News

April 19, 2023

The California Research Alliance by BASF (CARA) brings together BASF experts with researchers from widely varied science and engineering disciplines at the US West Coast universities.

April 14, 2023

Prof. Valentine delivered the Physics Department Colloquium, presenting the group's work on "New approaches to sense forces and direct organization in model tissues"

April 7, 2023

Profs. Valentine and Cohen have a joint project to develop hydrogel materials for cellular force sensing, funded through a binational award of the US and Israeli National Science Foundations (NSF-BSF).  

March 27, 2023

Welcome new Postdoctoral Scholar Kenneth Cerdan Gomez!

March 22, 2023

Our 2022 Soft Matter paper on using high-throughput microscopy to study phase separating coacervates has been selected by the Editorial Board as a 2022 highlight!  Congratulations, team!

March 8, 2023

Congratulations to Younghoon Kwon, a finalist for the inaugural Emerging Soft Matter Excellence Award, which was presented by the Division of Soft Matter Physics at the American Physical Society March Meeting in Las Vegas

March 6, 2023

Lab members present at the annual American Physical Society March Meeting in Las Vegas, NV

February 19, 2023

Younghoon Kwon and Professor Valentine present at the Annual Adhesion Society Meeting in Orlando, FL

February 12, 2023

Yongkui Tang received the Heeger Fellowship Award!  Congratulations!

January 20, 2023

The Valentine Lab was excited to host Prof. Keng-hui Lin from the Institute of Physics within the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan for a visit to UC Santa Barbara.  Keng-hui's research spans a number of biological and soft material systems, and she is developing cutting-edge methods and materials for biomaterials science research.