UC Santa Barbara's science faculty includes four Nobel laureates (in chemistry and physics) and numerous elected members or fellows of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. More than twenty of our young faculty members have active Faculty Early Career Development Awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The campus ranks 3rd in the country—behind Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology—in the percentage of its assistant professors who receive prestigious research awards from the NSF and three private foundations. These organizations—the Arnold and Mabel Beckman, David and Lucile Packard, and Alfred P. Sloan foundations—award fellowships in science and engineering to researchers early in their faculty careers.
Open Endowed Chairs
All endowed chairs are currently filled.
Endowed Chairs
E. Khashoggi Industries, LLC Chair in Letters and Science
Distinguished Professor
