UCSB alumna and MIT coordinator for the ICB, Professor Angela Belcher will present, From Nature and Back Again: Giving New Life to Materials for Energy, Electronics, the Environment and Medicine. In addition to Professor Belcher’s recent recognition by Scientific American she is the recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation "genius" fellowship for her extraordinary work in bionanotechnology. In 2005 she was one of ten women honored in Mass High Tech’s “10 Women to Watch” in technology and science.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 3:00 PM
1001 Engineering Science Building
Professor Masafumi Yohda
Department of Biotechnology and Life Science
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Tokyo, Japan
Peidong Yang, Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
May 22, 2007 at 3:00 pm
1001 Engineering Science Building
In the December 2006 issue Scientific American 50 [TECHNOLOGY LEADERS] Professor Daniel E. Morse, UCSB was recognized for his innovative research developing biologically inspired routes to nanostructured semiconductor thin films. Professor Angela M. Belcher was recognized for her pioneering use of custom-evolved viruses in synthesizing nano-scale wires and arrays.
Jacob Israelachvili, a professor of chemical engineering and materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been elected to the nation's most prestigious scientific organization, the National Academy of Sciences.
Joan-Emma Shea, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Larry A. Coldren and Linda R. Petzold, two members of the College of Engineering faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), were among the 76 new members and 11 foreign associates named to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) on February 13, 2004.
Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) have invented a new technique for "High Throughput Discovery of Transdermal Enhancers." The discovery represents a new way to move large molecules through the skin without harming the user.
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has named 16 new promising scientific researchers as the 2003 recipients of Packard Foundation Fellowships for Science and Engineering. Each Fellow will receive an unrestricted research grant of $625,000 over five years.
Researchers at the University of California report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a new method for detecting DNA, which could transform medical diagnostics. Currently, tests for the presence of DNA--to identify, for instance, the presence of a bacterium such as anthrax, or a virus, or a specific gene--require that the DNA be amplified or grown. The UCSB researchers combine the use of a lightemitting polymer with peptide nucleic acid (PNA) probes to make a test so sensitive that the costly DNA amplification can be reduced and perhaps eliminated.
