Office of Research UC Santa Barbara
$209 MILLION TOTAL AWARDS From July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014, UC Santa Barbara received $163 M in direct and indirect federal funding*, which represents 78% of the total sponsored project awards.
AWARDS BY SPONSOR TYPE *Awards in the Indirect Federal category were given initially to another institution for a multiinstitution project, then flowed through for work performed at UCSB.
$15.5 M Industry
$50.3 M NSF $45.8 M DOD
$23 M Non-profit
$3.4 M Higher Ed $3.1 M State & Local Government
$138 M Direct Federal
$7.8 M Other
$1.3 M UC
$21.5 M NIH $7.6 M Energy
$25 M Indirect Federal*
$4.2 M NASA $8.6 M Other
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PROFILES IN RESEARCH See more highlighted research at research.ucsb.edu/profiles.
Music on the Edge David Novak, associate professor of music, explores the feedback, distortion, and electronic effects that make up the musical genre Noise in his book Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation.
This is Your Brain on Drugs Professors Tom Soh, Tod Kippin, and Kevin Plaxco work to determine the neurochemistry of addiction using a biosensor that tracks the concentration of specific molecules in vivo, in real time.
Large Wildlife Declines Hillary Young, assistant professor in ecology, evolution and marine biology, directly linked an increased risk of human disease to spikes in disease-carrying rodent populations resulting from large wildlife declines.
A Giant Step Forward Denise Montell, Duggan Professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, furthers the field of regenerative medicine with her research on anastasis, the surprising reversal of cell death.
Illegal Migrations John S.W. Park, professor of Asian American studies, explores the ongoing problems of status and illegality in American law and society in his book Illegal Migrations and the Huckleberry Finn Problem.
Big Data & Network Science Professor of computer science Ambuj Singh and several colleagues established a new network science graduate program to train students to be innovative researchers in the new era of Big Data.
UCSB BY THE NUMBERS For more information, please visit ucsb.edu.
AAU 6 Nobel Laureates since 1998
1st nationally in percentage of assistant professors receiving NSF CAREER awards
1 of 62 institutions in the American Association of Universities
8th in the world in Leiden Ranking of top 500 universities
Over 50% of undergraduate students participate in research
Over 100 interdisciplinary research centers and institutes
65+ startups based on UCSB technology
50% of inventions from UCSB are under a licensing agreement
Chancellor Henry T. Yang Executive Vice Chancellor David Marshall Vice Chancellor for Research Michael Witherell
1050 faculty members
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