UCSB lab gets $15M from Dow Chemical Co.
Latest news, TechnologyUC Santa Barbara’s Materials Research Laboratory has received up to $15 million from Dow Chemical Co. to establish a new institute to study materials that can further technological discovery. The recent five-year gift comes just weeks after the research lab received $20 million from the National Science Foundation to fund its studies through at least Read More →
Guest op/ed: Cuts to reimbursement will be devastating to state’s health care
Op/Eds, OpinionThe action of the California Legislature would put the Medicare and MediCal programs on life support.
Guest op/ed: Heavy burden of regulation is weighing economy down
Op/Eds, OpinionDestructive government fiscal and monetary policies are clearly hurting the economy, but overregulation is an unnecessarily self-inflicted wound that can quickly be cured.
Guest op-eds: Tech execs remember Steve Jobs
Latest news, Op/Eds, OpinionEditor’s Note: The Business Times asked technology executives in the region to share their thoughts on the death of Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder who died Oct. 5 at age 56. To contribute, email [email protected]. We’ll post more remembrances as they become available. Click here to read a column by Technology Editor Stephen Nellis on Read More →
Transphorm gets $3.6M grant
Green Coast, Latest news, TechnologyTransphorm, the Goleta-based energy efficiency firm backed by $63 million from Google and other investors, has received a $3.6 million federal grant to improve solar panels. Transphorm’s technology uses a semiconducting material called gallium nitride to drastically reduce heat waste in electronic systems. The grant from the U.S. Department of Energy went to Transphorm in Read More →
Guest op/ed: Cal Poly’s international business program closed, to detriment of students
Op/Eds, OpinionA separate international business program sends the message to students and employers that we value a global perspective in our curriculum.
