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News & Announcements

March 2013

The MRL is proud to congratulate graduate student John Lyons for receiving the Ken Hass Outstanding Student Paper Award from the American Physical Society for his paper “How localized acceptors limit p-type conductivity in GaN”.  The...

February 2013

The MRL was honored to welcome Dame Barbara Hay, Consul General for the United Kingdom, to give introductory remarks and open our 2nd International Workshop with Imperial College....

January 2013

The MRL is proud to announce a new brochure describing our Shared Experimental Facilities.  We hope that an overview of our diverse collection of materials characterization facilities will inform new users and...

December 2012

RET teacher Jesse Kasehagen's curriculum project was highlighted on the Bare Paint website community section.  please see:

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The MRL wishes to congratulate assistant professor Megan Valentine for receiving an NSF CAREER Award for her proposal 'An Integrated Approach to Neuron Mechanics: Deciphering the Functional, Mechanical, and Structural Interactions between Microtubules and Actin'. The CAREER Award is one...

UCSB MRL student Michael W. Gaultois and post-doctoral fellow Taylor D. Sparks were selected for a Best Poster Award at the 2012 Fall Materials Research Society (MRS) Meeting in Boston.  Their poster "Using electronic instability to optimize thermoelectric performance" was one of a handful...

November 2012

October 2012

MRL student, Chris Liman, and post-doc, Bertrand Tremolet de Villers were recently selected as Global School for Advanced Studies (GSAS) scholars and attended the 2012 Session on Organic Solar Cells. This GSAS sessions was funded by NSF and the National Science...

Bruker 300MHz Super-wide-bore MRI

The MRL has added another unique and powerful instrument to its Central Facilities, augmenting an already impressive lineup of materials characterization equipment openly available to researchers on campus and elsewhere. The Bruker 300 MHz (7 T) super-wide-bore (SWB) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (...

September 2012

This summer sixty students from around the world participated in research internships through the MRL. Students in the CAMP, CISEI and RISE programs presented their research results in a student colloquium held at UCSB on August 16, 2012.  http://...

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