In the last six months, Professor Bolin Liao has received early career awards from the U.S. Army Research Office, U. S. Department of Energy and now the National Science Foundation.  The project periods of these three awards span a total of five years with combined research funding of $1,610,000.

Milo Sensors was awarded 1st place honors and a $75,000 investment at the Vertical Venture Partners 2018 University of California Startup Showcase.

CNSI is pleased to announce  that four proposals submitted through our department for the prestigious DOE Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) competition were successful.  Rachel Segalman will co-lead the "Center for Materials for Water and Energy Systems - M-WET)" with UT Austin and Ram Seshadri/Anton Van der Ven will co-lead with UCLA (lead campus) the "Center for Synthetic Control Across Length-scales for Advancing Rechargeables (SCALAR)”.  Ania Bleszynski Jayich will participate in a LBNL-led EFRC project, entitled, "Novel Pathways to Quantum Coherence in Materials (CNPQCM)."  Additi

CNSI Director Craig J. Hawker has been elected as a member of the 238th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His selection, one of three UCSB faculty members, brings the total number of UCSB faculty members who have been named fellows of the academy to 37.  The academy is an independent policy research center that conducts interdisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems.