Wide Range of Talents

UCLA and UCSB are homes to a wide range of talent and ability, in both the administrative and research arenas. Faculty members from both institutions create an overlap among disciplines that are required to solve nanosystems problems and advance the work of the CNSI. A fundamental goal of the CNSI is to broaden and consolidate California's nanosystems expertise with new knowledge, innovative technology, and well-trained people. The University of California Los Angeles and Santa Barbara campuses provide both the expert faculty and the solid programs to produce the researchers of the future who will meet the CNSI goals. The University of California, Los Angeles offers:

• A strong integration of the Schools of Medicine and Engineering and the College of Letters and Sciences
• Broad strengths in mathematical sciences, engineering, chemistry and biomedical sciences
• Core facilities for DNA sequencing, microarrays, mass spec, X-ray crystallography, and NMR New program in Bioengineering
• New Department of Human Genetics
• New Department of Statistics
• NSF Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
• Department of Energy Laboratory for Structural Biology, the Crump Institute, the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Laboratory and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The University of California, Santa Barbara offers:

• A strong track record of interdisciplinary programs, especially in materials research, optoelectronics, polymer, biomemetric and biomolecular materials
• Highly ranked departments of Materials, Physics, Chemical Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering
• NSF Materials Research Laboratory
• Center for Solid State Lighting
• NSF Institute for Theoretical Physics
• New Graduate Program in BioEngineering