Fall 2008 E-Newsletter • CNSI at UC Santa Barbara

What's New at CNSI

New Faculty and Staff

The CNSI community has grown in recent months with the addition of Professors: Michael Chabinyc (Materials), Chris Palmstrom (ECE), Jamie Thomson (Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology), Luke Theogarajan (ECE), and Megan Valentine (Mechanical Engineering), plus CNSI staff members: Lauren Linn (Events and Visitor Coordinator) and Lynne Leininger (Acting Financial Assistant). (More...)

Shared Facilities

A number of shared laboratory facilities are being designed to assist researchers with nanofabrication and analysis. The CNSI continues to develop its Biological Nanostructures Lab (BNL), Chemical Nanostructures Lab (CNL), and NanoStructures Cleanroom Facility (NCF). (More...)

New CNSI Website Now Live

The CNSI website underwent a major structural and design overhaul prior to its re-launch in September. The new site includes new expanded research, facilities and administrative areas providing information to better serve the CNSI community. (More...)

Announcing Funding Opportunities

CNSI Graduate Student Fellowships

CNSI has awarded two Graduate Student Fellowships to incoming graduate students Zoltan Mester (Chemical Engineering) and Jinpeng Wang (Mechanical Engineering). Each fellowship will provide $50K of student support per year for three years. (More...)

Elings Prize Fellowships in Experimental Science

The Elings Prize postdoctoral fellowships provide a salary of $60,000/yr for two years, renewable for a third, along with benefits and research funds. Application deadline is December 31, 2008. (More...)

CNSI Research Seed Grants

CNSI will be accepting proposals from CNSI-UCSB faculty members for Research Seed Funding Grants in amounts up to $50,000 to provide early funding support for innovative, high risk/high reward research projects. (More...)

CNSI Equipment Matching Funds

CNSI will be offering matching funds towards the purchase of equipment to be housed in the developing CNSI Multi-User Facilities. First application deadline is January 15, 2009. (More...)

Program Highlights

UCSB SACNAS Chapter Selected as National Chapter of the Year

The UCSB Student Chapter of SACNAS (the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science), sponsored by the CNSI Education Programs, has been selected as the National Chapter of the Year out of 30+ student chapters across the nation. (More...)

Center For Polymers And Organic Solids (CPOS) Joins CNSI

The Center for Polymers and Organic Solids (CPOS) is a nano-science center with on-going research in areas such as the design of large molecules, the fabrication of multilayer thin film photonic devices, and the creation of nano-materials for achieving efficient organic bulk heterjunction photovoltaic cells. The length scales involved in the bulk heterojunction solar cells range from one nanometer (C60) to tens of nm (morphology features). The noticeable linkage between the CPOS and the CNSI is exemplified by the fact that the currently funded CPOS faculty members perform nanoscience research and are members of the CNSI. The transfer of this program in April of this year was a natural evolution in the growth of the CPOS to build a stronger connection to the CNSI both scientifically and operationally.

CPOS Co-Directors: Professors Guillermo Bazan and Fred Wudl
CPOS Founding Director: Professor Alan Heeger

The 3rd STAGE International Script Competition Winners Announced

STAGE - Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration, a collaboration between the Professional Artists Lab and the CNSI at UCSB, has selected Photograph 51, by Anna Ziegler as the winner of the 3rd STAGE International Script Competition for plays about science and technology which includes a $10,000 prize. (More...)