CNSI Director Craig Hawker was awarded the Charles G. Overberger International Prize by the American Chemical Society for Excellence in Polymer Research.  This biennial award recognizes and encourages accomplishments of unusual merit in the field of basic or applied polymer science. 

Sumita Pennathur, UCSB Mechanical Engineering Professor, received a five-year, $1.625 Million 'Visionary Award' for diabetes research from the American Diabetes Association facilitated by the CNSI Challenge Grant Program.

Additional details in UCSB Current article (link below).

For a second year, CNSI will co-sponsor the Startup Village at the Central Coast Innovation Awards hosted by the Pacific Coast Business Times. The Startup Village showcases emerging and mid-growth companies from throughout the Central Coast, from San Luis Obispo to Thousand Oaks. CNSI Incubator member companies NEXT Energy and bioProtonics are among the list of 30 participating startups. The Startup Village will take place on March 16, 2017, at the Bacara Resort, and will precede the Innovation Awards ceremony in which Prof.

UC Santa Barbara has received $2.2 million in one-time funding, designated specifically to boost research innovation and spur economic development, from the state of California. The funds are a share of a total $22 million investment, to be divided among the UC system’s 10 campuses, that comes in the form of Assembly Bill 2664, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Expansion Initiative authored by Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, and signed last fall by Gov. Jerry Brown.