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2024 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellows

UC Santa Barbara graduate students Griffin Tong (Materials), Joshua Baston (Materials), Max Emerick (Mechanical Engineering) and Wesley Mills (Electrical and Computer Engineering) are among the 162 awardees of the 2024 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. Read more about the awardees here.


 

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2024 Mahsa Amini Fellow

In the News

Congratulations to Marzieh Gahvardband, our inaugural Mahsa Amini Fellow! Read more about Marzieh and what inspired her to pursue her graduate research here

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#GradStories: Danish Ebadulla

Learn more about Danish Ebadulla and his academic goals as a graduate student researcher at the DYNAMO Lab in the Computer Science Department. Watch his #GradStories here.

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Alumni Updates

UCSB alum Nora Kassner MA`17, Ph.D.`23, received a prestigious award from the Organization of American Historians. Read more about Kassner and her research here.