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Science Spotlights

Feb 20, 2010

Recently, neuroscientist and KIBM Co-Director Nicholas Spitzer led a conversation with two nanoscience pioneers – Stanford University's Kwabena Boahen and Harvard University's Hongkun Parkthree renowned researchers on how their once diverging disciplines are merged.

 
Feb 20, 2010

In southeastern Colorado, a land better known for crops and livestock may soon host the world's largest astrophysical detector. If an international consortium of scientists gets a green light from funding agencies, it will build an array for detecting cosmic rays.

 
Oct 12, 2009

In an effort to spur the development of new energy-related technology, the federal government has established 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers. Scientists affiliated with the Kavli Prize or Kavli Institutes play leading roles in three of these EFRCs. Located at the California Institute of Technology, Columbia University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, here is a look at these researchers and their centers.

 
Sep 28, 2009

John Bowers is the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also leads UCSB’s Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE). Founded in 2008, Bowers has helped the Institute get off to a fast start. In April 2009 it was awarded a $19 million grant in federal stimulus funds to host of one of the federal government’s new Energy Frontier Research Centers.