Matter & Energy

February 28, 2021

UCSB STEM Disciplines Come Together To Study Cell Polarization

By Sean Crommelin

Banavar and her collaborators were interested in understanding how cells understand their own geometry and maintain polarity.

February 25, 2021

UCSB Professor Who Invented Blue LEDs Wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

By Devanshi Tomar

Since 1995, Nakamura has received numerous accolades for his achievements in the field, namely his efforts to create cheap and efficient sources of light.

June 9, 2020

Advancing Green Chemistry With Professor Adeyemi Adeleye

By Sean Crommelin

Adeleye spoke on two particular ways that his graduate students have been developing methods and processes to improve pollution remediation with green chemistry.

May 1, 2020

Assessing Sand Demand for a Low-Carbon Transition in Infrastructure

By Anna Basa

With ecological sustainability in mind, researchers aimed to highlight the limitations of a future that implements a low-carbon transition in infrastructure when utilizing natural sand as “relief”

February 13, 2020

Molecular Engineering of Materials for Chemical Sensing and Metal-Organic Frameworks

By Surya Pugal

Currently, Mirica heads a research group whose main focus is “working with different realms of materials to try and find overarching emerging common properties.”