The Art of Science is ready to unveil the winners of the 2017 competition!  Please join us Wednesday, March 15 4:00-5:00pm in the Elings Hall Lobby for an exciting mix of beauty, appreciation, and science.   

Many thanks to the UCSB College of Engineering Marketing Team for producing videos of our 2016 Art of Science competition winners! Watch them here: http://art-csep.cnsi.ucsb.edu/news

Girl Power

The Photonics Society at UCSB encourages women to study the science of light

By Tanya Das

Jell-O, water tanks and laser beams. Using these simple tools, four female scientists gave a group of 28 girls a lesson in light technologies and a primer in photonics, the science of light.

UCSB’s Family Ultimate Science Exploration promotes science and engineering through hands-on activity evenings designed for eighth-grade students and their families

Join us Thursday, August 11, 2016

9:30-11:30 AM

Corwin Pavilion at the University Center 

Program includes:

AIM Photonics Research Apprenticeship Program (AIM Photonics)

The California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP)

Cooperative International Science and Engineering Internships (CISEI)

Edison-McNair Scholars Program (Edison)

Early Undergraduate Research and Knowledge Acquisition (EUREKA!)

The next big development in the world of digital communications might come from a local community college or UCSB undergrad

Tomorrow’s photonics experts are getting a look at the leading edge of the technology today, thanks to the AIM Photonics Research Undergraduate Apprenticeship at UC Santa Barbara. The eight-week summer research program provides community college and UCSB undergraduate students with the technical and professional training that will enable them to transition into careers in the photonics industry.

On July 27th, 2016, the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships* and AIM Photonics hosted a lively Dinner with Industry for student in the PIPELINES, EUREKA, MARC, Gorman Scholars and AIM Apprenticeship program as part of their summer research internship professional training programming. Twenty-four scientist and engineer representatives from local companies, as well as the Navy Facilities Command, were in attendance (Agilent Tech/Dako, Apeel, Aurrion, FLIR, HP Labs, Lockheed Martin, Procore, Raytheon).

The award recognizes Arica for her service to the university through the Graduate Student Association and advocacy for graduate students.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science gives honorable mention to Tanya Das, ECE PhD Candidate, for her Education poster Assessment of an Undergraduate Engineering Design Capstone Course. Tanya worked with CSEP's Evaluation and Assessment Program Manager, Lubi Lenaberg on this project with the UCSB Mechanical Engineering Department.

The UC Santa Barbara chapter of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) has received the 2015 Outstanding Regional Network Role Model Award. This award marks the fourth in as many years bestowed upon the UCSB chapter by the national organization.

A grant from the National Institutes of Health launches a program to support undergraduates interested in careers in biomedical research.