2026 News

The Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce TechTopia 2026 Summit, an immersive half-day gathering celebrating the Coast’s vibrant innovation ecosystem

ECE Professor Spencer Smith's SLAB lab-designed invention may expand what neuroscientists can learn about the brain

ECE Distinguished Professor, Steven DenBaars is honored by Optica for pioneering contributions to high-efficiency GaN LEDs and laser diodes

Hair-width LEDs could replace lasers — and ECE doctoral student, Roark Chao is helping make it happen

It’s not just Amazon and Google, The South Coast is seeing a range of tech companies taking hold — often sprung from the University of California, Santa Barbara

ECE Prof. B.S. Manjunath, is honored as the first Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair — one four endowed chairs in the department 

The Leiden Rankings rank the university among the top two U.S. public universities for scientific impact for 15 consecutive years.

A solar-powered table built by the UCSB chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is installed outside the Chemistry Building