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UCSB Assistant Professors Receive National Science Foundation CAREER Awards

With combined grants totaling more than $1.3 million for their proposals integrating research and education, three assistant professors at UC Santa Barbara have received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards.

Katie Byl, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Theodore Kim, in the Media Arts and Technology program; and Megan Valentine, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, are UCSB’s CAREER honorees for 2013.

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UCSB Faculty Member Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship

David Weld, an assistant professor of physics at UC Santa Barbara, is among this year’s winners of Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is one of 126 fellowship winners announced Thursday, Feb. 14, by the Sloan Foundation.

The two-year fellowships are awarded to researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their fields. In the last eight years, Sloan Fellowships have been awarded to 16 UCSB faculty members.

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STAGE on BBC World Service Science in Action Radio Program

BBC World Service Radio Program Science in Action follows STAGE International Script Competition through its Fifth Cycle.

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Winner of the 5^th STAGE International Script Competition Announced

Ear to the Edge of Time, by Alana Valentine, wins prestigious 5^th STAGE International Script Competition
for best new play about science & technology.

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UC Santa Barbara Beckman Scholars Program Names 2012 Scholarship Recipients

UC Santa Barbara has named three additional undergraduates to its inaugural cohort of Beckman Scholars, bringing the current number of campus participants in the prestigious research-centered scholarship program to four.

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Assistant Professor Ania Blezynski Jayich Receives U.S. Presidential Science Award

Ania Bleszynski Jayich, an assistant professor in physics at UC Santa Barbara, has been awarded the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award is the highest honor the nation can bestow on a scientist or engineer at the beginning of his or her career.

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Grant to UC Santa Barbara Opens Avenues for Science-Minded Transfer Students

Study and training in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are increasingly seen as critical to the growth of the U.S. economy and to its competitiveness in global industry. Long devoted to advancing these areas, UC Santa Barbara is launching a new program intended to bolster the academic success of low-income community college students interested in pursuing STEM majors at UCSB.

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Finalists and Judges of the 5^th STAGE International Script Competition are Announced

Three playwrights stand poised to find out which of them will win the prestigious STAGE International Script Competition for the best new play about science and technology. The sole winner will be selected by a world-class panel of judges, all multiple award-winners in their own right: Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Olivier Award, Emmy Award, Obie Award, and Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award winner; David Lindsay-Abaire, Pulitzer Prize- winning playwright; Donald Margulies, Pulitzer Prize and Obie Award-winning playwright; Dr. Robert C. Richardson, Nobel Laureate in physics; Dr. Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate in physics; and Dr. David Wineland, winner of the National Medal of Science and the Benjamin Franklin Medal. More information about the three finalists is available in the press release below.

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Quantum Control Protocols Could Lead to More Accurate, Larger Scale Quantum Computations

A protocol for controlling quantum information pioneered by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in Delft, the Netherlands, and the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University could open the door to larger-scale, more accurate quantum computations. Their findings, in a paper titled “Decoherence-protected quantum gates for a hybrid solid-state spin register,” are published in the current issue of the journal Nature.

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Quantum Physics Research by UCSB Physicists Chosen as One of Physics World’s Top Ten Breakthroughs of 2011

Quantum hardware developed by physicists at UC Santa Barbara is among the Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs of 2011, as named by Physics World, the news organization of the Institute of Physics.

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