UCSB — The Current — ‘UCSB physics professors John Martinis and Michel Devoret win 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics’
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Selected for the honor alongside UC Berkeley physicist and former advisor John Clarke, they were lauded for work that, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, “revealed quantum physics in action.”
Professor Mona Damluji’s “I Want You to Know” pairs lyrical verse with vibrant illustrations to help families talk openly about war, heritage and home.
Before arriving at UCSB this summer, Grappone held leadership positions at UCLA Library for 15 years, responsible for management, policy and planning across multiple departments.
Professor David Weld discusses the frontiers of quantum science, followed by behind-the-scenes tours of state-of-the-art laboratories and a reception to reconnect with faculty and alumni.
A screening of the documentary about former labor secretary Robert Reich is followed by a Q&A with director Elliott Kirschner and executive producer Heather Kinlaw Lofthouse, moderated by Alice O’Connor, director of the UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality and Democracy.
The author of “When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World” offers an on-the-ground perspective from a record-breaking fire season on a California hotshot crew, tracing the sociological, historical and economic forces that fuel today’s megafires.
