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Wonderful news! The MRL's Angela Pitenis has received UCSB's annual Margaret Getman "Service to Students" award, recognizing faculty and staff that demonstrate an extraordinary commitment to the general growth and development of students and the quality of student life. Cheers!

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Our annual MRL Cheetham Lecture by Jeffrey Long! "Cooperative Adsorption and Gas Separations in Metal–Organic Frameworks". We were very happy to hold our Materials Research Outreach Program poster session as well, with work from many grad students and postdocs.

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for video archive of this event, please see https://t.co/lx6yT0RB4a

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Beginning next week: our second set of "Materials Mondays" - virtual presentations of materials research, aimed at all audience levels, presented by current and past researchers from the Materials Research Laboratory. For details see this flyer! https://t.co/KV1SvtXRBW

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Our annual Materials Research Outreach Program (MROP) has drawn to a close! MROP 2020 focused on organic-based macromolecules and polymers as well as inorganic materials. https://t.co/zaZz1Ykbir

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Materials Professor Chris Bates presented his groups research into block co-polymers in a talk titled “Plastic Confections” at the MRL’s 20th annual Science Teacher Workshop on March 15th! For more information on the event, see: https://t.co/RMzn53OBPX

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Slime science week!! MRL scientists spent a week exploring slime with the public at Santa Barbara's "MOXI" Science Museum - explaining the science of polymer cross linking, magnetic and thermochromic slime, and even how slime can respond to sound waves!

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Fun summer educational outreach at the MRL as Ram Seshadri discusses the future of solar energy and materials science with visitors from the Youth 2 Leaders Education Foundation shortly before they build their own solar cars!

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Is there anything cooler than revolutionizing Polymer Simulations? Not for us here at the UCSB MRSEC! Check out Glenn Fredrickson's recent write-up: https://t.co/uTX9ZfcygO

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UCSB MRSEC bringing Industry and academics together to share ideas - 1/31-2/1. #mrsec https://t.co/gl10WYDC8N

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Tresa Pollock has recently received three honors from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society! #mrsec