To discover creative solutions to the challenges of climate change, educators are increasingly turning to those who could someday be impacted the most: today’s children. In her three-minute overview ...

Researchers in Ania Bleszynski Jayich’s lab use a mechanical resonator to enable greater entanglement for potentially more powerful sensors. Most people think of diamonds as high-end adornments. Not ...

UC Santa Barbara doctoral candidate in physics, Skyler Palatnick, PhD ’26, has been named to Heising-Simons Foundation’s Science program’s new class of 51 Pegasi b Fellows, which he will perform at ...

Events on campus and off, including the inaugural Soltopia community festival in Isla Vista, are expected to be a big draw for UC Santa Barbara students over the first weekend of April — and to ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at UC Santa Barbara has been awarded a major research grant from non-profit Wellcome Leap to join an ambitious global effort investigating if, when and how the ...

In an ongoing effort to bring quantum science out of the tightly controlled lab environment and into the field, researchers from UC Santa Barbara and the University of Massachusetts Amherst have, for ...

For half the world’s population, the water in their drinking glasses comes from below them. Groundwater also supplies 40% of global irrigation projects. Alarmingly, more than a third of the planet’s ...

Fortifying staple foods with essential vitamins and minerals is a cheap and effective way to ensure that people have access to nutrients that may be lacking in their normal diets. These efforts have ...

René Weber’s early experiments involving video games and brain scanners were once met with deep skepticism. But now the UC Santa Barbara professor has been named an inaugural fellow of the Social and ...

Sabrina Strings, Ph.D. is Professor and North Hall Chair of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was a recipient of the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship ...

A new book by UC Santa Barbara’s Mona Damluji examines an unexpected intersection of culture and industry: the relationship between documentary filmmaking and the petroleum industry in the Middle East ...

For Eileen Boris, who has served as the Hull Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara for 25 years, retirement is on the horizon. At least technically. As a practical matter, however, she ...