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.

Held in partnership with the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics) and the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships (CSEP) at UCSB, Women in Photonics and Manufacturing Week also included tours of local Santa Barbara photonics companies, career talks from women working in the field of photonics and photonics outreach activities.

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.