Science + Technology

  • Promising Beginnings
    Thomas Sprague and Xin Zhou
    Two early-career faculty members receive awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • Transformations Demystified
    Trevor Hayton
    Chemistry professor Trevor Hayton receives Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
  • Tampering with the Brakes
    spilled shotglass
    Neuroscientist Karen Szumlinski uncovers an unlikely ‘brake’ mechanism that helps to modulate overdrinking
  • A Trailblazer
    Elisabeth Gwinn and students
    Physicist Elisabeth Gwinn receives the 2019 AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award
  • A Glimpse into the Future
    mode-locked quantum dot laser
    UCSB engineering professor John Bowers’ group develops a high-performance quantum dot mode-locked laser on silicon
  • ‘Improbable Things Happen’
    16th century Colombia and Venezuela
    Another early-onset Alzheimer’s gene mutation is found in a Colombian family, and is traced back to Africa

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  • The Lipshutz Research Group develops earth-friendly chemistry.
    The Lipshutz Research Group develops earth-friendly chemistry.
    Benign by Design

    Bruce Lipschutz and his team have discovered an ecofriendly catalyst for a certain type of precious metal-mediated chemical reaction

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