Chemical engineering major Anika Mahajan Jena and electrical engineering major Christopher Andrew Hariman, who are both entering their senior year in The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, have been named Tau Beta Pi Scholars, joining just 254 students nationwide selected by the world’s largest engineering honor society.... read more »

UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor James B. Rawlings has been named the recipient of the 2025 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, the highest recognition of professional achievement for U.S. control systems engineers and scientists. Presented by the American Automation Control Council, which is the U.S. national member organization of... read more »

UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor Rachel Segalman has been named the university’s new Vice Chancellor for Research (VCR), effective July 1. The announcement was made by Chancellor Henry T. Yang, marking the conclusion of a comprehensive national search led by a campus advisory committee co-chaired by materials professor ... read more »

The UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering’s 2025 Undergraduate Commencement is just days away for seniors. The ceremony will take place on Friday, June 13, at 1 PM on Commencement Green. Graduating senior Changxuan Yang will be part of a select group of students leading the class of 2025 into the ceremony as banner carriers. He earned the opportunity after receiving the... read more »

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara and Northwestern University have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion. The “mini prion” folds and stacks into strands, or fibrils, of misfolded tau proteins, which then transmit their abnormally folded shape to other normal tau proteins. Misfolded, prion-like proteins drive the progression of tauopathies... read more »