Overview of Research at UCSB. Michael Witherell Vice Chancellor for Research

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1 Overview of Research at UCSB Michael Witherell Vice Chancellor for Research

2 Welcome to UCSB 2

3 Who supports the research? Extramural funding for FY2006 UCSB ranks 18th among U.S. universities in NSF research funding and 15th in DOD research funding. 3

4 The most important asset for UCSB research is the remarkable set of faculty members who lead the research effort.

5 5 Nobel prizes since 1998 Alan J. Heeger Physics and Materials 2000 in Prize in Chemistry Walter Kohn Physics 1998 Prize in Chemistry Herbert Kroemer Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials 2000 Prize in Physics David J. Gross Physics 2004 Prize in Physics Finn E. Kydland Economics 2004 Prize in Economics 5

6 Many other high honors for UCSB researchers UCSB's faculty also includes many elected members or fellows of the the National Academy of Sciences (25); the National Academy of Engineering (27); American Academy of Arts and Sciences (23); and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (38). 6

7 Excellence in both research and education Evelyn Hu exemplifies the complete UCSB professor. She is a national leader in both research and science education. Research Member of National Academy of Engineering Director of the California Nanosystems Institute Fellow of AAAS UCSB Faculty Research Lecturer Teaching NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars UCSB Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award Helped to established UCSB as a national leader in education and outreach programs that are integrated into research institutes 7

8 UCSB Assistant Professors among the 35 top young innovators in science and technology as chosen by MIT s Technology Review magazine: Heather Zheng, Computer Science 2005 cognitive radio: using software to dynamically detect and exploit unused radio frequencies Jeffrey W. Bode, Chemist 2006 a more versatile way to connect small protein snippets called peptides Ben Zhao, Computer Science 2006 self-organizing, self-healing network Infrastructure also one of 5 NSF Career award winners in 2006

9 More NSF Career Awards in 2006 Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Chemistry Structure-function-property relationships in charge-conjugated polymers Chandra Krintz, Computer Science Vertically integrated virtualization Jeffrey Moehlis, Mech. Engineering Dynamics of individual and coupled oscillators Jennifer Earl, Sociology The internet: activism and social movements 9

10 Research institutes & centers UCSB exemplifies the modern American research university. It is organized for research as a core of disciplinary departments, recruiting the best faculty and students, surrounded by a layer of research centers and institutes, each of which draws on several departments. We believe that no university has a better environment for interdisciplinary research. 10

11 The new CNSI building is open for innovations in energy efficiency spintronics quantum computation bio-nanofabrication nanophotonics and more

12 The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics was the first national research center established the National Science Foundation. It may still be the most successful. Some of this year s programs: Biological Switches and Clocks Physics of Galactic Nuclei Molecular and Cellular Machines Attosecond science Spintronics String Phenomenology

13 Neuroscience Research Institute The NRI research program includes projects addressing urgent problems in biomedical research: Alzheimer s disease Macular degeneration An inherited kidney disease The Center for the Study of Macular Degeneration is an important part of NRI. the leading cause of blindness over the age of 55 in North America. The macula is a cone-rich area of the central retina next to the optic nerve. 13

14 The Marine Science Institute UCSB has the advantage of a world-class marine research center right on campus. Physicists, chemists and molecular biologists study abalone, too. Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies on Coastal Oceans (PISCO) putting together physical and biological information about the California Coast 14

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16 Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies Understanding biological mechanisms in order to develop new advanced sensors, materials, information processing and network control systems Interdisciplinary teams of molecular biologists, chemists, physicists and engineers from university, industry, and army laboratories

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18 New discoveries and innovations

19 The glue within our bones The discovery of a glue in bones by Paul Hansma and collaborators (Fantner et al.) This glue has never before been considered in research on bone health, because its existence was not known. The August 2005 issue of Nature Materials. 19

20 The hybrid silicon laser Sept. 18, 2006 Researchers from UCSB and Intel announced the world s first electrically powered Hybrid Silicon Laser using standard silicon manufacturing processes. John Bowers Hybrid silicon laser die containing hundreds of hybrid silicon lasers. 20

21 Solid State Lighting Shuji Nakamura won the world s biggest technology prize, the 2006 Millennium Technology Prize for developing blue, green and white light-emitting diodes and the blue laser diode. He and Stephen DenBaars direct the Solid State Lighting and Display Center, which is working toward solid-state light with >80% of the theoretical energy efficiency luminous efficacy of 200 lm/watt 21

22 UCSB Consortium for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering Goals: 1. Understand the basic biology of embryonic and adult stem cell differentiation. 2. Discover new methods for stem cell growth, sorting and delivery. 3. Focus on generation of ocular cells for treatment of eye disease. Loss of vision is due to death of Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors in macula. Stem cells can be coaxed to differentiate into ocular cells, including RPE-like cells. 22

23 Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property The Office of Technology & Industry Alliances (TIA), manages the entire UCSB patent portfolio. We are using this conference to introduce to you some of the opportunities available in this portfolio, and to give some idea where the next UCSB technology breakthroughs are likely to appear. 23

24 Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property The TIA Office combines technology transfer with the management of industry-sponsored projects. By combining intellectual property licensing group and the industry contracts group, TIA has the flexibility to negotiate a wide variety of agreements. TIA helps to identify new research and licensing collaborations for the benefit of both the campus research program and our partners in industry. 24

25 Research at UCSB The quality of research at UCSB compares well with that done at top research universities around the world. UCSB research addresses many of the most important problems facing science and society today; is not constrained by departmental boundaries; and is done in close collaboration with other top research institutions around the world. New lipid molecule with promise for gene therapy 25

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