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Oct 15
2024Chris Van de Walle, a distinguished professor of materials at UC Santa Barbara, has been awarded the American Physical Society’s 2025 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, the highest honor given by APS for work in that field. The prize, which dates back to 1993, honors Aneesur Rahman, a founder of the field of molecular dynamics who pioneered computational... read more » -
Oct 10
2024Daniel Oropeza, an assistant professor of materials at UC Santa Barbara, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Early Career Faculty Initiative grant. A joint endeavor between LLNL and UC National Laboratories at the UC Office of the President, the initiative seeks to foster long-term academic partnerships and provide... read more » -
Oct 4
2024UC Santa Barbara materials professor Stephen Wilson is among the 149 researchers who have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society (APS) for 2024. No more than one-half of one percent of the society’s 50,000 members receive the honor from their peers each year in recognition of their exceptional original research and publication, or significant innovative... read more » -
Sep 24
2024The Materials Department is excited to welcome our incoming class of graduate students! The 46 incoming students are about to start on an exciting adventure of research and learning, and we hope we can help them achieve their scientific and career goals. -
Sep 24
2024Lucas Erich, a second-year materials PhD student at UC Santa Barbara, has received a prestigious NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO) Fellowship. Sponsored by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, the NSTGRO program supports researchers pursuing ideas that show significant potential to contribute to the agency’s goal of creating innovative... read more » -
Sep 24
2024Two materials graduate students, Joshua Baston and Griffin Tong (pictured left to right), have won a significant national award to pursue their respective doctoral research projects. “This is a very competitive award, so we are proud of these students,” said Leila J. Rupp, Interim Anne and Michael Towbes Graduate Dean. “We also applaud their faculty advisors, who do the... read more » -
Sep 24
2024Prof. Raphaële Clément has been awarded the 2024 International Battery Association Early Career Research Award. The IBA Early Career Research Award is give to someone who has made outstanding contributions to advances in electrochemical energy conversion and storage research at an early career stage. Raphaële received the award at the IBA meeing in Halifax, Naov Scotia... read more » -
Sep 17
2024UC Santa Barbara materials professor Jim Speck is one of only eleven people — from an initial group of 170 applicants, of whom 27 were invited to submit full proposals — to have received a prestigious 2024 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) from the U.S. Department of Defense. The awards, up to $3 million each, allow recipients to “explore the frontiers of knowledge... read more » -
Aug 12
2024UC Santa Barbara materials assistant professor Daniel Oropeza has received the Global Young Investigator Award from the American Ceramic Society’s Engineering Ceramics Division. The annual accolade recognizes outstanding young ceramic engineers and scientists for their significant achievements to the field. “I am honored to be selected for this award and recognized as an... read more » -
Jul 16
2024Professor Shuji Nakamura has been selected to join the Engineering and Science Hall of Fame (ESHF). The professor of electrical and computer engineering and of materials was elected “for pioneering invention and development of the blue light emitting diode (LED), a major breakthrough in lighting technology which made possible the white light energy-efficient LED lighting... read more » -
Jun 10
2024Chiyo McMullin, a mechanical engineering undergraduate and undergraduate researcher in Tresa Pollock's research lab was one of the recipients of the College of Engineering’s 2024 Tirrell Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Research. The annual award, named in honor of the college’s former dean, Matthew Tirrell, recognizes a graduating senior for showing excellence and... read more » -
May 27
2024The 2024 STLE Annual Meeting & Exhibition took place in Minneapolis, MN, in May, showcasing advancements in tribology and lubrication engineering. Professor Angela Pitenis was recognized with the Early Career Award – Academic Professional Level for her exceptional contributions to the field. This prestigious award, presented annually to one assistant professor, aims... read more » -
Apr 30
2024Mark Turiansky, a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Van de Walle Computational Materials Group, was selected for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet and learn from a host of Nobel Laureates this summer in Germany. He is among 650 young scientists from throughout the world who will experience and contribute to the unique atmosphere of the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting... read more » -
Apr 30
2024Prof. Raphaële Clément has been selected as a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar for 2024. Those selected are within the first five years of their academic careers, have each created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are deeply committed to education. Each Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar receives an unrestricted research grant of $100,000. Prof. Clément's ... read more » -
Mar 12
2024A beloved campus colleague and one of the greatest technological visionaries of our time is gone. UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor Herb Kroemer, who earned a Nobel Prize for his seminal work on compound semiconductors, died March 8, at the age of 95. Born August 25, 1928, in Weimar, Germany, Professor Kroemer received a PhD in theoretical physics from Georg August... read more » -
Mar 7
2024UC Santa Barbara materials professor Tresa Pollock has been honored by her peers with the 2024 William D. Nix Award from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), a testament to her impact on materials, on graduate students as an advisor, and on junior professionals in the field as a mentor. The prestigious annual award recognizes an individual whose work has... read more » -
Feb 6
2024Materials faculty members Raphaële Clemént, Tresa Pollock, Angela Pitenis, Ananya Renuka Balakrishna, and Sriram Krishnamoorthy have received major instrumentation awards from the NSF, to continue maintaining and improving our world-class facilities. See the full story here. -
Feb 6
2024Congratulations Professor Irene Beyerlein, Mehrabian Interdisciplinary Professor in the College of Engineering, for election to the National Academy of Engineering 2024 Class. Here is the citation: Beyerlein, Irene J., Mehrabian Interdisciplinary Professor, College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara. For methodologies predicting the mechanics of... read more » -
Feb 2
2024The Materials Scientist Association (formerly known as the Materials Student Association) welcomes their newly elected leadership for 2024! President: Melina Endsley Secretary: Ashley Wissel-Garcia Treasurer: Kaitlyn Mullin GSA Representative: Nico Fuchs-Lynch First Year Representative: Rachel Kahler Social Committee Chair: Arturo Juan Professional Development Committee... read more » -
Dec 14
2023Professor Shuji Nakamura has received the 2023 LpS Digital Achievement Award from the LED professional Symposium, a large industrial consortium that supports LED research and applications. Prof. Nakamura was specifically recognized for "His impactful contributions to the energy and lighting sectors, his dedication to global sustainability, and his support for ongoing... read more » -
Nov 28
2023UCSB Materials Professor Chris Van de Walle has been awarded the 2023 Materials Theory Award from the Materials Research Society (MRS). The MRS is the leading professional society dedicated to advancing materials science. The society gives a single Theory Award each year, in recognition of “exceptional advances made by materials theory to the fundamental understanding of... read more » -
Nov 1
2023UCSB Materials welcomes Professor Jeff Sakamoto, who has been appointed as a Mehrabian Endowed Chancellor's Chair starting on November 1, 2023. Prof. Sakamoto’s research focuses on the area of functional ceramics. Ceramics are an important materials class ubiquitously found in a variety of applications, from high thermal barrier coatings, to thermoelectrics,... read more » -
Oct 2
2023The Materials Department is excited to welcome our incoming class of graduate students! The 13 students pictured are about to start on an exciting adventure of research and learning, and we hope we can help them achieve their scientific and career goals. -
Jun 30
2023UC Santa Barbara’s Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) has received its seventh consecutive major grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund six years of operation as an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). Widely regarded as one of the top five materials research facilities in the world, the MRL, which obtained its first MRSEC... read more » -
Jun 30
2023UCSB Materials Professor Raphaële Clément has been awarded the 2023 Materials Today Rising Star Award and the ISE Prize for Electrochemical Materials Science. The MT energy Rising Star Award is awarded in recognition of the contributions of an early career scientist in energy materials. Professor Clément's contributions to the materials community by way of research and... read more »
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