Giving undergraduate students a new way to explore environmental issues through the humanities, in conversation with the sciences and social sciences, UC Santa Barbara has launched a new minor in ...

Among the central goals in experimental quantum and materials sciences is to witness, study and eventually control interactions between atomic and subatomic particles. Though rapid and fleeting, these ...

Through the National Science Foundation’s Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (QLCI) program, several UC Santa Barbara researchers are poised to tackle hurdles on the road to building widespread, ...

Alumna Linda (La Kretz ‘77) Duttenhaver and her late father, Morton La Kretz, have made a major new gift to UC Santa Barbara to help establish a community hub for translating environmental research ...

For innovations with lasting impacts on society and for his influence on generations of inventors and entrepreneurs, UC Santa Barbara professor John Bowers, a pioneer in silicon photonics, received ...

The Department of Art is hosting weekly talks with a diversity of guest artists, campus faculty and distinguished alumni. Free and open to the public, the Visiting Artist Colloquium runs through early ...

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). The ...

Counting one’s blessings. Journaling. Saying a prayer. Writing a letter of appreciation. We can all intuit that practicing gratitude has positive effects on our lives — generally improving our outlook ...

Stand on the damp sand on a California beach and chances are you’re standing on top of an active earthworks site. Sand hoppers (Megalorchestia spp.), the tiny, shrimp-like creatures commonly found ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, University of Toronto and Zhejiang University have found that using artificial intelligence-based tools can help some disabled workers improve their performance and ...

The 1990s produced a lot of bad ideas, from grunge fashion to New Coke. But there’s one Leah Stokes particularly dislikes: the notion of a “carbon footprint.” You remember that one. To protect the ...

Economist and demographer Shelly Lundberg, a distinguished professor and Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at UC Santa Barbara, has won the 2026 Jacob Mincer Award by the Society of Labor ...