Frank Leibfarth has been awarded the DSM Polymer Technology Award 2012 for his PhD research in the field of functional polymeric materials at the recent American Chemical Society national meeting. Frank has developed a platform technology in polymer chemistry based on the ketene organic...
News & Announcements
September 2012
August 2012
Ania Bleszynski Jayich awarded Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Ania Bleszynski Jayich, an assistant professor in physics at UCSB and an MRL Seed Project PI, has been awarded the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award is the highest honor the nation can bestow on a scientist or engineer at...
July 2012
The MRL was proud to host the 5th Future Faculty Workshop from July 15-17th, 2012. By specifically addressing broadening participation issues, over 40 graduate students and post-doctoral scholars from across the United States joined with 12 leading academics to create the leaders of tomorrow and...
The MRL wishes to congratulate Tresa Pollock on having been awarded the 2012 ASM International Gold Medal. The medal is the single highest honor bestowed by ASM on one of its members, for "outstanding knowledge and great versatility in the application of science to the field of...
June 2012
The MRL and ScienceLine would like to congratulate and acknowledge seven students who in 2011-2012 have excelled as contributors to ScienceLine. Thank you for your great work!
Peter St....
Congratulations to all our graduating seniors! 38 alumni of MRL's CAMP, RISE and CISEI programs are graduating from UCSB this spring and summer.
A number of MRL students and faculty members are travelling to Chalmers Technical University, Goteborg, Sweden, to attend and speak at a bilateral workshop onMaterials for Catalysis and Energy Applications in June 2012. On the UCSB side, the workshop is co-sponsored by MRL's International...
A number of MRL students and faculty members are travelling to Chalmers Technical University, Goteborg, Sweden, to attend and speak at a bilateral workshop on Materials for Catalysis and Energy Applications in June 2012. On the UCSB side, the workshop is co-sponsored by MRL's...
The MRL is proud to announce that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $3.3 million for the establishment of a collaborative research and education program between The University of Texas at El Paso and UCSB. As part of the national Partnerships for Research and Education in...
We are delighted to announce that MRL Director Craig Hawker has been awarded the 2012 Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Centenary prize was founded in 1947 to commemorate the centenary of the Chemical Society's founding in 1841, and is awarded to outstanding...