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Technology Management, a Department within UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering, has welcomed two additional students to its growing Ph.D. in Technology Management program. Fares Ahmad and Brandon Lepine bring unique insights into their scholarship, including leadership experience within the technology sector.

Technology Management Assistant Professor Jessica Santana has been awarded the prestigious Hellman Fellowship from the Society of Hellman Fellows. Made possible by a $125M gift from the Hellman Fellows Fund, this endowed program provides research funding to promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their chosen field. Many Hellman Fellows go on to become department chairs, award-winning researchers, and MacArthur “genius” grant recipients. 

Funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has been granted to support research led by Ph.D. candidate Danielle Bovenberg. Bovenberg will lead the research overseen by principal investigator Stephen R. Barley, Professor of Technology Management, and her research aims to understand the contributions that people in specialized technical staff roles make to science. 

Technology Management Professor Paul Leonardi has been appointed Department Chair by UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering Interim Dean Tresa Pollock. Leonardi begins his appointment on July 1, 2022, and succeeds Professor Kyle Lewis, who has served in this capacity for the past five years. Professor Lewis will continue to conduct research and teach at the graduate level within the Technology Management Department. 

Professor Tripsas, a Professor of Technology Management in the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, is a leading management scholar whose research focuses on the transformation of industries by new technology. Her important contributions have earned her the 2022 TIM Distinguished Scholar Award from the Academy of Management Technology and Innovation Management Division (TIM).

Pitching its optical technology for early detection of urinary tract infections (UTIs) to help save lives, improve health, and reduce costs, Metabowlite won UC Santa Barbara’s 23rd Annual New Venture Competition (NVC) Finals, taking home the $10,000 First Place Award. The event represents the culmination of the Technology Management (TM) Department’s rigorous eight-month technology-business-plan competition that is open to students from all disciplines at UCSB.

Technology Management, a Department within UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering dedicated to research and education at the intersection of engineering, information, and social sciences, announces the placement of its first doctoral student, Virginia Leavell, at the University of Cambridge. Ms. Leavell has recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Organisational Theory and Information Systems Group (OTIS) within Cambridge Judge Business School.

After more than 20 years under the auspices of UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering (COE), Technology Management has officially earned the name and status of a Department — one of six in the College of Engineering. Technology Management was originally born out of the COE as a mentorship program to support innovative and entrepreneurial students. 

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Virtual communities of practice invoke novel forms of boundary work that are newly visible via publicly recorded discourse and failure narratives. This boundary work has critical implications for occupational knowledge, membership, and stratification. Building on social exchange theorization of network gatekeeping, the author tests the assumption that centralized peers are more competitive gatekeepers, in that they react more negatively to remedial narratives.

Kyle Lewis, chair of UC Santa Barbara’s Technology Management Department, has been appointed the Christian A. Felipe Chair in Technology Management. Felipe established the chair in 2014 with a $1 million endowment that also helped launch the university’s first professional master’s degree program — the Master of Technology Management (MTM).

Sarah Lebovitz, Assistant Professor of Information Technology, University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce