UC Santa Barbara announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations grant winner; CGE is an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. David Low, a professor in UCSB’s Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project titled “Strategy for development of enteric pathogen-specific T2 bacteriophage targeting the essential outer membrane protein BamA.”

Santa Barbara tech startup, Milo Sensors, Inc., wins 2nd place and $100,000 in National Institutes of Health’s challenge to design and produce a low profile, wearable blood alcohol sensor.
Milo was selected out of a nationwide pool by the National Institutes Health and, specifically, the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, based on the evaluation of numerous criteria including accuracy, reliability, design appeal, and function.

Former Elings Fellowship recipient, Himanshu Mishra, had a recent article published in ACS Applied Science & Interfaces magazine regarding "Time-Dependent Wetting Behavior of PDMS Surfaces with Bioinspired, Hierarchical Structures." Please see the link below to the pdf containing his abstract, images, and more.

The science of nanomaterials and devices has advanced rapidly in the last couple of decades. Think atomically flat graphene crystals, which could have important functions in electronics or new superconductors, which could lead to low-cost medical imaging.

UC Santa Barbara physicist Andrea Young is ready to further advance the field of developing and characterizing nanostructured materials, thanks to a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program.