zollner (2016)
- Joshua Bocarsly (2016)
- Jennifer Selvidge (2016)
Science mathematics and research for transformation
- Nolan Hendricks (2019)
UCSB Graduate Division Fellowships
- Graciela Garcia Ponte (2019)
- Elizabeth Hallett (2019)
- Lillian Hughes (2019)
- Colton D'Ambra (2018)
- Carolina Frey(2018)
- Alexander Lygo (2018)
- Kira Pusch (2018)
- Michael Seas (2018)
- Emily Wonder (2018)
- Michael Ford (2017)
- Megan Butala (2016)
- Nicole Michenfelder-Schauser (2016)
- Emily Schueller (2016)
- Christian Zollner (2016)
