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BEST OF 2013 FROM UCSB COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
With so many research advances and faculty awards this year, it was hard to choose just ten stories. Here are UCSB College of Engineering's Top 10 News Stories of 2013:
UCSB campus aerial view

UCSB #2 in the World

Leiden University in the Netherlands ranked UC Santa Barbara no. 2 in the world, second only to MIT, in terms of research impact in science and engineering.

Strides in Diabetes Therapeutics

Chemical engineering researchers in the Doyle Group completed a successful clinical trial of inhaled insulin paired with artificial pancreas technology.
Professor Ted Kim accepting his Oscar

Oscar-Winning Professor

Media Arts & Technology professor Theodore Kim won an Oscar for designing wavelet turbulence simulations used in blockbuster film special effects.

New "MBA" for Engineers

A well-established techpreneur seeding ground at UCSB, the Technology Management Program announced it will offer a Master's degree in 2014.
 
Blue LED technology

Cause of LED Droop Revealed

A solid state lighting research team at UCSB and École Polytechnique identified Auger recombination as the mysterious cause of LED efficiency droop.

Funds for Big Data Grad Program

A new graduate program will focus on network science and big data thanks to a $3 million IGERT award from the National Science Foundation.
$3 million Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award from the National Science Foundation, Singh and several co-principal investigators from a wide range of disciplines have established a new graduate program focused on network science - See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2013/013674/big-data-and-network-science#sthash.LiDAwuGK.dpuf
Professor John Bowers

The Promise of Silicon Photonics

UCSB's highest honor of Faculty Research Lecturer was bestowed on Professor John Bowers (right), whose talk on silicon photonics broke attendance records.

A Library in our Blood

By decoding the antigens our body has produced, a new method developed by Professor Patrick Daugherty could bring clarity to conditions like celiac disease.
 
Rod-shaped nanoparticles adhere to a tumor cell

Changing the Shape of Drugs

Bioengineering researchers in the Mitragotri Lab found that rod-shaped chemotherapy drug nanoparticles were 10,000 times more effective at targeting cancer.

Big Win for Biotech Research

UCSB's Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies was awarded a $48 million contract renewal from the U.S. Army Research Office, extending a decade of biology-inspired, unclassified research success.
$3 million Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award from the National Science Foundation, Singh and several co-principal investigators from a wide range of disciplines have established a new graduate program focused on network science - See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2013/013674/big-data-and-network-science#sthash.LiDAwuGK.dpuf

"We've had much to be grateful for this year. From all of us at the UCSB College of Engineering, we wish you happy holidays and a prosperous 2014."

- Rod C. Alferness, Auhll Professor & Dean, UCSB College of Engineering
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