UC Santa Barbara introduces students to novel ways of thinking,
learning, and conducting research. UCSB’s 1,000-member faculty
includes five Nobel Prize winners and scores of elected members
of national and international academies and societies as well
as dozens of winners of Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships.
The campus is one of only 62 research-intensive institutions
elected to membership in the prestigious Association of American
Universities.
UCSB enrolls 20,000 students, about 2,900 of them at the graduate
level. The campus is home to 11 national centers and institutes,
eight of which are sponsored by the National Science Foundation,
including the Materials Research Laboratory, the National Center
for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, the Southern California
Earthquake Center, and the renowned Kavli Institute for Theoretical
Physics.
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UCSB currently has 23 BetaLED
streetlights installed as a test string and is evaluating converting
to LED streetlights campus-wide. Energy savings from the pilot
project are reported at 44 percent. |
