2026 News

ECE Prof. Steven DenBaars selected for two prestigious awards named for Holonyak, who in 1962 achieved fame for demonstrating the first semiconductor laser diode to emit visible light

ECE Professor James Buckwalter cited by the  U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for his “remarkable achievements as an academic inventor and a rising leader in his field”

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

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

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

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