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CNSI Uses 3D Printers to Make Protective Gear

March 29, 2020

CNSI's Innovation Workshop and Microfluidics Laboratory Manager, Dave Bothman, is leading CNSI's effort to 3D print face shields for local hospitals and law enforcement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Quantum Supremacy-UCSB/Google Team Quantum Computing Breakthrough

October 23, 2019

Researchers led by UC Santa Barbara/Google Scientist John Martinis demonstrate the power of 53 entangled qubits in a cover article published in Nature followed by a feature in Scientific American.

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New APS Fellows: CNSI Members M. Valentine, M. Chabinyc and O. Saleh

October 15, 2019

CNSI Members Professors Megan Valentine (CNSI Associate Director), Michael Chabinyc and Omar Saleh elected as APS Fellows.

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Scientists to Watch - M. O'Malley and A. Young

October 02, 2019

Associate Professor Michelle O'Malley and Assistant Professor Andrea Young are named by ScienceNews as ten early- and mid-career scientists to watch. Nominated by Nobel laureates and recently elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, these scientists are focusing on science's big questions.

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CNSI Incubator member Milo Sensors secures Phase II SBIR funding from NIH

September 25, 2019

Milo Sensors, Inc., a CNSI Technology Incubator company, has secured a $2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Quantum Foundry launched with a $25M NSF award

September 16, 2019

$25M grant makes UC Santa Barbara home to the nation’s first NSF-funded Quantum Foundry, a center for development of materials and devices for quantum information-based technologies.

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PIPELINES selected as 2019 Program to Watch by Excelencia in Education

August 16, 2019

CNSI's Problem-based Initiatives for Powerful Engagement and Learning In Naval Engineering and Science (PIPELINES) program has been selected as a 2019 Program to Watch by Excelencia in Education. Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004, accelerates Latino student success in higher education to address the U.S. economy’s need for a highly educated workforce and for civic leadership. Led by Dr.

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Mentium Technologies joins Silicon Catalyst

August 01, 2019

CNSI Technology Incubator member company Mentium Technologies has joined the semiconductor industry’s highly acclaimed incubation program at Silicon Catalyst, the world’s only incubator focused exclusively on solutions in silicon.

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Bolin Liao receives third early-career award this year

March 28, 2019

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.

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UCSB researchers receive U.S. DOE grant to build atom-defect hybrid quantum sensor

March 05, 2019

UCSB physicists Ania Jayich and David Weld, and materials scientist Kunal Mukherjee, have received a research grant to develop atom-defect hybrid quantum systems. This research has been funded with a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Sciences.

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